For the past few years on the occasion of Valentine’s Day, Images For Renewal has featured articles about Federico Hewson’s Valentine Peace Project. The Project continues to engage young writers from across the country and the world who have been invited again in 2013 to submit poems of love and peace. Each of these poems is photocopied and attached to donated fair trade roses, which, on February 14th, are distributed by Valentine Peace Project volunteers to the general public in various cities across the globe.
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Deep peace of the still waters to you.
Deep peace of the gentle winds to you.
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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
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
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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by Viktoria Vidali on March 26, 2010
in Quotations
Poetry is an act of peace. Peace goes into the making of a poem as flour goes into the making of bread. ~ Pablo Neruda
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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