To that lit spot ahead
is as far as you’ll walk:
open green, bounded by pale shrubs
you can’t name, sky
in clabbery cloud, light blue showing through.
Storm coming, your father would say.
Speak now in the voice of peace.
The poets of the world are rising,
rising against the storm.
Speak in your poet’s voice,
In 1992, Boutros Boutros-Ghali, then Secretary-General of the United Nations, announced his Agenda for Peace. Within it, he encouraged member states to become more actively involved in “peacebuilding,” a vaguely defined term that seeks to…
Standing as we still do on the brink of a new millennium, Latter-day Saints share with their neighbors and friends across the globe a profound interest in the fortunes of twenty-first-century war and peace. Not only do we wish to live our lives and raise our children under a quiet sky in safety and peace, far from the addictive savagery to which humankind sinks in time of war, but as an increasingly international church committed to sending missionaries into all the countries of the world, who could dispute the advantages if all those countries were at peace?
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How were we to know
through the thick, smoking days,
the awful rubble of terror
I knew it was dawn
With the sun blurring whitely
Through the gray clouds,
But I’m glad someone wrote that.
The light and the words make a bridge
Across the water to the sand.
Not long after learning of the cancer that would ultimately take his life, my father faced a difficult course of experimental radiation and chemotherapy. As I drove him to the hospital to take his first…