Peace Pals International 2017

On November 21, 2017, at the Peace Pals International Awards Ceremony the winners of the 2017 Peace Pals International Art Contest were announced.
20 pieces of artwork were selected from each age category with the theme of Nature for All – Loving the Earth.

Visit wppspeacepals.org to view all submissions from the winners and finalists and to find out more about this years contest which has the theme 'Living Peace - What does Living Peace mean to you?'

Hug

Hugs can heal,
Hugs can make you squeal,
Hugs really are a big deal!
So here's one for you,
To cheer you if you're blue,
Straight from my heart to you ❤️



Anyone for a ((((GROUP HUG))))




From Mish over at Kindspring.org

In that breath

In that breath,
you know that one - where you breathed in
the love I exhaled.
The love that grew from my chest.
From my heart center,
green as the first tendrils
of spring.

That breath, it traveled
faster than time or tech
to where you were
inhaling,
inflating your belly,
filling your lungs with tenderness
that caused your heart to grow
greener too.

I felt it bloom
with a gentleness of knowing,
fully and with no doubt,
that we are the tangled shoots
gloried and woven, rising up towards
the sky,
chaliced as holy beings,
the radiant breaths of a rayed sun.

mj poem & photo

Water is Blessed by Faeries Feet

by gryocloudy

Water is blessed by faeries feet.
Springs are purified by their skin,
they know most cruel love misteries,
and strengthen hearts like a forge.

Mischievous they sink, fragile, the canoe.
They play, nude, sweet as honey.
Loyal and beautiful presence to their forest,
they hide their smiles behind the bushes (zagua is proper noun for a bush)

Among laughter and singing, night falls.
But their dance keeps flowing over flowers.
They love, sensuous, their affection grows.

In half-light they forget their fears
If that tender ash come to life again,
they will dance tomorrow again, with great pleasure.

...

And the spanish original version:

Bendicen con sus pies las hadas, agua,
purifican manantiales con su piel.
saben los misterios del amor más cruel,
y avivan corazones como fragua.

Traviesas hunden frágil la piragua,
juegan desnudas, dulces como la miel,
son al bosque de bella presencia fiel
y ocultan sus sonrisas tras la zagua.

Entre risas y cantos anochece.
Mas la danza sigue sobre las flores,
Aman, sensuales, su cariño crece.

En penumbras olvidan sus temores
ya si aquel tierno fresno reverdece,
danzarán mañana de mil amores.

Watch "Water is Blessed by Faeries Feet" on Youtube

from nyc

☀️ 
May your day be filled with sunshine
May your day be filled with love
May every meet be filled with sweet
May you walk to the kindness beat
May many hugs find you as you walk along
May you heart be filled with song ❤️

That's the end of my ditty
Sent with love from New York City :)))


Mish at Kindspring.org

Comfortable Silence

Comfortable silence  sits on the sill sheltered with the ledge of the listening deeper. Shall I fish it from the wind flowing the curtains  fluttering as a freedom’s wink? Or maybe, I will peer thru the glass lightly fogging a heart-shaped spot that is as transitory  as the moment that has now slipped into the past where the cardinal’s song reverberates from the bare-boned scrub willows. Wrapping myself in the afghan’s colors I know to take the weave  and string a lifeline to whatever  will transpire. mj poem

Peace Pals International 2017

On November 21, 2017, at the Peace Pals International Awards Ceremony the winners of the 2017 Peace Pals International Art Contest were announced.
20 pieces of artwork were selected from each age category with the theme of Nature for All – Loving the Earth.

Visit wppspeacepals.org to view all submissions from the winners and finalists and to find out more about this years contest which has the theme 'Living Peace - What does Living Peace mean to you?