Kimberly Burnham Poems

Peace is simple
like white light split by rough glass shines a diverse rainbow
in the soft worn fabric of Gandhi's example
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Learn from yesterday
peace cannot be kept by force
achieve by understanding
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Starless midnight of racism and war
in the silence of good people
come here on different ships
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You cannot find peace
by avoiding life
in every secret of a writer's soul
language and poetry
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Disguised in Cyrilic
unfamiliar Russian letters
мир mir mip means peace
as Russia and the Ukraine
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It's one of seven
hundred Papuan languages
in Anejom̃ words
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Sìth sounds like she
the end of war
a coming of order
of calm
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Peace matters
rangima'aire in Maori
who brings about peace
a woman or man
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Cumemea contains
a tired heart
or heart cume
tiredness meya
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In Kemedzung
spoken in Cameroon
peace is said, "budə"
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