[Edling] March 21- UNESCO World Day of Poetry: Healing Words--Poem

[Myrna Goldstein via Edling]

Thank you, David, for standing up and being counted.  Peaceful people need
to unite, create meaningful grassroots actions. All the great changes in
history -- the French Revolution, the racial justice movement in the U.S.,
the Liberian Christian-Muslim women's movement for the end of the civil
war,  to name a few -- all began by rallying decent citizens wanting a
betterment of their situations.

This is the road!  I am with you!

Myrna Goldstein, MATESL, B.S. Journalism
Pulitzer Prize Nominee for Investigative Reporting
Territet
Switzerland

On Mon, Mar 21, 2022, 12:37 David Balosa via Edling <
edling at lists.mail.umbc.edu> wrote:

> In celebrating March 21, UNESCO World Day or Poetry, may the Edling
> community enjoy the poem, *Healing Words!*
>
> Healing Words--Poem
> -----------------------------
> Healing words,
> Words not out of the woods
> of ignorance, arrogance,
> Intolerance, dominance.
> Healing words,
> Words  from the worlds
> Of wisdom, freedom
> Intercom, blossom.
> Healing words,
> Like sparkling water,
> Hard to stem from
> The fount of fathoms
> In the jungles of racism
> And corporatism,
> Impossible to spring from
> The dominant rivers.
> No handsome symptoms!
> Merely lions roaring idioms!
> “WAR! WAR! WAR! WAAAAR!”
> What!
> How ridiculous as idioms these sound in the 21st century!
> What civilization is the most barbaric in human existence?
> Any civilization in support of any form of war
> Second, any anti-intercultural attitude and governance!
> These barbaric idioms feed from one another!
> How is humanity thirsty
> For healing words!
> Not merely to extinguish the fire from the dragons
> But to reconnect, reconstruct the trust
> We must have in stock
> To interact for the common better future task!
>
> Healing words,
> Words keeping and leading
> Human existence to dignity,
> To morality, responsibility,
> Prosperity, beauty, security.
>
> Humanity speaking, drawing, singing,
> Writing, painting, dancing, translanguaging,
> In words of diversity,
> Sustains healing words
> To heal the world!
>
> Oh hearts, minds, institutions under the sky!
> Come appreciate,
> And celebrate these words today!
> Use them to decorate your inside rooms!
> May these beautiful rocks
> In pathways and at seacoasts
> Rekindle your integrity, solidarity, interculturality,
> Community, human dignity, and unity in diversity!
> Let them shine for ourselves and for the rest of humanity!
>
> --David Balosa 2022
>
>
> --
> David M. Balosa, Ph.D.
> Language, Literacy, & Culture
> Interculturality GSO President 2012-2013
> *University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC)
> **1000 Hilltop Circle, Baltimore, MD 21250*
>
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>
> The world would be a better place if we all strive for existential unity:
> communities' prosperity, social justice, peace, faith, global solidarity
> and diversity, human rights, and human dignity for all. -David Balosa
>
>
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