by Susan | Apr 30, 2015 | National Poetry Month
THERE are who teach only the sweet lessons of peace and safety; But I teach lessons of war and death to those I love, That they readily meet invasions, when they come.
by Susan | Apr 30, 2015 | this day in peace and justice history
April 30, 1967 Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered a sermon entitled, “Why I Am Opposed to the War in Vietnam” at Riverside Church in New York...
by Susan | Apr 29, 2015 | National Poetry Month
You are blind like us. Your hurt no man designed, And no man claimed the conquest of your land. But gropers both through fields of thought confined We stumble and we do not understand. You only saw your future bigly planned, And we, the tapering paths of our own mind,...
by Susan | Apr 29, 2015 | this day in peace and justice history
April 29, 1968 This is the dawning of the Age of Aquarius: The musical Hair premiered on Broadway. Harmony and understanding, Sympathy and trust abounding, No more falsehoods or derisions, Golden living dreams of visions, Mystic crystal revelation, And the...
by Susan | Apr 28, 2015 | National Poetry Month
I knew a simple soldier boy Who grinned at life in empty joy, Slept soundly through the lonesome dark, And whistled early with the lark. In winter trenches, cowed and glum, With crumps and lice and lack of rum, He put a bullet through his brain. No one spoke of him...
