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Peace Versus War

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Start/end date: 
Thursday, August 1, 2024 to Saturday, August 31, 2024
Contest description: 

Write a poem about peace versus war

 

One poem per member.

Written in rhyme

40 lines or less

 

Date Due: August 31st   2024

 

Prize: 25 Dollar Amazon Gift Card, three-month premium, Recognition on your profile and published in our anthology.

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To Those Who Walked, Peace Versus War

 

I hope you have a quiet day,
a kissing breeze,
sweet hours at ease
planting flowers, if you please,
and nothing there to rip it all away.
I hope you have that day.

I pray you have a gentle night,
under stars so deep
they soothe and keep
your soft breath flowing as you sleep
beneath the crescent moon and her earthlight.
I pray you have that night.

And may your memories be amended
to blissful skies and green earth, so splendid
that they embrace you when you close your eyes.
May this be the rich life you come to realize.

To those who walked through the blood of yesternight,
I hope for you this day. I pray for you this night.

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Comments

This made me think of that tingling sensation you get when someone whispers in your ear...

:)

Koki

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