ALAN NORDSTROM'S BLOG
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Monday, October 14, 2013
PEACE IS THE WAY
For us to own the peace, the love, the joy
We deeply yearn for means we must deploy
All means within our hearts to quell the fears
Of foes: love them and make them all our dears.
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ALAN NORDSTROM
Licensed Verse Practitioner anordstrom@rollins.edu