Every primary, middle and secondary school around the world was invited to submit, via e-mail, two lines of poetry about peace to the United Nations. Once collected, the nines were collated together into one long Peace Poem. Poems came in from 38 countries around the world.
Pieces Pieces Pieces ..... Stitch them with the
threads of non-violence, love, and equality.
Ah hah! Beautiful dress of Peace!
Global Vision Student (attached to Madurai Kamaraj University) Madurai, India
White dove, flying in the wind,
Take my home under your wing!
German Language High School, Sofia, Bulgaria
As I look around the world I sigh,
And think, We could at least give peace a try,.
Exeter-West Greenwich Junior High (West Greenwich, RI, US)
Peace is in the waves at sea.
Peace must begin with you and me!
Gander Middle School (Gander, Newfoundland, Canada)
Don't fight about your colour.
Love each other like brothers and sisters.
School of the Nations, Primary Section, Macau
Peace is like an African jungle ---
It takes years to grow and seconds to destroy.
Parktown High School for Girls, Secondary School, Parkview, South Africa
From peace we come and to peace we go,
meanwhile peace is something we don't know.
Oakdale High School, Riversdale, South Africa
Toys and green goblins and big yellow ice
creams,
Not bombs that extinguish our hopes and our
dreams.
Jolimont Primary School, Perth, Australia
May peace be scattered
Like pebbles in a dancing pond of rain
Turquoise Trail Elementary School, Santa Fe, NM, US
Start a war within yourself
To live in peace with everyone else.
Escola Mobile, Sao Paulo, Brazil
I prefer when the sun is shining in the sky and
birds are flying.
When all the people in the world are merry
and smiling.
Pskov School #4, Russian Federation
Stop and write some happy rhymes about the
peace we need.
Then you can proceed on your way to hand it
over for all to read.
Basic School, Fabryho (Kosice, Slovakia)
Wherever I go, peace is with me,
because without peace there is no me.
Middle School, "Zdravstveno Uciliste", Zagreb, Croatia
Peace is something you can't see with your eyes.
It lives in everyone and it is so nice.
Florfence Nightingale (Buenos Aires, Argentina)
One rainbow people,
working together, for the good of all.
Pakuranga College, Bucklands Beach, Auckland, New Zealand
Tick (√) the correct answer.
'Peace must begin with you and me!' What do you understand by this precious thought?
Why do the children want: