- Peace Poetry

Magic emerges
thrust upwards
from the lake’s painted surface;
Arthur’s sword
pointing the fair way to justice

alas we have grasped
the wrong weapon;
greed,
and above us all now
hangs the sword
of Damocles 

-Lesley Walker-Fitzpatrick

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EMPATHY GAP
  because we can not
  feel
each other’s pain
  we cause
  each other more

tears,
the harvest
  of indifference
  to each other’s humanity

tears,
  of the women
  in Palestine, Afghanistan
  in Israel, Bosnia
  in Iraq and Serbia
  tears of the mothers, wives, daughters

in New York, Nova Scotia
  in Spain and London
  in Edmonton, Petawawa
  in Japan and Russia,
  in Kashmir

tears
of the women and children
  in Darfur,
  Bali,
  Sudan,
  and Colombia,
  in Haiti,
  Harlem
  in Lebanon and Gaza

all tears
flow
  to the great sea of sorrow

Arab tears
  Israeli tears
  Hindu, Moslem, Jewish tears
  Christian, Buddhist tears
  Salt of the Earth,

mourning falling water
  each dropping tear
  joins trillions more
  in the great sea of sorrow

mad hatters march
  won’t turn the tide

and like Alice, trapped
  we can’t find the key

-Lesley Walker-Fitzpatrick
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DARK TO DAWN
lost
in a crude,
black,
oil powered age

vested interests,
military dream spun
with cruelty
that rivals
the ancient Hun

petroleum power pumps flow
for traded plastic
or slices of murdered trees

religious fundamentalists
bray and bark
about this obscure point,
that irrelevant one

while all God’s enlightened children
await the light of love:
The Golden One Rule
that commands
compassion

all energy falls
everyday
from the sun
waiting for harness
in the light age to come 

- Lesley Walker-Fitzpatrick

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nucleus
engine of life
nuclear
engine of death
ramping up the stakes
on a ragged
blue green planet

how to find solace
when the search for oil
is holy grail

so much gold,
rays spilling
coursing
sun’s alchemy
on a luminous planet
in the depths
of space

blue and green
have their genesis
in gold
falling
quivering
illuminating
life creating

flower enmeshed
with painter’s blood
reflecting
infinite variety
quick silver
consciousness
ecstatic
elemental choreography
electrons
atoms
cells

-Lesley Walker-Fitzpatrick