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Posted: 3/20/2009 2:50:25 PM | ^i'm so glad they resonate in you...please feel free to add any lyrics, quotes, writing that inspires you on this subject....
bringing this 8 line over from the last line, first line, written this afternoon....
by leading it into an endless war
there is fear it's forevermore
but it's not what we were created for
so sanctify this war no more....
it's time to call in a time of peace
to raise our vision and escape the prison
that's been locking us in so much fear....
it's time to stop the fighting here
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Posted: 3/21/2009 4:39:43 AM | to rise above
the hate and blood
means to be set
on a journey
that starts really early
but if it's not been part
of the parents' heart
how can we impart
it to our children?
yet somewhere in me
believes deep within
and just above
of everyone
we all have
that flying dove
trying to be heard
above the noise
of all the other birds
but when you fly
in peace and stillness
often you are barely seen
like a white whisp floating by
or just hovering
out of the corner of your eye
or there in your dreams
if your waking life
has not been filled
with so many screams
and horror
at this hour
millions suffering
beyond imagination
in hoods across the world
living lives of real nightmares
where peace flags
just can't unfirl
and if they did
they'd be needed
to wrap the bodies
of the freezing
and already dead
it has been said
it is going to take
much more
than peaceful intentions
and tremendous love
to change the suffering
and end the cruelty
from which we act
towards the planet
and all on it
to really change
the course of
humanity's destiny
and let the humane
in the word humanity
really come to be
for until we all
take responsibility
we will never be free
of these atrocities
written on 'reflection of past year into the future' 2.28.08 | |
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Posted: 3/21/2009 5:17:38 AM | 'relish the now for it's gone so fast'
slipping quickly like the rest to the past
what will it take for us to last?
that is the eternal question
some say it's natural
not to worry about our survival
we've all been here before and returned for more
that there is truth to reincarnation
even our beloved planet
has been through a few cycles
of living and dieing and living again
perhaps the real resurrection
but right here right now
honestly can't really see how
if we keep up these abuses and all our excuses
our world will keep turning and not start burning
the holes in our air are really a scare
and rain forests? they're hardly there
we keep chopping and cropping without a care
and money is all that makes the world go round
one day we'll find it's just us and dead ground
with no oxygen to keep us alive
and then we''ll remember why the trees were so many
we really needed them to survive
but it will be too late
as it already is I fear
the day draws near for we have sealed our fate
from an unconscious and ignorant state
written 10/4/08 on a last line/first line | |
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Posted: 3/21/2009 5:24:46 AM | sunkist oranges and prisms
and in the now
looking within will always show how
to really know we're divine
and not just doing time
in a punishment line
but seeing with clear mind
there is nothing to forgive
for there is no hurt we haven't lived
that hasn't been matched equally
with some incredible love
that landed on our shoulder and sat awhile
quite miraculously
written three months ago on riv's thread | |
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Posted: 3/21/2009 6:12:53 AM | bringing this here, edited a little this morning, but written nearly three months ago during a time I was on a 10 post/day restriction and so this is not the original poem,
which sadly disappeared when I went to post it....so in trying to re-write it, my frustration had set in and I had lost my peacefulness and clarity of focus, so it got much longer
and more demanding in its tone...nevertheless, it speaks of things I think might be valid for this thread .....inspired by rosie's last line at that time, 'how did it get so wrong?'
Humanity's Call
'how did it get so wrong?'
some say the world is always
in a state of perfect balance...
as unbelievable as that may sound
especially when we know
of the atrocities happening
all the time, and all around,
on, above and below ground.....
balance, I hear many say,
but what about Zimbabwe
where millions are dying
or living lives less than ants
at the hands of one evil dictator
and he's just one of many real life tyrants
yes, balance, I dare say,
and this poem is not coming out at all
like the first time, for now in this moment
there is a different energy writing each line...
one that is aggravated through my rhymes
with the way people are treated,
even the writers here who lose words all the time
at the hands of our own moderators....
perhaps just another micro universe
occurring veiling our bliss....
nevertheless, to return to my prayer
on balance and how I hear
it's a much bigger picture
than what we see happening here.....
if we look with a view
as if far off in space
we can see that this place, this planet,
looks like paradise with colours and light
that truly for all senses delight
and we shine ever so brightly
throughout the galaxy
then you come a little closer and see
that it looks like we are all living
and working and being in harmony
and the question of balance
seems unnecessary when there is unity
then you come a little closer
and then a little closer and suddenly
you see your vision is an illusion
and it's nothing like unity or harmony visible
for that side is completely invisible
and in its place is disharmony and lack of responsibility
with the appearance of having fallen from grace
with so much separation and hibernation
division and delineation with boundaries and walls
and no one to catch all those who fall
while up in magestic towers are the powers
that appear to be acting like gods
but have no compassion or awareness
of our unity in our minds, hearts, souls and bods
so we ask, all the time, how can this be?
