I'D RATHER BE IN UGANDA - 30 YEARS OF FIELDS OF LIFE
4 CORNERS FESTIVAL 2023 - KNITTERS KNIT CITY TOGETHER

AWKWARD DANCE OF PEACE

Stocki and Marty Fitz Welcome

As we draw near to the 2023 4 Corners Festival with the theme Dreams: Visions For Belfast, here is a poem that I wrote a few years ago about the problems and the audacious dream of peace making.

 

Between the bloody dark

And grace’s redeeming light

Between the hate riled gloom 

And the rays of forgiveness, bright

Friendships can be messy.

 

Between the blowing up

And the pieces fixed on landing

Between the bleak black funerals

And the bridegroom standing

Friendships can be messy.

 

This is an awkward dance

With partners disconcerting

The tender tentative steps

With all our wounds still hurting

Take two up and one back

Move close to hold the seams

Swirl in the suspicious space

To soar in audacious dreams.

Comments

Francis munroe

Such a poem 😊who wrote it on the whole I’m not a big fan of poetry but I love poets it’s a long story I think they should rule the world 😇frank

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