Best Pacifists Poems

1918


God rest you, peaceful gentlemen, let nothing you dismay,
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Though Albert was a shy, unassuming scientist,
He had the charming ability to connect with people
Through his interesting letters, filled with compelling content.
He made it a habit to write letters to all his dear ones;
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“I SPEAK TO THEE OF LIGHT”

The Master spoke…
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NOT ours to clamor shame on you,
Nor fling a bitter blame on you,
Nor brand a cruel name on you,
That evil name of treason,
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Should we all stop eating meat?
No, we'll starve of protein doing that.
But yes, it's morally right.
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Make love and not war
We've heard that saying once before,
We even heard about giving peace a chance.
But, try and try as we may
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Seemingly sumptuous prophecies incite
the celebrative prognosis of a social revolution.
A visitation to the perennial botanical gardens
exhibits the bountiful heterogeneity of our Nature.
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Which fish
The scuba diver
Is going after?
The big one
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War is an egregious blood-sucker
War is a dreadful and vainglorious monster
War eats and destroys human flesh
War is not afraid to kill babies in their crèche
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Happy 70th birthday to you, Stevie Wonder
You're amazingly talented. You're a wonder
I am writing for you this piece of poetry
Because you fight for liberty, equality
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It is very often said that there is a time
For everything, a time when heinous crime
Does not pay and a time to challenge
All which is too utterly strange and frange.
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Read and study history, all you pacifists
and lovers of man-unkind! Even the poet
e.e. cummings had it right in the end!
Ask the diplomats who sat down with the likes
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It all depends, don't you think?
Why not just swallow the line
that pacifists urge on us
and roll over for enemies
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Terrorists should never be invited to the Capitol
Vile trespassers or terrorists are not tourists
It is inviting lions to visit the slaughter house
Many extremists are untrained terrorists
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This is the destruction of a very beautiful country
This is the dilapidation of an inherited good economy
America has been great for a long time
This is despicable. This is sad. This is a crime
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Simplicity on an abandoned road speaking of
The thoughts left amongst the shells,
As the sunlight weeps down through the vines
Caressing the pine trees—
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Pacifists looking on, jaws constructed of spider webs,
Flotillas of daydreams eking through the yawn,
And wearied, defeated husbands and wives
Still swearing they’re in love;
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Brother, you choose to walk a warriors path
I choose to walk a path to lasting peace
World has both, so please curtail thy wrath
There’s room for both, to ply our expertise
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First proper spring day time to dust
the old scooter and visit places
on roads few travel… Once I bought
a toy gun- well, I was a child-
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A Haibun for Susan Sontag, author of Regarding the Pain of Others

white poppy
pinned to her son's first suit
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They staged it beautifully just like the theatre personae
The common people of common things commonly
Of the street theatres, nukkad sabhas
Or the people doing panchayiti
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Sheep wander
there are pacifists
they are calm
and natural, not so clean,
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I. Semper Fidelis

For thousands of years they've been alone
This cold place doesn't truly feel like home;
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I stood in the flag-decked cheering crowd
Where all but I were gay,
And gazing on their extesy,
My heart shrank in dismay.
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Staring at the signs
Looking for a rhyme
Looking for your words
That's worth a lifetime
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In my mouth another mouth
Between my teeth other teeth.
O my parents... my people!
You who sent me into the world like a bullet,
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Staring at the signs
Looking for a rhyme
Looking for your words
That are worth a lifetime
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Ride with Michael, Until the sun
Acting like we don't know no one
With the whole city undone
Brutes around like Huns
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I stand erect and tall. Waiting.
I have had rough and thorough training,
in preparation for this time.
I stare, unblinking, into the cold, hard,
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A tear and a prayer…
For the victims, for the families of misapplied gunfire,
Whether blue on black, or black on blue…
A crescendo of fear, anger, ignorance, and vengeance
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It is not “P. C.” to be anti-war,
Or to refuse to stuff one’s face with meat.
Quakers are not pacifists anymore
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It would not be surprising
if Santa Claus were real,
That he’d stop inside a soldier’s house,
And be emotionally struck I feel.
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I sit in Tim Horton's, alone,
Sipping on a cup of their bitter coffee.
With no one to talk to,
And having nothing better to do,
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violent pacifists
the wild hunt begins
peacefully killing
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Many think it admirable
for someone to become an admiral.
But pacifists
prefer no fists
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Conscientious objectors
and pacifists
.. are not cowards
are not yellow
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Some aren't total
pacifists,
but about some wars pacific.
Re wars they oppose
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BIRD CHOIR

When more than 1 human
speaks at a time
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Herald heard the hark
After many many ages
herald heard his hark.
Afer eons his own song
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We should have been asked
"do we identify with war? "
Do we? We do not. We never did.
We should have been asked if we permit you,
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