Invitation

Wage peace.
Who will start?
It’s not just words
on a page, a screen,
a moment in time.

War has been declared
to claim land, resources
and the path to God.
There is no winner.
History, the story of bloodshed.

Peace comes in the doing,
heart to heart,
standing, sitting,
walking, writing.
Hold fast to the vision.

Landscape in a Landscape
©2023 Gerry Shepherd
painting

If a ship can sail
around the world,
so can peace. Each of us
with a hand
on the tiller.

We make the ocean,
the port of call,
the gathering place.
We hang on
throughout the storm.

For in the end,
we are all human.
We share the Earth
with animals, trees,
flowers, bugs.

Peace is a road,
waiting for us to walk it.
Hold out your hand
to another
and go.

Lisa Vihos…

…Lisa’s poems have appeared in numerous poetry journals. She has four chapbooks, two Pushcart Prize nominations, and is an organizer for 100 Thousand Poets for Change. In 2020, she was named the first poet laureate of Sheboygan. In 2022 she published her first novel, The Lone Snake: The Story of Sofonisba Anguissola.

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