30 JANUARY - SCHOOL DAY FOR PEACE AND NON-VIOLENCE
Today, we
celebrate the School Day for Peace and Non-Violence and, in
the English classroom, we also wanted to do something to promote these
necessary and important values among the students.
Then, I decided to read some poems about peace. Later,
students created their own poems expressing their feelings and views about this
issue.
I have chosen 3
poems from a collection of poetry created by the students from Alachua County
Schools, Florida. They contain the winning poetry from the second annual
Alachua County Peace Poetry Contest. You can find all the poems here.
The poems I have chosen are the
following:
What if the World Was Peaceful?
What if we could live a life with
no wars?
What if our nation had no battle
scars?
The nation could hold peace in a
big glass jar.
What if we did good deeds for each
other?
What if we helped the fallen rise
again?
With that, we wouldn’t have war to
bother.
As you see, I ask for not much,
just a little.
Why can’t we live in peace, I ask
all day.
‘Cause if we did, the world
wouldn’t be cold and brittle.
Lulu Fang, 5th Grade, Williams
Elementary School
Quality Poem
Peace
Peace is endless like the grains of
sand.
Peace is wonderful and very grand.
It’s unbreakable by actions or
words.
No matter what happens or occurs.
Peace is in everyone.
Jonathan Hayes, 4th Grade,
Williams Elementary School
Quality Poem
Do Not Ever Let Go!
Something we can ask,
before it’s blown.
Something we can grow,
before it’s grown.
Peace is all I ask,
And it’s not a big task.
I want peace!
Peace is within our grasp,
don’t let it fade.
More lives can be saved,
we just have to be brave.
I want peace!
And I want it now!
There is something we should do,
something that has not been done.
Something we can win,
that has not been won.
Something we can shout out,
to end all of Gods’ worries.
All we need is peace.
Peace is within our grasp,
grab and take hold.
Do not ever let go!
Kayla Rohrer, 7th Grade, St.
Patrick’s Interparish School
Quality Poem
