Two centuries ago, Percy Shelley wrote that “poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.” Yet elite power has routinely vetoed their best measures. Still, the ability of poetry to inspire and nurture is precious. #WorldBEYONDWar
Episode 53 of the World BEYOND War podcast is devoted to a friend and presumed hostage, Judih Weinstein Haggai, poet, mother, grandmother, teacher and peace activist.
Educator and peacebuilder Nazir Ahmad Yosufi was born in 1985 in Afghanistan, and has persisted through decades of Soviet war, civil war and U.S. war to devote his life to helping people see a better way. #WorldBEYONDWar
Beware not to assist in the seduction of yourself.
“What happened to the post war dream?”
Oh, Maggie, Maggie, what did we do?
Too many fairy tales of war
For killers’ glory told.
This story of another sort:
How laughter made war stop.
