the daylight grew and covered all of the sky

We are all just children breathing, look 

Our hands are open

We rest in the quiet rhythm of the earth

The quiet rhythm of being human

We need peace after so many years of war

Our hearts are so tired

If only presidents and kings could meet in their dreams

If only the soldiers would set aside their weapons

And hold each other close through the long nights

Each one feeling the chest of the other 

As it rises and falls

There is no war in us when we sleep

James Lee Jobe 

Fierce compassion means seeing the suffering of our times clearly, and being willing to take a stand, to act to relieve that suffering however we can. 

Kaira Jewel Lingo

I try to leave some emptiness in life, it feels right to do so. Only one day happens at a time, and that works for me. I can see through my life to my death, and likewise, I can see through my death and so better enjoy living. Just now the daylight grew and covered all of the sky. How lovely.

James Lee Jobe 

LINK: In the Woods of Language, She Collects Beautiful Sticks, a poem by Valzhyna Mort

I wrote too many poems, I suppose

Who did I think would read my nonsense

When morning came sliding toward the end of night

Or evening came to the length and breadth of day

And candles flickered casting shadows

That flutter against the troubled walls

The words, the images, line up

Like heavily armed, young paratroopers

Ready to leap into the raw wind

And become the children of gravity

Time is nothing, merely a concept

And the stack of poems no one will read

Grows like a weed in midsummer 

James Lee Jobe 

We cannot, of course, save the World because we do not have authority over its parts. We can serve the world though. That is everyone's calling, to lead a life that helps.

Barry Lopez

Raise your words, not your voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.

Rumi

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James Lee Jobe