This page displays poems submitted by students for the Project.
“In their wisdom, the children whose intermingled voices gave birth to the Peace Poem know that peace is far more than the absence of war. Children know that peace comes from the heart; it lives in the way we see others; it survives in the respect we show our neighbors every day. They also know, often better than adults, that today’s world is a global village and that we are all neighbors.”
Secretary-General Kofi A. Annan (http://www.un.org/cyberschoolbus/peaceday/poem/poem.asp)
Also see featured poems, selected submissions and Paul Revere School pages.
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Tess – Marlborough High School - Los Angeles
L: Life in peace. Millions of people embracing each other’s differences,
each other’s imperfections.
O: Open minds, open hearts. The ability to let those who care for you into the
deepest parts of your soul.
V: Vast kindness. Not a single feeling of anger, remorse, jealousy, grief.
E: Everyone in harmony. A perfect balance --- That is true love.
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Tyrel, Vine Street Elementary, 5th grade - Los Angeles
Peace is a place. It's like a quiet island in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean.
Peace is a smell. It smells like my grandma's cooking after church on Sundays.
Peace is an animal. It's like a horse running and getting blown by the wind.
Peace is when someone tells me, "You're a great kid!"
Peace is my favorite time of day. It's like walking home from school.
Peace is a color. It's like the color of the horizon.
Peace is a sound. It sounds like when my little brother calls my name.
Peace is a song. It's like hearing my mom sing my little brother to sleep.
Peace is me because I love to help people with their problems.
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Victor – Marlborough High School - Los Angeles
Valentine's Day
a flower in hand grows
from the heart.
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Zoe - Marlborough High School - Los Angeles
Peace
Does not need a holiday
Because it happens everyday
Everyday it is needed
Everyday it is shown
Everyday it is given
Everyday it is grown
And today is the day
Where I give it to you
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Laura - Marlborough High School - Los Angeles
This is a day
That has become popular for the guilt when you forget to buy that $6 sparkly card
For imposing calories from expensive chocolate
And for some, the realization of loneliness.
But why?
Can’t this be a day to celebrate love, life and friendship?
Perhaps today is a day to search for peace. Wholeness.
But how can we do that when the world is filled with so much hate
And so much violence?
We NEED to accept
Religion
Race
Culture
Beliefs other than our own.
Maybe you tell yourself that you are already tolerant.
Maybe you need to try a little harder.
This poem isn’t here to make you feel guilty,
But to make you stop and think about the world around us.
So that maybe, one day,
We can enjoy
A day where we appreciate some chocolate, or a homemade card.
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Chelsea - Marlborough High School - Los Angeles
Love;
simply an untouched
idealized box of mouth-watering
chocolates
ignored on the cold kitchen tile,
no different from those found
in the chocolate store on
the corner,
but these chocolates,
set aside from a world
embedded with
unrealistic truths,
are packed with enough
emotion that suddenly
the chocolates symbolize
something lost,
something gained,
something so personal
tears fill your eyes.
And at that moment one forgets
that these once two dimensional
candies actually made
you smile.
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Maddy - Marlborough High School - Los Angeles
No one on Earth
but those with scales and feathers
can remember Pangea.
When all around
was a public affair
and integration was
a way of life
not just an amendment.
The curtain of life was drawn wide open
revealing a humble
transcontinental love
stretching from one tip to the other
combined to the fullest.
Then we came along.
With opposable thumbs
and our sober calculation minds
and Pangea
assiduously began drifting away
Until each piece was its own
calling to its limbs in other waters.
Our campaigns of society can never reverse
and address
Pangea.
What us primates
will never know.
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Student
Nampa, Idaho
Light
Reflecting in her eyes
Eyes looking toward the sun
Our sun
The same sun all earthly beings look upon
Light reflecting off the ocean
Sparkling
Reflecting the light of the One Sun
The same sun that all earthly water reflects
Water flowing freely
It knows no borders
Rain drop, babbling brook, ocean wave
Washing away the separation
Uniting all rivers
One body
All people
One planet
One Sun
In Peace
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