for do we not say this is the land of liberty
and don't we see ourselves living free
and often doing exactly what we wish to be?
so, to return to first line again....
how did it get so wrong?
some say it is not a question of 'right' and 'wrong'
for even those words come from a mind set of illusion...
for in the confusion
of wishing to make sense of existence
we created these views that fill the news
and recreate the illusion
over and over and over again
others say, as I keep trying to write,
that always in life, there is balance
and so for everyone who's dying right now of cholera
or living their life so poor with no one to rescue them
others are just being born with health and wealth
and many loved ones protecting them
life is always in balance...
that for every death, there is a birth
and for every curse, there is blessing
for every sadness, there is happiness
for every hate, there is an equal love
so for every hell, there is heaven
and every well, there is a ladder,
for every good deed, there'll be one that's bad'er
for every lie there is truth
for every classy person, there'll be someone who's uncouth
and for all the elderly, there is equally the energy of the youth
because there is always balance being achieved
throughout our lives and humanity
so going even further out in our view
to imagine and maybe even see
this law of balance occurs universally
now in my original poem
I wrote also of another phenomenon
that is, to me, an extension of balance
and that is the subject of unity
when we remember
the essence of humanity
is that connection that can not be divided,
that behind door number four and at our core
is a unifying energy that travels the web
and gathers all of humanity as one
one
so when we hurt another
we are really hurting our own
father, mother, sister, brother,
son and daughter, grandmother,
grandfather, grandson, grand daughter
that all, like the child within, resides in thee
it is an unbelievable and incredibly miraculous view, to me,
to imagine truly those suffering in Zimbabwe....is me
and those who died in the holocaust....is me
and that car in front of me weaving dangerously...is me
and those sitting in their towers
subjecting so many to their illusion of their powers....is me
real unity means there is no division at all
that the three muskateers cliche'
was a spiritual truth, actually...
'all for one and one for all'
is humanity's call
for we are eternally
and ultimately
tied to each other so deeply
there is no separation
for we are one,
intertwined like dna
forever spun
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Posted: 3/23/2009 9:16:15 AM | Fragile lyrics
If blood will flow when flesh and steel are one
Drying in the colour of the evening sun
Tomorrow's rain will wash the stains away
But something in our minds will always stay
Perhaps this final act was meant
To clinch a lifetime's argument
That nothing comes from violence and nothing ever could
For all those born beneath an angry star
Lest we forget how fragile we are
On and on the rain will fall
Like tears from a star like tears from a star
On and on the rain will say
How fragile we are how fragile we are
On and on the rain will fall
Like tears from a star like tears from a star
On and on the rain will say
How fragile we are how fragile we are
How fragile we are how fragile we are
Sting | |
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Posted: 3/23/2009 11:47:59 AM | ^ahhh.....it's a beautiful song, k....
thank you for leaving it here..... | |
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Posted: 3/23/2009 1:47:55 PM | By Alice Walker
Goodnight Willy Lee
Looking down in my fathers dead face for the last time,
My mother said
without smiles,
without tears,
without regrets
but with servility,
Goodnight Willy Lee
I'll see you in the morning.
It was then that I knew that the healing of all our wounds
is forgiveness which permits a
promise of our return at the end. | |
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Posted: 3/24/2009 9:56:00 AM | That's one of my all time fav's
Oh and you are so sweet Lady
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Posted: 3/24/2009 11:47:14 AM | thank you for posting the song on forgiveness, paulandit...
it reminds me how deeply forgiveness can help and heal....
here is another song on that subject with much wisdom and truth, I think.....
