POEMS FOR PEACE
Written for the People of the Earth in Spring 2022
1.When?-
When all about you have lost their head,
When alone amongst the living and the dead,
When all that is written has been read;
When there's nothing more that needs be said,
When the price of freedom has been paid,
When every decision has been made,
When Fate has composed the final symphony;
When there's nothing left but History...
When day dawns upon truth and democracy,
When every nation has fulfilled its destiny,
When every beginning has found its end,
When silence remains your only friend...
When life is more than tragic futility
When all can love our common humanity...
WHEN?!
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2. THERE!
Guardians of these desert lands,
Like ships pass by without permissions or demands
In this dangerous time we all live in the moment
- Tomorrow is a distant vision on television
-And yesterday a memory- a word- a token…
The secrets are written in the golden sunrise
And the changing colors of radiant sunsets -
THERE…
In the stillness beyond the wind!
THERE…
In the TOTAL silence!
Beyond the body-
beyond the mind…
THERE…
We find our true nature in those whom we most LOVE!
THERE… our future in the Clouds of the Heavens Above…
The wind and the waves continue their dance…
Their songs of delight -and of romance and of trance
Somehow LIFE carries on in this game of chance…
THERE… as we grow – as we struggle- we fight for life…
For FREEDOM – For Light, for LOVE...for JUSTICE..for PEACE!
THERE.
Our Winters Solace in the Garden spring of our rebirth…
THERE…
Our Seeds of HOPE buried in the bosom of Mother Earth…
We germinate in the nursery of our Adamic birth…
There with the Children of the Universe…
...
and so we begin anew…
THERE.
April 2022 Ras Abugalum ,Sinai
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3. Death?
I have thought about where on this planet I may find peace…
DEATH?
And there are so many places around…
My question is WHO…. Or WHAT… do I love
– and how can I best express it?
I have honestly found my Supreme peace alone-
For it is in HOPE that I find my eternal rest…
- It can be on a clifftop overlooking a full moon bright upon the Indian ocean at night…
Reflecting on the blackwater silver-white.
Or in the smell of Jasmine amongst olive orchards in the Greek Mediterranean Light…
Or in the Golden Silence of the Mountains of the Sinai -
Or in the smile of a complete stranger…
I have thought it is good to hold the hand of someone you Love …
- As you disappear into the Cloud of Unknowing in Eventide twilight.
I have Wandered in the Sleep of Sleeps in the Million star hotel…
- no doors-no walls-no ceilings…
just thoughts-just windows-just feelings…
Or in the pallette of colours in Namaqualand in spring…
or in the Sunrise of Lake Kivu in Cyangugu after a raging storm...
or b'neath Kanchenjunga in Sikkim upon Buddhas Lap...
or just in the back seat of a taxi in Johannesburg -
or on a dirt road on a bus in the Amazon forest..
No turning back. Just relax.
Death?- the end…?
All places – all faces… appear like a dream..
All graces- all traces...disappear in a scream…
or not.
“Go bravely then into the Dark without fear or fight…
Go bravely then into the Eternal Light”…
For when this time comes …
There remains only LOVE.
Divine Love beyond your Greatest Imagination…
And this, my friend is GOD... meeting you at the Graduation!
Death ….where is your sting now?
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4. Like Time
Summer is upon us suddenly – without warning...
But in the North – it is still bitterly cold!
And in some places the snow has melted to show ..
The Promise of a better tomorrow.
What we all fear is near.
And yet it is far far away.
The winter is coming when No Man shall work,
No tears shall cry.
For Peace to come …
We all must become ONE.
ALL ONE.
No Jew, no Gentile…
Just One.
The Sun sets upon this Desert Green
The moon rises upon this Magic Scene..
The Wedding feast has come , so too the "Dance of the Dreamers…"
the Daughters and the Sons…
Are you ready?
You singers- you weavers- you poets- you visionaries-
you storytellers… you healers...you beautiful people.
