Poets Against War continues the tradition of socially engaged poetry by creating venues for poetry as a voice against war, tyranny and oppression.

Esther Altshul Helfgott

In My Dream

Patience covers the earth
like a down blanket
that warms
fingers
in Afghanistan,
Uzbekistan, Georgia,
the West Bank, Gaza,
India, Africa,
Bosnia,
the United States.

In My Dream

Humility is a mansion
whose roof oversees
soldiers shedding guns
and whose rooms
house world leaders
shaking hands.

In My Dream

Gentleness is no coward.
Love is borderless.
Beams of light have not replaced the two towers.
Danny Pearl is alive.

In My Dream

Poetry raises children
who know peace.

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