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Via Hilkka Pietilä of Finland
Verse from "A Women's
Creed"
A Vision of Culture of Peace
Bread. A clean
sky. Active peace.
A woman's
voice singing somewhere,
melody drifting
like smoke from the cook fires.
The army
disbanded, the harvest abundant.
The wound
healed, the child wanted, the prisoner freed,
the body's
integrity honored, the lover returned.
The magical
skill that reads marks into meanings.
The labor equal,
fair, and valued.
Delight in the
challenge for consensus to solve problems.
No hand raised
in anything but greeting.
Secure
interiors - of heart, home, land - so firm
as to make
secure borders irrelevant at last.
And everywhere
laughter, care, celebration, dancing, contentment.
A humble,
earthly paradise, in the now.
An excerpt from "A
Women's Creed", written in the Women's Global Strategies Meeting in
New York 1994 by Robin Morgan together with Perdita Huston, Sunetra
Puri, Mahnaz Afkhami, Diane Faulkner, Corinne Kumar, Sima Wali, and Paola
Melchior and 140 other women from 50 countries.
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