PRACTICE OF PEACE

What is peace? We value it so highly but find it so difficult to define, recognize, or grasp. Is it something that is given to us? Do we make it anew each day, like bread? Can we start where we are? Does it have anything to do with our lives and how we think, or is it about the politics of nations? One hundred forty poems teach, inspire, and awaken us to the meaning of peace. Includes work by Naomi Shihab Nye, Judy Chicago, Arthur Sze, Margaret Randall, Joy Harjo, Jane Hirshfield, Ruth Stone, Thomas Fitzsimmons, and many others.

Beautifully designed, a book to treasure. -- Lori Kranz, The Bloomsbury Review

The Level Eye by Lucile Adler
Nettles by Lucile Adler
Ano De La Paz by William Archila
The Silence Of Juana Martinez by William Archila
The Day Before They Bombed Nagasaki by Rebecca Baggett
A Poem For Activist Insomniacs by Rebecca Baggett
Walking Guard Duty With The 81st Artillery by Stephen Bankhead
First Light On Chacra Mesa by Imogene Bolls
Kansas Flint Hills by Imogene Bolls
Carrying The Sun by Paul Bufis
Trumpet Voluntary In Praise Of My Four Children by Alvaro Cardona-hine
War With China by Alvaro Cardona-hine
On The Other Side Of The Equator by Linda Casebeer
What Is Sacred by Linda Casebeer
Goat Sestina by Siv Cedering
Tv News From The Gulf: A Villanelle by Siv Cedering
Merger by Judy Chicago
Daughter At Thirteen by Geraldine Connolly
Still Another Poem For Nuclear Disarmament by Barbara Crooker
The Man Who Is Kind To Insects by Brian Daldorph
On The Plane by Carolyn Dille
Nothing Profound by William Daniel Ehrhart
Clearing by Morgan Farley
Blood Of A Poet by D. A. Feinfeld
Machpelah by D. A. Feinfeld
Birthday Present by Charles Fishman
Community by Thomas Fitzsimmons
Fencing The Sky by Thomas Fitzsimmons
Green Apples by Thomas Fitzsimmons
Dandelion Greens by Jane Flanders
A Peaceful Death by Maureen Tolman Flannery
Picking Lettuce For Magdalena by Dina Friedman
Field With Soldiers by Carol Frome
Bread by John Francis Gilgun
Clay; For Mary And Dooley Lawrence by John Francis Gilgun
Embracing The Ordinary by Renee Gregorio
Father Buddha by H. Palmer Hall
War by Jim Hanlen
I Give You Back by Joy Harjo
Manzano Sunflowers by Dale Harris
A Different Time by Penny Harter
The Night Sky by Penny Harter
Relativity by Penny Harter
The Serengeti Plains by Penny Harter
Snakes by Penny Harter
Star Factories by Penny Harter
Feeding Five Thousand by Nancy Peters Hastings
Feeling My Way Through The Dark by Christine E. Hemp
From The Inside Out by Christine E. Hemp
The New Love: A Prescience by Christine E. Hemp
To The River And Wait by Christine E. Hemp
The Other Side Of The Window by William J. Higginson
Granted by Judyth Hill
Peace Builds Strong Bodies 12 Ways by Judyth Hill
Lake And Maple by Jane Hirshfield
Sylvia At Two: An Ode To Joy by Michelle Holland
Peace Dresses In Blue by Phyllis Hotch
There Are Moments Of Peace When My Heart Rests by Phyllis Hotch
A Common Woman's Prayer by Tina Jens
Rest 8.6.8.8.6. by James Kates
Longing by David Keller
Famine Relief by Marilyn Krysl
Spell by Marilyn Krysl
Summer Solstice, Batticaloa, Sri Lanka by Marilyn Krysl
At The Kitchen Table by Glenda Stewart Langley
