For Sandy Hook

Tears fall like flower petals.

Nothing left but a dry stalk of pain in the heart,

And once that is tossed aside, as it must be,

The heart is still an empty vessel,

Holding only the question WHY.

Tears fall like flower petals,

Washing up memories, washing away the immediate ache.

Once dried, petals pressed remain

A pretty picture, a sweet cache of fragrance.

Time beside the tears, healing the hurt slowly.

Tears fall like flower petals,

A remembrance of a presence

Once alive, now gone forever.

Yet the sweetness remains,

Tenderly growing peace in the heart.

© Anne Cressin, 2017

Rose memorial for victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting
Photo by Alexisrael
from Wikimedia Commons 

Rabin....

At the precipice of Peace,

many boulders have fallen....

Yet, the torrent rushes on,

a bow of promise just above.

And below,

a foundation of stone

laid there long ago....

The harvest of seasons storming.

Let us embrace

the cold, and mist, and hardness

of this place

and move on towards the Light!

© Gerry Sackett, 2017

20th anniversary of the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin in Tel Aviv, Oct. 31, 2015
Photo by Talmoryair
from Wikimedia Commons

Unbalance

There is a peace in the unbalance of stones at river bottom

Calm in the wind shifting

Tipping the body

Oh how I’d love

To recommit all my sins

In their raw sublime

You are the earth like everything before you

What you touched, you needed once

God called your name only once

There is a peace in reconciliation with what is

Calm in despair that is only

The shifting wind as it whispers.

© Michael Mahoney, 2012

Stones at River Bottom~Photo by Tony Russell

i've been waiting for you -- poem for peace

psst.  i'm here.  the other side of the door.

i hear you.  you've been knocking.

are you the one who tried to turn the handle before?

turn the handle ... turn it.  push a bit harder on the door.

it isn't locked!

come in, i've been waiting.  i've been waiting for you.

CHORUS:   i am peace.  i am thought.  i am deed.  i am possible.

you got distracted.  you've been here.  i remember you.

don't carry your cell!  don't watch too much t.v.  don't waste so much time!

come back to the door.  turn the handle.  push on the door.  it's open!

come in.  i've been waiting!  i've been waiting for you.

CHORUS:   I am peace.  i am thought.  i am deed.  i am possible.

i am here.  always have been.  don't you know how easy it is to get to me?

all in your mind.  your mind.  choices.  you make choices.  choose me!

do i have to shout?  maybe.  but i don't do that.

i am quiet.  i'm here.  in here.  i really am.

i can't come to you.  you must come to me.   it's just the way it is.

make the time.  choice.  make the choice.  you can.  you can.

i've been waiting!   i've been waiting for you!!!

CHORUS:    i am peace.  i am thought.  i am deed.  i am possible.

you can do a lot.  or a little.  hey... it's up to you.  but... you have to do something!

now...  it's time.  now!  do one thing.  even one.  one thing for peace.  one.

come on,  come back to the door.  turn the handle.  push on the door.  push.

come in.  come in...  i've been waiting.  i've been waiting for you!

CHORUS:   i am peace.  i am thought.  i am deed.  i am possible!

© Charlene Roycht, 2011

Door waiting; photo by Tony Russell