Let us join the movement, Against The Next War, and have your say. Please reblog or write your own story, and join Paul Sunstone, in the campaign for Peace. << click here. I’m re-posting today, and attaching this important song “Spirit Bird”, by Xavier Rudd, and his lyrics are a pure statement from the heart, please read along with the music, and cry with me, for our spirits and our land.
“Leaving us
Stunned
Hollow ashamed”
My poem:
Eating Chocolates And Watching Wars
Hungrily I’m eating a liquor chocolate
A selfish heavenly delight
Arousing my old minds senses
I wonder
What she would be thinking
Looking down from the stars
Through her sensitive olive eyes
Her everlasting smile
Her gracious courage
Her generous heart
Her forgiving soul
Her love for me and you
I wonder
What she would be thinking
Seeing these futile bloody wars
Through her compassionate olive eyes
The dead and maimed
The millions of shuffling homeless
The distraught broken families
The crying children locked in sheds
The desperate refugees with no beds
I wonder
What she would be thinking
While she preciously holds the last white dove
Observing these senseless wars
That never never end
Ivor Steven (c) 2018
**sniff**
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She would be very proud of you 🙂
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And she inspires me to write these sort of poems about our world problems. Carole was an active member of Amnesty International and writing letters for them to help the plight of Refugees 40 years ago !! and sadly not much has changed, and hence she is the backbone of my poem here. xxx
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She would be sad that things are not changing in the world…but she would be very happy that you are impacting the world in positive ways!
Powerful song and poem, Ivor.
HUGS!!! 🙂
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I know she would be please for me. And song is off a Waterboys Album I haven’t got and I must… The songs are about Yeats’s poems
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Whoops.. I’ve got the wrong song, I’m going to see Xavier on Saturday night, .. The Waterboys song is on the one i’m posting now…. xxx I think I’m tired …
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“People have the power to redeem the work of fools”❤️
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Great quote Ortensia, xx
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