We Will Conspire
POETRY FORMAT, 19 Jul 2021
David Krieger – TRANSCEND Media Service
We will conspire to keep this blue dot floating and alive,
to keep the soldiers from gunning down the children.
To make the water clean and clear and plentiful,
to put food on everybody’s table and hope in their hearts.
We will conspire to find new ways to say ‘people’ matter.
This conspiracy will be bold.
Everyone will dance, at wholly inappropriate times.
They will burst out singing non-patriotic songs.
And the not-so- secret password will be ‘Peace’.
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David Krieger, Ph.D. is Founder and President Emeritus of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation, and a member of the TRANSCEND Network for Peace Development Environment. Amongst several of his wide-spanning leadership endeavors in global peacebuilding, he is a founder and a member of the Global Council of Abolition 2000, councilor on the World Future Council, and is the chair of the Executive Committee of the International Network of Engineers and Scientists for Global Responsibility. He has a BA in Psychology and holds MA and Ph.D. degrees in Political Science from the University of Hawaii as well as a J.D. from the Santa Barbara College of Law; he served for 20 years as a judge pro tem for the Santa Barbara Municipal and Superior Courts. Dr. Krieger is the author of many books and studies of peace in the Nuclear Age. He has written or edited more than 20 books and hundreds of articles and book chapters. He is a recipient of several awards and honors, including the OMNI Center for Peace, Justice and Ecology Peace Writing Award for Poetry (2010). He has a new collection of poems entitled Wake Up. For more visit the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation website: www.wagingpeace.org.
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