Collaboration for Peace

Mish and I have been working on a project we would like to call “Collaboration for Peace”. Here is our second creation, combining her photos with my haiku. We hope to spread peace and hope throughout this community of poets.
Who is Mish? You can find her at mishunderstood. We are both members of Artista4Peace.

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shore birds gather
along the beach like children
collecting treasures

© candace kubinec

Not Much New

There’s not much new
between midnight and
midnight:01
except in that second
we’ve gained another year
flipped the calendar page
kissed someone we love
(or like a lot)
made promises to
ourselves about the
improvements we’ll
be seeing in the coming months
shared a toast, raised
a glass
danced and hugged
cheered with the crowd
and felt the stirrings
of hopefulness tingling
down our spines.
~
Happy New Year!!
Wishing you peace and hope in 2016

need for peace

my peace is not your peace
for my struggle is not yours
what vexes me you dismiss
with ease and your anxieties
bring me no anguish
your prayers are not my prayers
our snares are not the same
but our needs are not so different
a safe home
food and clean water
a feeling of usefulness
respect
surely then, peace will find us

over at dVerse Bjorn has us thinking about peace

http://dversepoets.com

I’ll link at http://withrealtoads.blogspot.com too

Peace Remains

image

I traced secrets on

the shores of your heart

words of hope, of fear

and broken dreams are

scratched into the sandy

beaches

I wait for foaming

swells of love

to erase the pain

each

one

swept away

until all

that remains

is

peace