Inspiring Poem in tone of Pete from TMM

[ReneeLouvier]

I've been skimming around the internet today, and I happened across this poem. It reminds me, of perhaps if Pete stood up and spoke this. It envoked images and memories of his "Peoples is peoples" speech.

Wage Peace
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Wage peace with your breath.

Breathe in firemen and rubble,
breathe out whole buildings and flocks of red wing blackbirds.

Breathe in terrorists
and breathe out sleeping children and freshly mown fields.

Breathe in confusion and breathe out maple trees.

Breathe in the fallen and breathe out lifelong friendships intact.

Wage peace with your listening: hearing sirens, pray loud.

Remember your tools: flower seeds, clothes pins, clean rivers.

Make soup.

Play music, memorize the words for thank you in three languages.

Learn to knit, and make a hat.

Think of chaos as dancing raspberries,
imagine grief
as the outbreath of beauty
or the gesture of fish.

Swim for the other side.

Wage peace.

Never has the world seemed so fresh and precious:

Have a cup of tea and rejoice.

Act as if armistice has already arrived.
Celebrate today.​

Wage peace - Judyth hill - September 12, 2001

It's not much, but I figured you guys would just enjoy it, if you haven't otherwise seen or heard it.
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