|Antonio Balestra, Justice and Peace Embracing, ca. 1700|
Mercy and truth meet together: righteousness and peace kiss each other.
If you look at human society, it is very easy, of course, to compare our warfare and territoriality with the chimpanzee. But that's only one side of what we do. We also trade, we intermarry, we allow each other to travel through our territory. There's an enormous amount of cooperation. Indeed, among hunter-gatherers, peace is common 90 percent of the time, and war takes place only a small part of the time. . . .
Without peace, all other dreams vanish and are reduced to ashes.
If you cannot find peace within yourself, you will never find it anywhere else.
She wanted so to be tranquil, to be someone who took walks in the late-afternoon sun, listening to the birds and crickets and feeling the whole world breathe. Instead, she lived in her head like a madwoman locked in a tower, hearing the wind howling through her hair and waiting for someone to come and rescue her from feeling things so deeply that her bones burned.
|Peaceable Kingdom by Edward Hicks (1834)|
Midweek Motif ~ Peace
Yearning for peace, I ask:
Where do we have peace in our lives? How can we ~ as humans, as poets ~ help peace spread? To whom would we give a peace prize?
Your Challenge: Make peace the mood and motif of your new poem. Here is more food for thought:
|John Lennon peace mural wall, Praha.(1993)|
by Rabindranath Tagore,
(Recipient of the 1913 Nobel Prize in Literature)
(translated by Sumana Roy)
Grief there is, and Death; Partings char.
Flows life ceaselessly, beam the sun, moon and stars
In striking tints and hues Spring shows up in bowers.
Waves ebb waves rise.
Wilt flowers and bloom buds.
Decays not, ends not, never ever depletes,
Unto that wholeness the mind begs a retreat.
(The Song issung by Lopamudra Mitra)
Please share your new poem using Mr. Linky below and
visit others in the spirit of the community—Next week Sumana's Midweek Motif will be "Rising Above."