Ideas About Writing Peace Poems

 

Acrostic peace poems

This is the simplest poetry idea in this collection.

 

Write the word, PEACE, down the left side of the page and use the letters as starters for lines:

 

Peace may

Enter your heart at

Any time. When it

Comes, please

Embrace it

 

You can use “peaceful” or “serenity” or any word with a similar meaning for this exercise.

 

 

Points of view:

 

When the blind man listens to peace

he hears children singing

When the soldier looks at peace

shadows leave his heart and disappear

When the old woman asked for peace

she smiled and died

When all the oceans sing of peace

the world will relax…

 

Any of these may be used as characters to explore their points of view, and of course you’re free to introduce your own:

 

Child… Dragon… Mother… Orphan… Politician… Poet… Rich man… Baby… Butterfly… Farmer… Politician… Clown… Hero… Pope… Ladybug… Shark… Snake… Homeless person… Ghost… Bride…

 

 

 

Peace Speaks

Write an “I” peace poem as though peace is speaking.

 

My name is peace

I am alive in your heart…

 

Speaking to Peace

Write a “you” poem as though you’re talking to peace

 

I often think of you. Often

I wish you were here

In the world…

 

My peace picture

Describe the picture of peace that you would like to paint.

I would like to wake up in the morning

and open my box of colors

and paint small birds singing to the sky.

I would paint their feathers and their songs

I would paint the lines of their flying between trees

I would paint an eagle

soaring high above its shadow

I would paint a blue butterfly

zigzagging across a field of yellow flowers

I would paint a cold wind

with coppery leaves in its hands

and white snow falling

from a dark sky

I would paint my dreams

and watch them come to life

I would paint an angel

flying across the sky

leaving a trail of light blue music.