Leona Lewis ...."Forgiveness"
Ummmmmm, ummmmmmm
[Verse 1]
'I don't wanna spend another day,
Pointing fingers while I'm placing blame,
I'm no angel, imperfect myself, cos baby I am only human,
And I don't wanna put it all on you,
I admit I did some painful things its true,
And I'm sorry for them, no making amends,
For always thinking I was innocent
[Chorus]
Starting today, I'm gonna change,
Don't wanna make the same mistakes,
Cos I can see a new horizon,
The ice around my heart is melting,
And the hurt I feel is slowly dying,
Now I'm, no longer crying,
The bridge we burnt is being built again,
It's leading to a new begining,
And it may never be the way it was,
And that's because I'm talking about forgiveness,
Forgiveness, forgiveness, forgiveness,
[Verse 2]
I wish we could take back the things we said,
Cos what we saids not always what we meant,
We lost our heads, in the moment,
And the words we used them like a weapon,
But no one wins if we both walk away,
And we hid behind the people we became,
We're warmer than that, we're better than that,
And I still cherish all the things we had,
[Chorus]
Starting today, I'm gonna change,
Don't wanna make the same mistakes,
Cos I can see a new horizon,
The ice around my heart is melting,
And the hurt I feel is slowly dying,
Now I'm, no longer crying,
The bridge we burnt is being built again,
It's leading to a new begining,
And it may never be the way it was,
And that's because I'm talking about forgiveness,
Forgiveness, forgiveness, forgiveness
[Bridge]
If everybody could forgive and forget (just forget),
Think of all the time that we could spend, being friends,
Think about all the lives we could change,
And all the love we could make,
Baby how the world would be a better place,
In the ennnndddd, ohhhhh,
[Chorus]
Starting today, all that we will change,
And I'll make the same mistakes, you know that,
I can see a new horizon,
The ice around my heart is melting,
And the hurt I feel is slowly dying,
And I'm no longer,
The bridge we burnt is being built again,
It's leading to a new begining,
And it may never be the way it was,
And that's because I'm talking about forgiveness,
Forgiveness, forgiveness, forgiveness,
Forgiveness [x6]
[Talking (forgiveness in background)]
If everybody could just forgive,
The world would be a much better place,
[singing] ohhhhh
Forgiveness [talking]' | |
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Posted: 3/24/2009 9:03:02 PM | another song that should be here.....
"Get Together " by Lizz Wright
Fear's the way we die
You can make the mountain dream
Or make the angels cry
Know the dove is on the wing
And you need not know why
Come on people now
Smile on your brother
Everybody get together
Try and love one another right now
Mmm ...
Some will come and some will go
We will surely pass
When the one who left us here
Returns for us at last
We are but a moment´s light
Fading in the grass
Come on people now
Smile on your brother
Everybody get together
Try and love one another right now
Mmm ... right now
Mmm ...
If you hear the song I sing
You must understand
You hold the key to love and fear
All in your trembling hand
Just one key unlocks them both
And it´s there at your command
Come on people now
Smile on your brother
Everybody get together
Try and love one another right now
Come on people now
Smile on your brother
Everybody get together
Try and love one another right now
Yeah, yeah, right now
Mmm ...
Oooo, yeah
Mmm ... | |
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Posted: 3/25/2009 6:13:17 AM | Hi WeAre1 re:reflection of the past year into the future(2:28:08)
This is a very beautiful and convincing piece of work;love it and thanks! | |
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Posted: 3/25/2009 7:25:05 AM | ^^thank you...
there was a second part to that post i didn't add here...so here it is....
I know it starts with me
in my own life and family
in my own ability
to act lovingly
even in the face
of uncertainty
or when i feel angry
in myself
for acting selfishly
or without empathy
when my compassion
loses out to my passion
real or often in my imagination....
I know it starts with me
to face my own inhumanity
with utter honesty
and only then will
I be able to change
and refrain from
my own inhumanity
with sincerity
reflection of past year into the future...
written 2/28/2009 | |
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Posted: 3/25/2009 4:43:36 PM | Hi WeAre1
The words(of 2/28/2009) is the encapsulation of 'divinity' within the human spirit (in my opinion )and differentiates us from any other living species on earth.Leaders have a greater responsibility!
There is one such leader of note from Tibet who refuses to approve EVEN ONE act of
violence to achieve any rights for his country BECAUSE IT DEFEATS THE PURPOSE
AND INTENTION OF THE WORDS YOU HAVE PENNED!
May your words promote and encourage more peacemakers! | |
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Posted: 3/27/2009 3:22:11 PM | thank you, p....I hope more peace is encouraged also....I know many feel that now...
going back in time, here is one peacemaker, singer, songwriter, who's music I have always loved, but this song I only just found again and read the lyrics to see it
definitely belonged here in this thread of 'peaceful prayer'.....
