Hello Everyone,
Thank you to everyone who have contributed to the #PoetsForPeace collaboration. We have reached a milestone of 100 contributions today! The collaboration is open till August 31, let’s continue to stand united for peace!
Thank you all!
PoetsForPeace Team
forgottenmeadows 
July 31, 2016 at 6:28 pm
Reblogged this on The Poetry Channel.
July 31, 2016 at 6:39 pm
Reblogged this on Martha L Shaw – Poet, Writer, Artist.
July 31, 2016 at 6:41 pm
Thank you so much for the reblog 🙂
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July 31, 2016 at 7:38 pm
Well done. I love hearing the voices and the poetry.
Thanks for hosting Neha.
July 31, 2016 at 7:39 pm
Reblogged this on Writing Wings For You and commented:
This is an awesome collaboration of poets from around the world. We’d love to hear from you. It’s open until the end of August. Please join us.
July 31, 2016 at 7:56 pm
Thank you Marie!
July 31, 2016 at 7:47 pm
I forgot to leave you my other one in the comments.
https://writingwingsforyou.com/2016/07/31/rockabye-poets-for-peace/ Thank you Neha.
July 31, 2016 at 7:49 pm
Hi Marie can you please post the poem in the comments and not just the link, thank for sharing and will add soon 🙂 it is easier to take the poem when I update…cheers to peace my friend
July 31, 2016 at 7:52 pm
Reblogged this on Words for Life and commented:
Become apart of #Poetsforpeace and submit your poem to spread peace around the world!
July 31, 2016 at 7:56 pm
Thank you for the reblog my friend!
July 31, 2016 at 8:04 pm
You’re welcome!
August 1, 2016 at 3:13 am
Hi
I wish to submit a few poems. Can you please let me know where to send them?
August 1, 2016 at 8:24 am
Please paste them in the comment section thank you for your interest 🙂
August 6, 2016 at 8:29 am
Reblogged this on forgottenmeadows and commented:
And we are up to 126! #PoetsForPeace International collaboration of poets around the world uniting for peace!
August 8, 2016 at 4:07 pm
Hello. I’ve been super busy. My apologies for not posting in comments sooner. I will make a separate post for my friend who is not a blogger, but you can link her on my page. She’s an artist trying out her writing wings, and it’s beautiful. (Below is mine from last week.)
Rockabye baby
When the wind blows
It brings messages of hate
Don’t listen my baby; don’t listen
Rockabye baby
When the wind blows
it touches with dark shadows
Don’t touch my baby; don’t touch
Rockabye baby
When the wind blows
It brings the taste of innocent blood spilled
Don’t taste my baby; don’t taste
Rockabye baby
When the wind blows
It brings the sight of
Flags waving at half mast
Acknowledge, but don’t linger your gaze my baby; don’t linger.
Please don’t hold on to any of these messages
Because the real world isn’t really all this negativity and darkness.
The real world, my baby, is so much more
Than the feedback from the news or the people enamored with it.
When the bough breaks
It is you my baby who will make
The difference
It is you who can change it.
Bring your sweetness
Bring your joy
Bring your positivity
And radiate your messages
Of love and hope
Out into the world.
Be you my baby
Be you
August 8, 2016 at 4:29 pm
Here is my friend Gloria Escobedo.
Thank you!
The wonder of it all
Upon arrival I walk to our favorite spot
As we have done so many times before
The sun with all its glory soon fades away
In its place black clouds come creeping in.
As if on a mission they’ve blown in overhead quietly and unnoticed
Instantly the sky is covered in night
In the distance shadows and sprinkles of twinkling lights
Stars, above all around then one by itself strong and bright
Some in formation as if at attention
Others – hundreds, the likeness of many loose diamonds
Delicately shimmering so very distant – lifetimes away
Before me is water as far as the eye can see
An ocean so vast so big so proud with its mighty waves
The water seems to go on forever
until into the bottom of the sky it respectfully tucks in its skirts
Choppy waves clap and flap then away they rush again
It is a windy night
The smell of salt water in the air
Out goes the shrimp clinging tightly to the hook
Destined for the perfect catch
Hello Mr. Sand trout
A golden beauty up late!
The seagull flutters by laughing dipping but not finding
He wont give up though
He knows all too well that soon he’ll get his.
Upon a happenstance I look up
What is it moving so quickly barely catching my eye
Oh wow a shooting star!
Look, darling! A shooting star!
O wait- its gone
how quickly it vanished almost as a vapor.
Then I ponder on all this beauty.
And think of the whole world of beautiful places I’ve yet to see
Alas many lifetimes could not suffice!
Looking around busied bodies about their business
Can it be true no one stops to take in the beauty
Then I wonder if per chance a person might say
That all these elements just happened per chance
Burning embers landing somewhere through flight?
In no way could one thus say!
Wait!!! Look up, look around for the very things of this earth
They testify of a Creator.
Alas, alas to no avail
No one cares to seek, to find, to know
So much beauty in life and still the word resounds in my head
The fool has said in his heart there is no God.
Awake to life, get to know the Creator, enjoy His creation
and the wonder of it all.
August 8, 2016 at 4:34 pm
Ooops. I tried to delete the one above. I have the corrected version here.
Gloria Escobedo:
The wonder of it all
Upon arrival we walk to our favorite spot
As we have done so many times before
The sun with all its glory soon fades away
In its place black clouds come creeping in.
As if on a mission they’ve blown in overhead quietly and unnoticed
Instantly the sky is covered in night
In the distance shadows and sprinkles of twinkling lights
Stars, above all around then one by itself strong and bright
Some in formation as if at attention
Others – hundreds, the likeness of many loose diamonds
Delicately shimmering so very distant – lifetimes away
Before me is water as far as the eye can see
An ocean so vast so big so proud with its mighty waves
The water seems to go on forever
until into the bottom of the sky it respectfully tucks in its skirts
Choppy waves clap and flap then away they rush again
It is a windy night
The smell of salt water in the air
Out goes the shrimp clinging tightly to the hook
Destined for the perfect catch
Hello Mr. Sand trout
A golden beauty up late!
The seagull flutters by laughing dipping but not finding
He wont give up though
He knows all too well that soon he’ll get his.
Upon a happenstance I look up
What is it moving so quickly barely catching my eye
Oh wow a shooting star!
Look, darling! A shooting star!
O wait- its gone
how quickly it vanished almost as a vapor.
Then I ponder on all this beauty.
And think of the whole world of beautiful places I’ve yet to see
Alas many lifetimes could not suffice!
Looking around busied bodies about their business
Can it be true no one stops to take in the beauty
Then I wonder if per chance a person might say
That all these elements just happened per chance
Burning embers landing somewhere through flight?
In no way could one thus say!
Wait!!! Look up, look around for the very things of this earth
They testify of a Creator.
Alas, alas to no avail
No one cares to seek, to find, to know
So much beauty in life and still the word resounds in my head
The fool has said in his heart there is no God.
Awake to life, get to know the Creator, enjoy His creation
and the wonder of it all.
August 8, 2016 at 8:29 pm
Thank you so much Marie for sharing will you please share it in the actual collaboration post along with your friend’s blog address if she has one 🙂