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Billie Cullimore
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since 2009-03-27

Posts 315

0 posted 2009-05-25 01:33 AM

Another poem written by By Billie during World War Two

                     PEACE
                       By Billie age 16

            What is peace?  Oh common one.
            Is it what God put on the sun?
            Or, is it on our earth below?
         Where we can watch it live and grow.

           Is it something big and great
           For only the rich to partake?
           Or, is it for the humble too?
         For little folks like me and you?

         I think it's something mighty big.
          For us to watch, love and feed.
           Until it covers all the world
         And makes a war just one bad word.

         Peace and freedom, love and light
         That's what makes a country right.
          A world as big and broad as ours
         Has no right to be freedom starved.

Writen about  1943

ziad
Junior Member

since 2009-05-23

Posts 15
London, England

1 posted 2009-05-25 01:35 AM

wow, i really like that.

Earth Angel
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since 2002-08-27

Posts 40215
Realms of Light

2 posted 2009-05-25 06:19 AM

Billie, it was a treat to read your thoughts as a young girl during the war. You had a poetic and pholosophical mind even at the tender age of 16! ~ "And baby, look at you now!"

Love 'n a warm hug,

Linda

Robert E. Jordan
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since 2008-01-25

Posts 8541
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

3 posted 2009-05-25 10:08 AM

Yo Billie,

Oh yes, 1943, I was seven then, and very interested in fighting the war with my tin soldiers, waiting for Dad to come home from the war.

You do good work Hon.

Bobby

Bloodline
Member

since 2009-05-23

Posts 236
Oklahoma

4 posted 2009-05-25 12:10 PM

Timeless poetry, the heart
yearns for respite and calm,
at any age the soul knows
these things, would that
we all listen as you,

Bloodline

Alison

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since 2008-01-27

Posts 9318
Lumpy oatmeal makes me crazy!

5 posted 2009-05-25 07:15 PM

Billie,

What a beautiful piece of history you have shared with us - and we still dream and pray for the same thing, don't we. Times are really not all that different.

We are lucky to have you among us. I have been thinking of you and your son today.

With love,
Alison

WTBAKELAR

Senior Member

since 2008-09-09

Posts 1089
Utah, USA

6 posted 2009-05-26 09:49 AM

This is another wonderful reminder of what we all want.

Peace is not obtained peacefully,
Freedom is not always free,
Our Country is the Land of the Free, Because of the Brave,
And will only stay that way if we believe.

Very nice series of poems.
Love Tracey.

Oklahoma Rose
Senior Member

since 2008-02-28

Posts 1586
Oklahoma USA

7 posted 2009-05-26 08:01 PM

I sometimes wonder the same thing. I enjoyed reading your beautiful poem of peace.

Earl Brinkman
Senior Member

since 2010-03-03

Posts 1183
Osaka, Japan

8 posted 2010-09-30 05:16 AM

I am glad that you saved this remarkable poem. When this was written I suppose many people were weary of the war. But that war did end. And I hope that the current ones will end soon.

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