Poems for Peace: 'Transformation Peace'

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Transformation Peace

by Larry Jaffe

One morning he wakes—
realizes he has the gift
of peace

and grasps that it takes more courage
to look a soldier in the eye

place a flower in the barrel
of his rifle
than it does to shoot him.

Larry Jaffe is the International Readings Coordinator for the United Nations Dialogue among Civilizations through Poetry program, co-founder of Poets4Peace/United Poets Coalition and is the Poet-in-Residence/Director of Writer’s Voice for the Los Angeles Downtown YMCA. He writes for the About Poetry Museletter as our Southern California correspondent.

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