The Peace Poem


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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

Available Answers

  1. 1.

    Tick (√) the correct answer.

    1. What do the children wish to do?
      1. They want to give peace a try.
      2. Write happy rhymes about peace.
      3. Be under the wing of the white dove.
      4. Not fight about colour.
      5. All of these
    2. How do children plan to stitch a dress for peace?
      1. with threads of non-violence, love and equality
      2. with origami cranes
      3. both (a) and (b)
      4. all of these
  2. 2.

    'Peace must begin with you and me!' What do you understand by this precious thought?

  3. 3.

    Why do the children want:

    1. peace to be scattered?
    2. no fight about colour?
  4. 4.
    How is peace associated with love?
  5. 5.
    Do you think the title of the poem is appropriate? Why/Why not?
  6. 6.
    What can happen when we do not have peace?
1 more answer(s) available.

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