Seattle Participants Nancy Peacock |
DIALOGUE AMONG CIVILIZATIONS THROUGH POETRY |
Seattle Participants Nancy Peacock |
I AM GRINGA I am gringa At 6:30 a.m. in Managua I walk alone sharing the track with school children uniformed in navy and white four blocks to the park a safe place in this barrio Today, as yesterday, the same people wash the car sweep the street scrub the tile in front of the house They sit on the stoop and smile I nod and say 'Buenos dias.' There is no hatred in their eyes they do not seem to hold me responsible for the failure of their revolution. -Betsy Bell |
If I Were Demonstrating Today (at Livermore Nuclear Labs) I would gladly risk arrest sip cold coffee from a stainless steel dog food bowl Wait at Santa Rita Jail confident our social determination will make a critical difference initiating a Treaty for warhead abolition Transforming nuclear cruelty into a compassionate embrace -Larry Ebersole |
DAYBREAK Poets can dream poets can write They can hope and they can pray for peace Such deeds make us feel like we've done something Humanity trapped in tragedy, Words of vengeance thunder from the past Bullets of war flags of peace Sol returns at daybreak, never loses hope, Like poets with pens and hope in their hearts, Lead the blind; release us from our slumbers, Spread rays of ink like sunbeams and Like the sun always be there at daybreak Nothing will change until man learns to love -J. Glenn Evans |