Peace Poems
Gama
by Okunola iyanuoluwa
He tastes solitude
on Gama,
Savoury to his buds.
He is a bird,
Pearching hymns,
He is a fig
Among fronds.
The Abnormal Is Not Courage
by Jack Gilbert
The Poles rode out from Warsaw against the German
Tanks on horses. Rode knowing, in sunlight, with sabers,
A magnitude of beauty that allows me no peace.
And yet this poem would lessen that day. Question
The bravery. Say it's not courage. Call it a passion.
Would say courage isn't that. Not at its best.
It was impossible, and with form. They rode in sunlight,
Were mangled. But I say courage is not the abnormal.
Not the marvelous act. Not Macbeth with fine speeches.
The worthless can manage in public, or for the moment.
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The Life That I Have
by Leo Marks
The life that I have
Is all that I have
And the life that I have
Is yours
The love that I have
Of the life that I have
Is yours and yours and yours.
A sleep I shall have
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Epitaph
by Robert William Service
No matter how he toil and strive
The fate of every man alive
With luck will be to lie alone,
His empty name cut in a stone.
Grim time the fairest fame will flout,
But though his name be blotted out,
And he forgotten with his peers,
His stone may wear a year of years.
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The Home-Coming
by Robert William Service
My boy's come back; he's here at last;
He came home on a special train.
My longing and my ache are past,
My only son is back again.
He's home with music, flags and flowers;
With peace and joy my heart's abrim;
He got here in the morning hours
With half the town to welcome him.
To hush my grief, night after night,
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CRUSHED DREAMS
by Grace K N
Dreams are shattered,
No chance to mend the pieces.
Feelings, hopes all scattered,
A broken heart whose pain unease's
Left behind, hurt and vexed,
Trying to reason with the past.
Wondering of what comes next,
Curious how long the pain will last.
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Policy of Truth
by Elijah Dimitrios
A country,
They like to take it,
But democracy is not sufficient here,
This magic paradoxically does not help fox Herod,
But help to resist,
A big part of the population comes from a tradition of Christian orthodoxy,
Fathers' vineyard of unity,
Therefore king Ahab goes to Jezebel the queen,
On the throne, lodge Masonic,
She chooses two worst witnesses,
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Losing Our Humanity
by Lee-Ann Azzopardi
Time slips into my hand
Like a bottle thrown out to the sea
With a message that life is worth it
And with you, I'll be brave to shield us
From those who hate
With words of kindness
And outpouring of love that we overlooked
For sometimes, we we fail to remember
That we are human
And for that reason, we are prone to mistakes
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as the bugle fades
by Rikske Kessner
"ANZAC 2026"
A faint drift of camp‑smoke moves across the oval
as neighbours gather in a loose ring,
boots scuffing dew‑dark grass.
Someone reads from an old diary,
paper soft at the folds,
its words settle over us
like a weather front passing slow across the range.
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Nachtelijke momenten
by Mario Odekerken
De nacht ademt langzaam
en vult de kamer met stilte
die nergens op wacht.
Mijn gedachten dwalen
zachter dan het donker
dat alles omarmt.
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Frances Ellen Wat Harper (14 poems about Peace)
24 September 1825 – 22 February 1911 / Baltimore, Maryland -
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