LAPKAT - 'TELL OUR DAUGHTERS' WARRIOR POETS MIX

Section of my set for the 'Warrior Poets' women in hip hop film screening night at Botanique, Brussels, 22 Sept 2012. For Gia and Lise, the Boogiewomen of Belgium

Inside........
Girls song for her grandmother - Dorothy Whitehorse Delaune
General Generations + Look At This - A Tribe Called Red A Tribe Called Red
Tell Our Daughters by Besmilr Brigham from 'United States of Poetry' circa 1995 http://www.worldofpoetry.org/usop/word.htm#besmilr
Tales of Men - Akua Naru feat. African Footprint http://www.akuanaru.com
Il ètait une fois dans l'est - Watcha Clan Watcha Clan
Still I Rise - Maya Angelou
I mine you - Bissecta BISSECTA
O - Matteo Buratti / Buro/S-Trip Poetry feat. Co'Sang e Sofia Buconi http://www.strippoetry.it
Amy Jotna - Sister Fa http://www.sisterfa.com
Tremor vs Arianna Puello - Villa Diamante villadiamantezzk
There U Go - Mei Saraswati Mei Saraswati
Märchenerzähler - Say & Sounds by Hjerlmuda eXPerimentator _me_

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Here is the poem by Besmilr Brigham:

Tell Our Daughters
each is beautiful
a woman's life
makes it (that awareness)
through her touch
descendants
of strict age
set against vanity

not secure in loveliness

a girl is born
like a little bird opening its wing
she lifts her face
in a down of feathers

a rose
opens its leaves
with such a natural care
that we give words for
petal deep
in the imagination
a word becomes
a bitter thing
or a word is
an imagination

tell our daughters they are
fragile as a bird
strong as the rose
deep as a word

and let them make
their own growing time

big with tenderness
the fire of love

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(..... By the way, I really wish I could tell you who the artist responsible for the image is, but I don't know. She is on a wall in Johnston Street Fitzroy (Melbourne) - she has always stopped me in my tracks. I'd love to find out.)