Peace-Fire (Thoughts For The
New Millennium)
This world has changed in so
many ways
Restructuring continental
shifts
Each movement can be
measured in days
Rising mountains create
musical rifts
The tides of time ebb and
flow
Harmonizing universal
rapture
Filling the spaces between
the flowers that grow
If only my imagination could
capture
The heartbeat
The pulse
The vibrations that liberate
Tearing body from mind from
mesmerizing state
Then, maybe
I’d know that it is not yet
too late
To build a guild
And have the whole world
celebrate
A Peace-Fire
This world is changing
Though we’re feeling quite
blasé
For history walks a slow
line forward
Never forgetting a single
grave
The old
The young
The guilty and the framed
The trees
The rivers
The poison
The fish
The bugs
And those who don’t feel the
need to explain
About this home - Our Earth
– being a garden mausoleum
Though cycles revolve
And species evolve
And life is always as it
would
Does this disolve
Us from trying really hard
To create a Peace-Fire
Uniting all humanhood
With no more hate
And no more greed
Let’s share with each other
and make amends
For when it is time to plant
tomorrow’s love seed
We’ll need all to lend a
helping hand.
Jim Kogelheide
December 1999
In
the early winter of 2010, my wife and I went on a very special vacation. We spent one glorious week along the eastern
shores of Mexico. We knew that we were
going to be visiting some ancient Mayan ruins and with this in mind I made sure
that I took a lot of photos as well as video footage.
Soon after our return to Canada, I went to work using
these video clips to create a video for this poem. To make the video more interesting, I used
the melody from a song that I entitled ‘Under A Big Blue Sky’ to act as the
musical score for this video.
Please
enjoy…
Jim Kogelheide
2015
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