Jackson Browne...."It is One"
'They shot a man into the sky
The moon and stars became his bed
He saw the sun rise seven times
And when he came back down he said
It is one, it is one
One world spinning 'round the sun
Wherever it is you call home
Whatever country you come from
It is one, it is one, it is one, it is one
They shot a man if Africa
At a time of rivalry and war
He had some dreams of a good life
But dreams aren't what they killed him for
Now people stand themselves next to the righteous
And they believe the things they say are true
They speak in terms of what divides us
To justify the violence they do
But it is one, it is one
One world spinning 'round the sun
Wherever it is you call home
Whatever country you come from
It is one, it is one, it is one, it is one
One -- the deep blue ocean
One -- the endless sky
One -- the purple mountains
One -- you and I
It's not a world of our own choosing
We don't decide where we are born
This life is a battleground between right and wrong
One way or other we are torn
And people stand themselves next to the righteous
And they believe the things they say are true
And speak in terms of what divides us
To justify the violence they do
But it is one, it is one
One world spinning 'round the sun
Wherever it is you call home
Whatever country you come from
It is one, it is one, it is one, it is one
It is one, it is one, it is one, it is one
One -- the deep blue ocean
One -- the endless sky
One -- the purple mountains
One -- you and I' | |
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Posted: 3/29/2009 6:18:39 AM | Beautiful Love
Come
The crimson dawn is calling and crawling
Let us yawn in fresh breaths at her
Gentle enumerous violin strums
Of rays undaunting in flaunting
Pink and yellow hues
Let us hush beside a wild dawn
And ride what ages eons have gained
From sun shine such as this...
Come love
For tomorrow will also come
Come love
Let us open palmed accept the
Loving dawn
How many more mornings shall we have?
How many more moons shall glow?
Come love
I just want you to know now..
I really do love you
And want to share this dawn
With you...
'Come love...' | |
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Posted: 3/29/2009 6:30:38 PM | Good thread We...
Yes, calling for peace!
Yet,
as long as the wanting
of others shiny things
and partials of Earth
and empowered names
as long as the people
are kept in the dark
by others ambitions
and threatening barks
as long as the desire
of egos puffed up
will never relent
till they are on top
and the way to acquire
what is easily won
through intimidation
by hands with big guns
there will not be a way
till those held in disdain
have been totally banished
then,
perhaps we can try peace again
Think its possible?
We may need a great intervention.  | |
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Posted: 3/29/2009 8:06:14 PM | interwoven in the fabric of everything is 'the seed of its apparent opposite'....
or
yin and yang.....
perhaps, just perhaps within every gun is the spark of the potential for peace.....
it sounds absurd, and yet, perhaps it is the yang of peaceful yin.....
i am just wondering about this, knowing from some vantage point,
everything is always in balance, even if from our view that seems impossible......
anyway, thank you so much angelic balancing for your beautiful poem of love -
inviting it now, for sure, because truly we may not be here next year.....
and secretless secret (now you've exposed so much of your beauty and truth and
very sharp wit and wonderful use of words!).....so not so much a secret any more,
dear woman :) ......thank you for your poem and awareness of all the challenges
that prevent peace so often from being......
it is a very deep subject and today for me was both an extremely peaceful and loving day
for the second half, as well as a day of much challenge and peace not being achieved
in the first half.....so both operating, believe it or not, of equal force in my day today.
ideally, I should like to see a lot more peace and a lot less war in each person
and family and community and state and country and world.
if only we could put as much energy into loving - unconditionally loving - as we do
into conditionally loving - in other words, withdrawing our love - blocking our
natural loving energy as much as we do.....
there is much I am calling for when I say 'peace'....I am calling for peace from the tiniest disrespect to that on the grandest scale of unity throughout the world.....
so, yes, bestkeptsecret - it really is taking a giant intervention!! | |
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Posted: 3/30/2009 11:19:51 AM | Peace is within
It comes from establishing within ones own mind the precept that they will not emotionally succumb to the interference of others that have not choosen, or been allowed to, embrace the harmony that is afforded by establishing a mindset that dismisses the thoughts that disrupt the flow of peace ( hatred, bitterness, contempt etc. etc.)
