posted August 24, 2005 08:49 AM
Wage peace with your breath.
Breathe in firemen and rubble,
breathe out whole buildings and
flocks of redwing blackbirds.
Breathe in terrorists and breathe out
sleeping children and freshly mown
fields. Breathe in confusion and breathe out
maple trees.
Breathe in the fallen and breathe out
lifelong friendships intact.
Wage peace with your listening:
hearing sirens, pray loud.
Remember your tools: flower seeds,
clothes pins, clean rivers.
Make soup.
Play music, learn the word for
thank you in three languages.
Learn to knit, and make a hat.
Think of chaos as dancing raspberries,
imagine grief as the outbreath of
beauty or the gesture of fish.
Swim for the other side.
Wage peace.
Never has the world seemed so
fresh and precious.
Have a cup of tea and rejoice.
Act as if armistice has already arrived.
Don't wait another minute.
by Judyth Hill
Lindaland
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posted August 24, 2005 08:49 AM