Petition

If you are interested in signing a petition to encourage the Electors of the Electoral College on Dec 19 to vote for Mrs.Clinton, even if they are Republicans, in order to honor the fact that Mrs. Clinton won the majority of popular votes in the elections for the US presidency, go to here:

https://www.change.org/p/electoral-college-electors-electoral-college-make-hillary-clinton-president-on-december-19

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War and Peace

("Multicoloured Peace Doves Bringing Olive Branches", appliqué quilt)

War and Peace

Man invents war. Man discovers peace.

He invents war from without.

He discovers peace from within.

War man throws. Peace man sows.

The smile of war is the flood of human blood.

The smile of peace is the love, below, above.

Peace is the whole truth that wishes to enrapture humanity.

War is the whole falsehood that wants to capture humanity.

Peace begins in the soul and ends in the heart.

War begins in the mind and ends in the body.

War forgets peace. Peace forgives war.

War is the death of the life human. Peace is the birth of the Life Divine.

Our vital passions want war.

Our psychic emotions desire peace.

War is clear futility in dire spear-stupidity.

Peace is flowing infinity in glowing eternity.

Man seeks war when he thinks that the world is not his.

Man invites war when he feels that he can conquer the world.

Man proclaims war when he dreams

That the world has already surrendered to him.

Man seeks peace because his earthly existence desperately needs it.

Man welcomes peace because he feels

that in peace alone is his life of achievement and fulfilment.

Man spreads peace because he wants to transcend death.

The animal in man wars against peace in the outer world,

in the world of conflicting ideas.

The divine in man wars against ignorance in the inner world,

in the world of mounting ideals.

The animal in man wants war for the sake of war,

war to devour the snoring world.

The divine in man wants peace for the sake of peace,

peace to feed the hungry world.

– Sri Chinmoy

www.shortpoems.org/poems-on-peace/

Ode to Autumn

Ode to Autumn

Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness,

Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun;

Conspiring with him how to load and bless

With fruit the vines that round the thatch-eaves run;

To bend with apples the mossed cottage-trees,

And fill all fruit with ripeness to the core;

To swell the gourd, and plump the hazel shells

With a sweet kernel; to set budding more,

And still more, later flowers for the bees,

Until they think warm days will never cease,

For Summer has o'er-brimmed their clammy cell.

Who hath not seen thee oft amid thy store?

Sometimes whoever seeks abroad may find

Thee sitting careless on a granary floor,

Thy hair soft-lifted by the winnowing wind;

Or on a half-reaped furrow sound asleep,

Drowsed with the fume of poppies, while thy hook

Spares the next swath and all its twined flowers;

And sometimes like a gleaner thou dost keep

Steady thy laden head across a brook;

Or by a cider-press, with patient look,

Thou watchest the last oozings, hours by hours.

Where are the songs of Spring? Ay, where are they?

Think not of them, thou hast thy music too,---

While barred clouds bloom the soft-dying day,

And touch the stubble-plains with rosy hue;

Then in a wailful choir, the small gnats mourn

Among the river sallows, borne aloft

Or sinking as the light wind lives or dies;

And full-grown lambs loud bleat from hilly bourn;

Hedge-crickets sing; and now with treble soft

The redbreast whistles from a garden-croft,

And gathering swallows twitter in the skies. 

John Keats

www.poemhunter.com/poem/ode-to-autumn