Having been allowed to entertain thoughts of good and evil...which is the fall....it is now our obligation to choose to be peaceful
Verbal interference from others is merely a manifestation of the thought process ( the flow of good and evil that is within the greater consciousness of us all ) within their own mind and speaking in words and tones that are indicative of their state of mind is merely an attempt to rid themselves of the disruption that is occuring within their thought process
No one wants to be emotionally bombarded with thoughts that create unease within themselves
Disruptive individuals act in such a fashion to try and create a disruption within the mind of those that they are communicating with in an attempt to rid themselves of that which it is that is troubling to them
Consciousness IS awareness of what is and is not acceptable
A judgement of sorts
Sorting out of what goes where
We have been programmed to feel compassion and empathy for the the emotional state of those around us
In doing so we can either act in the same fashion as what is being presented to us by disruptive others or we can choose to respond in a fashion that does not engage in discord
Each individual is responsible for the portion of the thoughts that come into their mind
Each individual has the capacity to merely dismiss that which is unbecoming to maintaining a peaceful mindset
Disruption seeks peace and calm because it is the opposite of peace
The greater portion of individuals that allow disruption to be a part of their thought process/mindset the greater disruption that peaceful individuals have to run interference against
Do not let the flow of anothers emotional upheaval become your own upheaval
Peace is a blessing and gratitude is the required response | |
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Posted: 3/30/2009 1:39:58 PM | Peace is a blessing and gratitude is the required response
domut...a great conclusion!
Thank you WeR1....you are such a gracious soul...
We who want peace are many
but those who selfishly want,
do not out-number the 'we'
but they hold a power that haunts
That ill disruption is disguised
behind a dark cloak of good
peace just doesn't seem to last
...not ever like it should
and the 'we' who trust goodness
may unknowingly take bad bait;
born behind deceitful eyes
until once again it's too late
Evil blends nicely with deception
told in well constructed lies
somehow it seems to linger
under the personal agenda guise
but in the lasting hope of 'we'
our desired joy is sized
so the search will never fade away
peace will forever be the prize
~Someday~ | |
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Posted: 3/30/2009 4:22:04 PM | "...Do not let the flow of anothers emotional upheaval become your own upheaval..."
 yes, domut, i so agree....we always have the choice, if we are conscious enough to choose and not maybe automatically respond
as we might have once upon a time (and still do sometimes)....
and bks...thank you for your thoughtfilled poem....
seeking peace....like seeking love...
being aware of those that might truly be wolves in sheeps' clothing....
is it possible that peace always is existing, just as love all ways is existing, yet there are many veils distorting its perfect beauty and state of naturally being?
so it is always in existence alongside its apparent lack of it.....just like love....
is it possible it is not opposites at all - but all levels or degrees of peace, or love?
i will try tomorrow or later to return to writing poetically....sorry I have slipped into plain 'discussion' now.....
sometimes it is what happens when trying to see something
from different directions..... | |
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Posted: 3/30/2009 4:31:46 PM |
Being
Imagine planets having eyes
Looking back to these skies
Starry night’s planetary insights
Aware in flight universal in delight
Liken being humans hand in hand
Awe inspiring wonderment
Global beings seeking life
Fortune realized… in their eyes
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Posted: 3/31/2009 4:53:31 AM | ^thank you for your beautiful poem sharing a beautiful vision....
wishing to post here now the lyrics of two songs, both called, "I Believe", both that touch my heart and soul deeply....
Joe Satriani
Flying in a Blue Dream (1989)
I Believe
'I've been out walking for hours.
I've got something on my mind.
How did we get here? Where are we going?
And why is life so hard?
I read the stories, see the photographs.
World's in a crazy space.
I've got to hold on to my dreams;
There's just no other place.
There's just no other place.
CHORUS:
I believe
We can change anything.
I believe
We can rise above this.
I believe
There's a reason for everything.
I believe
In my dream.
I've seen the shadows of the living.
Seen them turn and walk away.
And I keep searching for the right words
To send these thoughts away.
There's a picture I like to look at,
A picture of a beautiful face.
And I see something in her eyes,
Sends me to a better place.
Sends me to a better place.
CHORUS
I believe
We can change anything.
I believe
In my dream.'
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Posted: 3/31/2009 5:04:12 AM |
"I Believe" by Diamond Rio
Every now and then
Soft as breath upon my skin
I feel you come back again
And it's like you haven't been
Gone a moment from my side
Like the tears were never cried
Like the hands of time
Are holding you... and me
And with all my heart I'm sure
We're closer than we ever were
I don't have to hear or see,
I've got all the proof I need
There are more than angels watching... over me
I believe... Oh, I believe
That when you die your life goes on
It doesn't end here when you're gone
Every soul is filled with light
It never ends ..and if I'm right
Our love can even reach.. across.. eternity..!
I believe... Ooh, I believe
Forever, you're a part of me
Forever, in the heart of me
I will hold you even longer, if I can...!
Oh, the people who don't see the most
See that I believe in ghosts
If that makes me crazy,
Then I am... 'cause I believe!
Oh, I believe...!
There are more than angels watching.. over me!
I believe
Oh, I believe...
Every now and then
Soft as breath upon my skin
I feel you come back again...
......and I believe
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