Peace Poetry in Wartime

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Peace Poetry in Wartime

Editor's Note: People who are dear to my heart are those who keep campaigning for peace even after everybody else has gone to war. I appreciate that kind of tenacity. Here's a poem published in 1917 in London. That's flying in the teeth of popular sentiment. I heartily recommend that you read A Fight to a Finish and Other Songs of Peace Sung in War Time by Gertrude Ford.View over the shoulder of a young man reading a booklet about the rights of conscientious objectors in the US in the 1960s

Yes, we write poetry differently in this century. But we couldn't write better ideas.

Foes

They had fought, fought hard, with each other,
Brother with brother.
Foes were they? So men say.
They are friends to-day.
Never they saw each other.
Brother slew brother
Unhating . . . why, they forget.
Now they have met.
Each laughs out to the other,
Brother to brother,
"Friend I sought through the world! you – you
Are the man I slew1!
They have made a league with each other,
Brother with brother:
Foes, dead on the gun-swept sod;
Friends, alive in God.
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Dmitri Gheorgheni

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1Killed. There is no such verb as 'slayed', no matter what Joss Whedon's scripts say.

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