Every Stump Is Sacred by Gary Lawless
I Will Rest My Head by Gary Lawless
In The Heart Where All Paths Cross by Gary Lawless
The Chair: A Letter To My Brother's Killer by Richard Lehnert
Flies by Richard Lehnert
My Lai: 28th Anniversary by Richard Lehnert
The Photographic History Of The Civil War by Richard Lehnert
My Life The River by Emily Alice Levine
The Big Dipper by Richard Levine
Hour Glass by Richard Levine
War Crimes by Joan Logghe
Nothing So Wise by Jeanne Ruth Ackley Lohmann
Dedication by Ebby Malmgren
Stolen Peace by Ebby Malmgren
The Tao Of Peace by Ebby Malmgren
Covenant by Seymour Mayne
My Shoes Pray Openly by Seymour Mayne
The Song Of Moses by Seymour Mayne
In The Waiting Room by Susann Mccarthy
Holding Together by Barbara Mccauley
The Dead Will Giggle by Mary Mcginnis
Prayer For Swift Rivers by Maggie Mckirgan
Where The First Snow Meets The Last Snow by Marianne Milton
From Another Part Of The Field by Carol Moldaw
On The Relative Nature Of Distance by Tim Myers
Flame Of One Thing by Ann Newell
Sister Helen Prejean Visits Elmo Patrick Sonner by Jessica Jordan Nudel
Burning by Naomi Shihab Nye
Jerusalem (1) by Naomi Shihab Nye
Mine by Naomi Shihab Nye
Open House by Naomi Shihab Nye
Prayer In My Boot by Naomi Shihab Nye
The Old Woman Speaks by Marian Olson
Meeting The Dead by Alicia Suskin Ostriker
Resting In Peace by Kenneth George Pobo
So Be It That Peace Is Elusive by Kenneth George Pobo
Among Lodgepole Pines, Between Downpours by Marjorie Power
At The Kitchen Window by Marjorie Power
Birds On Discovery Island by Marjorie Power
Chagall After Breakfast by Marjorie Power
Bouillabaisse by Margaret Randall
The Games That Keep Them Quiet by Margaret Randall
Finding The Right Words by Stella Reed
The Peaceable Kingdom by Elisavietta Ritchie
The Puffball Offering by Elisavietta Ritchie
My Mother Under The Bodhi Tree by Linda Goodman Robiner
For Earches by Jim Sagel
Lullabye by Dennis Saleh
Excalibur by Lawrence Schimel
This Could Be An Ode by Kaylock Sellers
Bar Sonnet by J. D. Smith
Stoning Rusty by Thomas R. Smith
Because We Name by Maryhelen Snyder
Long Distance Call by Maryhelen Snyder
A Time In September by Maryhelen Snyder
Other Side Of The Fence by Michele Spring-moore
The Last Frontier by Hans J. Stahlschmidt
The Writer by Hans J. Stahlschmidt
Here by Arthur Sze
The Leaves Of A Dream Are The Leaves Of An Onion: 1 by Arthur Sze
The Leaves Of A Dream Are The Leaves Of An Onion: 2 by Arthur Sze
The Leaves Of A Dream Are The Leaves Of An Onion: 3 by Arthur Sze
The Leaves Of A Dream Are The Leaves Of An Onion: 4 by Arthur Sze
The Leaves Of A Dream Are The Leaves Of An Onion: 5 by Arthur Sze
The Leaves Of A Dream Are The Leaves Of An Onion: 6 by Arthur Sze
The Sweetness Of Hay by Gina M. Tabasso
The Comfort Of Time Zones by Patti Tana
What Is Left by Craig Van Riper
A Consideration Of The Relationship Between The Contours Of Life And T by Kayce Verde
Prevention Of War by Nicola Waldron
Arrival by Eric Walter
Justice by Margaret Weaver
Oranges In A Blue Bowl by Margaret Weaver
Frog At Midnight by Paul Willis
Visiting Home by Paul Willis
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder®