Peace, pax, la paix
It’s an absence—
a gap
that space
without a breath
that calm
outside the act
It’s a mother
suckling her child
a stirring deep
subtle, hidden
And it’s all of us,
together—
community
nonbinary
It’s in the continuum;
and it’s by degree
It’s who we are
beneath, or who
we were
and long
to be again
This photo taken by Catherin J Pascal Dunk at Gosford Library, NSW in 2024.
Cover image is from Pexels Free Photos.
This poem was first published in 2018 on the Central Coast Council website, after it was awarded second prize in their inaugural poetry competition. The theme for the competition was ‘peace’.
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Wordflower 
Such a great poem.
You be famous.
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“Nothing but good words for the dead”
said the cynical poet, about the word ‘peace’.
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War makes men dead
and then peace comes;
but not for them
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