VOTES FOR WOMEN!
VOTES FOR MEN!
by Kathy Randle
08.03.2007


          i.
VOTES FOR WOMEN?
by Kathy Randle
08.03.2007


What do they think
They are doing?
Shouting, screaming; most unlady-like

They should be at home
Washing. ironing, looking after kids
AND making themselves beautiful
For their husbands.

What do they know of politics?
That's men's work
Not suitable for women's brains.

Go home and let your
Better halves do the dirty work
Of running the world.
Women having the vote
Will make it worse.

           ii.
VOTES FOR MEN?
by Kathy Randle
08.03.2007


What do they think
They are doing?
Shouting, screaming; most unmasculine

They should be at home
Washing. ironing, looking after kids
AND making themselves handsome
For their wives.

What do they know of politics?
That's women's work
Not suitable for men's brains.

Go home and let your
Better halves do the dirty work
Of running the world.
Men having the vote
Will make it worse.

first performed with the Purple Poets at the West Euston Time Bank's International Womens Day Dance, Dick Collins Hall, March 10th 2007


THE WOMAN
by Mohammed Serajul Islam Molla
08.03.2007


Yes, God created Woman,
But She is the creator of human beings.
Keeping in her womb for nine months
---- suffering, spending sleepless nights
for the well-being of the baby
she carries ---
She is the wife, mother first --
She is the politician, poet, heroine
Warrior like Bodecia ---
Without the help of The Woman
No body can live.


first performed with the Purple Poets at the West Euston Time Bank's International Womens Day Dance, Dick Collins Hall, March 10th 2007

For WOMEN
by Carol Moon
written 17.02.2006

The Suffragettes
The South American women saving a forest
Sacharov's wife sharing lonely exile
Sharansky's girl waiting, waiting
Mothers loving without condition.
But, isn't all this about love?

First performed at the  International Women's Day Celebration, Dick Collins Hall, West Euston, 11.08.2006.

Norah
(a friend of ours
who was also a poet
who has gone to her rest)
by Kathy Randle
March 2006

What an inspiration!
She lived a hard life
Always a cheerful smile
And word of consolation

After an operation
That went wrong
"Call me Nelson," she'd say
In every conversation.

An ordinary cleaner by profession
But an extraordinary spirit
Who all her troubles
Full of joy and determination

Someone to lift the population
Who will be remembered
With gratitude and love
By many of our generation.

First performed at the  International Women's Day Celebration, Dick Collins Hall, West Euston, 11.08.2006.

Grace
by Babushka
March 2006

Spirit of Love,
There is a place
For Everyone
Within Thy Grace

First performed at the  International Women's Day Celebration, Dick Collins Hall, West Euston, 11.08.2006.