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

Debra Olson

53 years old
Minneapolis, MN

I am a nurse who helped start Nurses for Peace (e-mail: nursesforpeace@msn.com). I am pursuing a master's degree in Transcultural Nursing.

Women Weaving Peace

I see women everywhere gathered around kitchen tables and cooking fires
Laughing, singing, talking, sipping coffee, tea and guava juice
While they erase borders on world maps.

I see women everywhere cutting their nation's flags into squares, exchanging the pieces, Then stitching them together into colorful quilts that will keep them warm
While they dream of their new sisters and brothers around the world.

I see women everywhere turning missle silos into museums, military bases into music camps
Armored tanks into jungle gyms and rifles into windchimes, until...

No child goes hungry. No child loses a leg to a landmine, a mother to an incoming missle, a father to a plane turned bomb. Until...
Children everywhere sleep peacefully at night.

Copyright 2001

PERHAPS

P erhaps if we see
E ach person we meet
A long our brief journey through life as
   a precious  
C hild of god, our incredible planet
E arth, spinning a sea of stars, will become a

Garden of Eden again

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