Wage Peace

[anne stadler]

Please consider doing this.  Very important to raise this aspiration at this
time.  Love and blessings to all, Anne Stadler

The poem below, written in response to 9/11, articulates our collective
challenge. As yet, our human family has not succeeded in consistently waging
peace‹UNTIL NOW!  Will you help?

 
WAGE PEACE
 

Wage peace with your breath.

Breathe in firemen and rubble,

Breathe out whole buildings and flocks of redwing blackbirds.

Breathe in terrorists

and breathe out sleeping children and freshly mown fields.

Breathe in confusion

and breathe out maple trees.

Breathe in the fallen

and breathe out lifelong friendships intact.

 

Wage peace with your listening: hearing sirens, pray loud.

Remember your tools: flower seeds, clothes pins, clean rivers.

Make soup.

Play music, 

Learn the word for thank you in three languages.

Learn to knit, and make a hat.

Think of chaos as dancing raspberries,

Imagine grief as the outbreath of beauty or the gesture of fish.

Swim for the other side.

 

Wage peace.

Never has the world seemed so fresh and precious.

Have a cup of tea and rejoice.

Act as if armistice has already arrived.

 

Celebrate today!

 

--by Judyth Hill, 

 

SIGN UP??  If you want a yard sign with the words ³Wage Peace² to show your
commitment, you can go to your local printers to get them or bumper stickers
silkscreened.  In the Seattle area, these folks will help:

Sign Up  in Bothell, WA.  424-488-9247   (designed this one).

Boruck Printing, 72nd and Greenwood, Seattle WA,  206-522-8500
(Silkscreened takes seven days.)
                           


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