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