Call me a hippie and I will celebrate it. When Natasha Head at New World Creative Union's Wednesday Wake-Up Call encouraged us to dance using the art form of our choice I wrote three words in Google: eat, dance, pray. I never dreamed I would actually find a movement of peace that was founded on these three words. The movement is called Dances of Universal Peace. It was founded by Samuel L. Lewis in the late 1960’s. He believed that when people, “eat, dance and pray together,” the world finds peace. So if that sounds like hippie philosophy, I will gladly embrace it. How beautiful it is to join hands with no agenda other than to show love to one another through the movement of dance.
Eat
Eat
Dance
Pray
Peace joins hands with humanity
in a circle of renewal.
War’s boots no longer march
their agony across the oppressed.
Eat
Dance
Pray
Religion celebrates a creator
without division ~ unity their mantra.
The hungry are fed from a common pantry.
Nations speak, “What’s mine is yours.”
Eat
Pray
Dance
Bodies move to the song of earth.
Love has erased the memory of hate.
There is a new world risen from discord’s ash.
Joy now sings its hallelujah song.
©Susie Clevenger 2012
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Comments
Kudos,
Roger ☺
Just lovely.