Repetition

Simon Marshall, Pilgrims, UK.

Simon Marshall is Director of Teacher Training at Pilgrims, Canterbury. He is committed to the principled application of Humanistic Approaches in the field of education. He is also a keen reader of philosophy, psychology, literature and literary criticism.
E-mail: simon@pilgrims.co.uk

In homage to Samuel Beckett who would have been 100 this year,2006.

All this before, yet once again returned.
Experience tasting as yesterday's spittle
Re-primed by today's unrequested senses.

Condemned to circularity,
Spiralling dystopic reflex.
Involunatary spasmodic attachment
To what was - and for evermore….

….Will remain - ineluctable and unchosen.
Repetition of that which is imposed
By mysterious condition.
Naming yet unnameable.

Lifeless life re-breathed
Through newly old lungs
Gasping the inhalations
From the putrid fuels of yore.

World without End
Again.

A Plea For Peace: A creative approach

Francisco Gomes de Matos

Francisco Gomes de Matos is welcoming the new Editor and sharing his latest poem-plea. He is an applied peace linguist from Recife, Brazil. For more of his poems -pleas,visit the site www.humiliationstudies.org in which there is a section on Peace Linguistics. He is in charge of it.
E-mail: fcgm@hotlink.com.br

Let´s deeply apply our imagination
And create a world free from war
Let´s deeply apply our imagination
And create for dignity an open door

Let´s deeply apply our imagination
And create a Society where Justice thrives
Let´s deeply apply our imagination
And create solidarity throughout our lives

Let´s deeply apply our imagination
And create friendly cooperation worldwide
Let´s deeply apply our imagination
And create places for enemies side by side

Let´s deeply apply our imagination
And create a world asking to be TRANSformed
Let´s deeply apply our imagination
And create a new Democracy humanizingly formed

Let´s deeply apply our imagination
And create for Peace a permanent place in the sun
Let´s deeply apply our imagination
And create equality,justice and respect for everyone

Let´s deeply apply our imagination
And create new ways of being in harmony
Let´s deeply apply our imagination
And create a life-supporting symphony

Let´s deeply apply our imagination
And create conditions for fair distribution of wealth
Let´s deeply apply our imagination
And create a world strong in ethical and moral health

Let´s deeply apply our imagination
And create new forms of communication that are always kind
Let´s deeply apply our imagination
And create communities that dignify,honor,and serve Humankind