For pain is a deep -deep Ocean-
And Love a deeper Emotion…
The gift is given..the Sanctity… the Blessing..the Sacred…
- the transcendence beyond this complex World -and these Earthly games…
for all that has mattered… when all is shattered… is gone…
Gone with the Wind!
Broken … Bespoken and Unspoken …
Lost and Forgotten in this pantomime…
LIKE A PICTURE
LIKE A SIGN
LIKE A RAINBOW
LIKE TIME!
The Birthing of a New World is coming !
Soon and very soon…
And suddenly it comes!
And there is no return…
no way back...
Suddenly … it is here…
-it is BORN !!!
Like a Picture, like a Sign , like a Rainbow… Like TIME!
Like a Picture, Like a Sign, Like a Rainbow...
Like Time.
………………………………………………………… 5. A Question
Are we Artists or Slaves…?
Slavemasters or Liberators …?
Warriors or Peacemakers?
Brother burning Brother…
And another… and Another…
Foot on the Head…
Alive or Dead?
A question… a question.
A sentence to be said. …………………………………………………………
6. The Circle of Life
The cold stone reality of Poverty-
Is defined by the abscence of Affinity...
For once when we were full of passion -
And the fires of emotion ,
Like crashing waves upon the Ocean-
Time was Infinite!
But now every minute,
of every hour...we watch-
And wait for the radiance of the Golden Effervecent Sunset -
Ever Present...
The life of giggling
and laughter laps...
For the distant destination -
The further we go,
The farther we go.
In this...-
I promise you is my Clarity-
The moment of Certainty...
The place I see...
When the hunter captures her prey.
Until then...
The lion sits...
And is patient....
Watching ...
Keeping still...
- and waiting...
For release.
This is the circle of life.
The sun illuminates
Time anticipates -
Man ruminates-
The place permeates-
The poet meditates -
The paper gravitates-
The pen hesitates...
History terminates.
It is the soft ink on the paper ,
That records thoughts
-of the experiences,
But now is the Moment -
and now is NOW!
The evening comes,
and the Night draws Nigh...
The Tide of Time is High,
And light changes by second...
colder or warmer...
the fish and the fisherman,
will eat and- will celebrate -
another moment ,
another day has gone ...
gone...for and ever gone.
Epochs created,
Civilisations decimated,
Ideas fascinated,
Futures formulated,
Decisions disseminated...
the Circle of Life teaches us,
there is no such thing as religion;
-it is only the Hunter,
and the Hunted...
-self preservation,
-self gratification,
-self absorbsion....
-self masturbation....
self.
the golden sunset changes
from orange to pink-
and then becomes a liquid gold, over the Minarets of Istanbul.....
Our ferry has landed ...
and the temporary respite from city life ends...
and so we join the rush hour madness friends...
as the Muzzin sings.
in this Circle of Life ,
the wheel carries on turning ...
the sun has now set.
and tomorrow is another day.
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7. a Song for Polina
The resonance of your voice is like Golden Honey ...
Dripping into my HEART ❤ !!!
-Your image of translucence touches my Dreamtime .
with electricity...
When the stars were placed ...
In the Nightsky 🌙
I searched the Heavens for yours.
You shine Within me -
and Without...
The Ages cannot express distance -
Nor can Time express Infinity -
But when I search your eyes -
I find what it is that I seek-
In my soul!
All the Words ever written;
All the Beings that have been...
All the Suns that have shone...
Still cannot SAY - or BE or FEEL -
What I am for you.
For this love is free ...
and seeks to Be...and to See-
YOU!
For we are but Human ,
And our flesh is but weak. ..
Our minds limited...
Our embrace prohibited.
But when the Spirit is unlocked
Our essence is reconnected
Within the Ocean ...
That is the Universe.
You fill me with Perfection
Completion...Resurrection...
For Knowledge is Knowing
And Wisdom brings Peace!
As the Mother protects her young
So does Our Love ...Make us One.
a song for Polina-
a song for Someone-
an Ode to the Midnight Sun
For our Song has just begun.
So does our Love make us One.
So does our Love make us One.
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