PEACE, WHEN, WHERE I FIND YOU I. If you don’t find me in your heart, search for me, invent me, sense me, touch me. You find me in the sensitive heart of all ancient stories. You find me in Earth’s birth on
MOURNING I am not at the front Safe is my daughter and son But I mourn for you, Palestine, my daughter Syria my old mum I mourn for grandmother Europe, For my cousin USA, godmother Turkey, I mourn for this and
THE VOICE OF PEACE On the mountaintops of hope, In the vastness, in the reality of action and vision, On the patterned surface of mature eucalyptus trees, On all tree trunks alive, on the branches of the future, On ethereal olive trees of wisdom, of the
LETTER FROM THE FRONT Mother, this war has changed my feelings my mind and lips find no answer two hundred days fighting in foreign lands… how many streets and cities will swim in blood? Who knows, how many more corpses
LET THE CHILDREN COME TO ME These are Jesus’ words Spoken daily and everlasting, a promise Jesus planted in children’s hearts. Jesus Christ blessed you beyond measure I remind you of Jesus’ invitation I remind you of His blessings my children of the world
A mountain of thoughts… The time has eluded us so soon, Behind the hills and above the moon, Beads of sweat roll down the cheeks. Reminiscing those hills and steeps Life used to be a carefree game, With the added
LOVE ADVENTURE If Love is lost Inside the walls of words Outside deserted words Between cold words Under hidden words Besides the blindness Of the blackness of words Love is found Between touch and silence Inside the nudity of eyesight In
IN MEMORY OF MY FATHER When were you born? As time began, In a blazing light, or at the crack of dawn When the gentle earth plays sweetly with the air. Your eyes colored with the blue of the sea reflecting
IN SEARCH OF YOU The scent of the sea travels with me from birth countless places I’ve discovered, people I yearned to meet in time, I did meet but when I touch you, a voice like the creation of all beings
FIND ME IN THIS LOVE POEM When did we meet you and I? Was it when the full moon, earth’s blessings, the sun’s intimacy, the scented ocean breeze and the breath of light opened their hearts? It was when, everywhere in
A SOLDIER’S VOICE NOBODY HEARS Three sides, many sides, define a war, Knife blades, automated greed and hate, You-enemy, me-liberator, money-greed disposable corpses hidden outside cemeteries, hearts of invisible iron, evil wills. Masked sides, words stitched with poison territories without borders
JESUS AND THE STREET PEOPLE About twenty days ago I met an angel in the park, holding a basket full of love. Love spilling over the streets love lighting the park, the benches, the trees the paving stones exhausted by pain people’s