Best Peacemaking Poems

...Each morning dawn brushes paint across the sky,
pastel colors to herald the rise of sun's golden eye.
He warms the earth. Dew's moisture he'll dry
before the world is waking.

Reflections of pin......

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...Insufficient knowledge for fully comprehensive consciousness
is also
more than sufficient ignorance
of our individual and collective participation
in comprehensive disease, despair, degeneration,......

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...Speak gently when you offer criticism,
but don't be so soft as to sacrifice the truth.
                      Rumi (M. Mafi, trans)

Speak gently when you offer your truth,
when you confront aggr......

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...Extending the benefit of the doubt
Means well at all times, looks for the positives
Peacemaking through careful listening; being upbeat
An effort to always work toward the greater good
Trustworth......

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..."And when he came to himself"
Luke 15:17

In another millennial time and Chinese/Russian place,
Taoism began as aphorisms and poetry
about political philosophy,
articulating a bicameral tension......

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...Dear Siblings Three,

At least three of us four
have survived this first round
of sharing our seeing Reds 
and our feeling Blues.

At this point
I imagine our eldest sister
reading with inte......

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...too god I pray she'll come back too me I actually beg him please. why did we have too fight that night neither one of us was in the right. now her I am on my knees crying so hard my nose is starting ......

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...Fieldwork is stellar, sexy, or strenuous and sad
Talking values, prolonging childhood
Is not for the faint hearted among S. Africa's "Coloured"
My "township" boasts about acting backward
Using wa......

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...If God
and gods
and other paternal powers
resource love,
and not hate

And if we believe
that love fades
with encroaching fear

Which can overwhelm 
personal
and professional
and economi......

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...There’s confliction and contradiction, 
         opposition inside a deep collision-
                  Encounters that lead to arbitration, 
the fear of making the wrong decision. 
   No rest......

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...TO: Police Officer Training Schools

FROM: Parents Political Cooperative for Healthy Climates

Thank you for listening to our mutual concern about escalating violence between our multicultural ch......

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...Is there any kind of art where it can drop a rival while smiling?

Checked with: HMS.COM: 17 syllables

Written: July 2, 2022

THE ART OF PEACE Poetry Contest
Sponsor......

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...Rob Brezsny reports
In 2004, San Rafael hosted a World Conference of Soul-Making
resulting in three schools for best PeaceMaking practices,
to which I will add one 
more democratically inclusive,......

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...So, she said,
much to everyone's BusinessAsUsual
StraightWhiteMale
surprise,

Sew,
I run into your aversion
to unpatriarchal Principles of Reversion
whenever I deeply listen
to your dark pas......

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...Lord, please tell us how we can be blessed?
Shall I tell you who of these are blessed?

Receiving the kingdom of heaven,
the lowly, poor in spirit are blessed.

Receiving solace, comfort, those......

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