Multilingual Om Shanti Peace Poem by Kimberly Burnham

Om shanti cánti śanti
shánti shaanti shanti
peace in many languages

Sanskrit the Rohingya people of Burma and Bengali
Caribbean Hindustani Maithili and Nepali
peace all over Southeast Asia

Om santi in Koch spoken in Bangladesh
santipap in Thai Khmer and Laotian
śāntī in Punjabi

Shánti with nature
the green trees huffing out oxygen
ecological shaanti

Om shanti or aman in Marwari
shānti in Bhojpuri spoken in India
shānta in Bengali

Peace with society
cánti between human beings
selectively seeing friends and neighbors everywhere

Om salamti in Hindi
shāntatā in Gujarati spoken in India and Pakistan
shaamti in Kannada or Kurumba

Shanti within a spiritual peace
a sense of pride in actions
riding the flowing of emotions

Om śāntātā or śāntī in Marathi
shanti in Telegu
sānti in the Oriya of India

Environmental peace
encompassing them all
food shelter connection