Peace party

[axeslade]

After watching AC twice last night (once in English, once in Japanese) and thinking on it, I thought it might be appropriate to share this poem by Angie Bowie.

PEACE PARTY
There's a party going on,
Amongst ordinary folk.
Laughing and hoping for PEACE
Peace is no joke!

Without Peace, there is no ice-cream,
Without Peace, we all eat rice,
Without Peace, Lovers are torn apart,
Without Peace, children must be educated twice.

Life in war is high velocity,
Abbreviated time on earth,
In war an old man lives to be 30,
Middle-aged 10 year-olds ignore mirth.

Peace Party, Peace Party, Peace Party!
Party on my hands and party on my feet,
Party when I'm happy
Party when I'm sweet!

So we are here; ideas guys;
Where are the old men?
What has happened to the professional talkers?
Is Peace beyond their ken?

Arms dealers pickle politics,
Business corruption jettisons enthusiasm;
Working with no benefits is pay not satisfaction,
Every country and every age have felt the spasm of WAR.

War is over-rated; war is messy and outdated;
One battle leads to another skirmish,
One detention questions thirty others,
The war idea is contagious and demented.

Sometimes wars are started,
Real estate won and lives lost
Peace is the promise of the invader,
After so many wars, peace at what cost?

30 years we have hung around,
Waiting to hear of Cyprus' fate,
30 years we have prayed for rain,
Peace and rain are much the same.

Where rain falls, flowers grow,
Crops feed friends
Prosperity extends,
To embrace all people.

Peace is food in every town,
Peace supercharges our lives,
Peace is the ability to survive.
Peace brings leisure and high-flying dreams,
Peace is discussion, not mortal screams.

There is no country free of fear,
There is no place where the air is pure
War beats the drum, soundtrack of our lives,
Peace is banished like an ugly child.
There are no ugly children,
So Peace must be our mission

Mary-Angela Bowie Barnett October 15th 2003

Comments

[lifebytes-yaya.livejournal.com]

that's interesting

[safilix-shark.livejournal.com]

I find it curious that she kept 'Bowie' in her name.

[axeslade.livejournal.com]

From an interview circa 89 on her old website

I worked to make that name famous, dear. I have no intentions of not getting my 50 percent of it.

How crazy is it that I am totally obsessed with her now?

[safilix-shark.livejournal.com]

You're just crazy in general I think. : D

[axeslade.livejournal.com]

:P ~_^ I need to get a phone card so I can call you again, gah I'm missing talking to you in real time!

[safilix-shark.livejournal.com]

I'll try downloading autoMSN in the next few days, and see if I can get it to work. *crosses fingers*

[axeslade.livejournal.com]

*squeel!*the muses have everything cross that is physically capable of crossing ~_^