To fly
you must be free
To be free
you must let go
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This poem was written for a Peace Project organized by Judy Fisk Lucas. I wrote it thinking of the flooding along the Mississippi a few years back, but it seems relevant every time another place falls to waters, like Nashville, just recently.
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For peace to reign on Earth, humans must evolve into new beings who have learned to see the whole first. ~ Immanuel Kant
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The note of the perfect personality is not rebellion, but peace. It will be a marvellous thing – the true personality of man – when we see it. It will grow naturally and simply, flowerlike, or as a tree grows. It will be as wonderful as the personality of a child. ~ Oscar Wilde
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Don’t think for a blue minute
peace lies in dreamy eyes of smiling Buddha
blinking across fields of pink blossoms.
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Four years ago Federico Hewson, an American performance artist living in Amsterdam, asked himself a hypothetical question: Would it be possible to bring Valentine’s Day, the day of Love, together with the cause of Peace, since Love and Peace are intimately connected, to create a celebration of inner, community, and global peace? From this query and his resounding positive affirmation, Valentine Peace Project was born.
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Poetry is an act of peace. Peace goes into the making of a poem as flour goes into the making of bread. ~ Pablo Neruda
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For 28 years silver-haired Mildred Norman Ryder wandered from place to place across America, walking over 25,000 miles to bring a message of peace to everyone she encountered. On her journey she took no money, personal belongings, or food. No cell phone, for in those days cell phones hadn’t been invented. What propelled her was confidence in the intrinsic kindness of human beings and trust in the goodness of life itself. She called herself Peace Pilgrim. Some have likened Peace Pilgrim to a Twentieth Century Saint Francis of Assisi.
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Envision a fragrant and expansive rose garden. It’s a quiet, sunny day, the sky is blue, and you are waiting for friends and colleagues to join you in a celebration of peace. It could be in Pacific Palisades or Sacramento, California, Atlanta, Georgia, Mexico City, or Assisi, Italy. What you share together here will keep alive the dream of peace on earth, goodwill toward men, the inspiration behind the creation of the International World Peace Rose Gardens.
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If you’re drivin’ down the road
You’ll miss the gnomes and the fairies
And you won’t get a chance
To eat the yummy blackberries.
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