Peace World Poems

LAO TZU ENGLISH TRANSLATIONS IV

The Roots of Turbulence
by Lao Tzu, translation by Michael R. Burch

Heaviness lies at the root of lightness;
stillness begets turbulence.
Thus the nobleman...

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You hurt the bees but you want the honey
You'll kill the children but ask them to make money
You take our hope but want us to...

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I thought that I was living in modern times but something dynamic has crossed my path and I found myself gliding
Between the earth and the...

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No prophesy, epiphany or convoluted scheme
Forecast it’s not. For sure, no joke. And isn’t a pipe dream
But something tells me, instinct chimes, we are so...

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Pandemic warring,
Human nature’s volcanic
Lava flow of hate;
Scorching love with agony:
Her world’s peace flowing away:-
...

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Sitting attentively on a rickety park bench
My thoughts as deep as an ocean trench
People scurrying aimlessly with their daily lives
In time they’ll fade too, into...

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So much unrest
Mankind seems to be failing the test
We are not at our best
Crime soaring
Voices roaring
Everyone wants to fight
Doesn't seem right
I don't understand
This is not...

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I have my shelter from the elements
my haven away from world madness 
my well of peace and harmony
where it’s safe and i feel free
within its...

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Judaism
The Mitzvah—God blesses every good deed
Thousands of years old
God Yahweh made a covenant with Abraham 
that if Abraham and his people the Hebrews 
Obey Him,...

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And still his death haunts webbed wide world post American Civil War

Preface: On the evening of April 14, 1865, while attending a special performance of...

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Beneath a sky once soft and blue,
Now painted smoke, a darker hue,
The cries of children split the air
A lullaby of deep despair.

The earth, it shakes...

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In a corner of the world where silence finds its voice,
where every blade of grass carries an ancient story,
I wander among the shadows of time,...

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she whispers to the bluebird
early every afternoon
whispers in its ear and
it listens as if it understands

she dreams of peace
and they talk for hours
probably devising machinations
to...

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in a nook above the city
where i hang my hat
i hide away faceless
and watch the earth
hurl through space

its lights flashing
in every colour
neon signs alight
the city...

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Oh America, America, how much you have changed.

From Washington to Trump, we've all been estranged,

Wars over freedom, then rights, whatever it may be,

Just remember "We...

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