by Susan | Apr 2, 2015 | National Poetry Month
(In Springfield, Illinois) It is portentous, and a thing of state That here at midnight, in our little town A mourning figure walks, and will not rest, Near the old court-house pacing up and down. Or by his homestead, or in shadowed yards He lingers where his children...
by Susan | Apr 1, 2015 | National Poetry Month
A voice from the dark called out, “The poets must give us imagination of peace, to oust the intense, familiar imagination of disaster. Peace, not only the absence of war.” But peace, like a poem, is not there ahead of itself, can’t be imagined before...
by Susan | Mar 31, 2015 | National Poetry Month
April is National Poetry Month, so starting tomorrow the peaceCENTER will feature a poem on this Website. To get you in the mood, here’s Shel Silverstein’s Poem, “The Hug O’War,” included in his “Where the Sidewalk Ends.”...
