Poetry for Peace: Poetry for Peace

By K. S. Dwyer

K. S. Dwyer presents a collection of inspirational and moving poems about life’s experiences and how one’s perspective can lead to peace. Whether you are coping with bad fortune or great personal loss, you will find penetrating words of comfort in Poetry For Peace. It is a book to be kept within easy grasp whenever life’s losses seem too great. Poetry For Peace finds optimism in life’s greatest setbacks. It is a poetic road map for the heart and soul, pointing the way toward a renewed appreciation of life’s bounties. Dwyer’s words are an affirmation that even in loss there is goodness and meaning to be found. When life takes you to its darkest depths you are not alone in your journey; and this book will serve as your inspirational guide to a brighter, more peaceful place. ~ Phil Sears, Screenwriter: “Flyboys”

• Language: English
• Publisher: Outskirts Press
• Release date: Aug 25, 2022
• ISBN: 9781977257826

K. S. Dwyer

About the Author: KS Dwyer has been an entrepreneur and business magnate for a variety of companies, including bootstrap start-ups and public and private organizations in the education, entertainment, professional sports, and financial fields. When not working or writing, KS spends time with his family at the ocean, boarding in a kaleidoscopic barrel wave, boating, biking, horseback riding, or contemplating the rhythms of life at a baseball game. He is also the author of Poetry for Peace and Pearls for Prosperity.

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Poetry for Peace

A Poetic Road Map

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Copyright © 2022 K.S. Dwyer

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We should never fear failure or defeat, but ponder upon our unconquerable success, should we choose to greet it.

—K.S. Dwyer

Let us therefore follow after the things which make for peace, and things wherewith one may edify another.

—Romans 14:19

By holding hands we move forward.

—Zoole Proverb

To have peace we must first be peaceful.

—S. Andrus

You have greatness in you.

—B. Olsen

To our children, with love, and to those who are pursuing the path of peace.

Table of Contents

1 - Cool, Brisk Waves

2 - You Are Not Alone

3 - Learning To Pray

4 - The Work Of An Angel

5 - I Can Change

6 - A Tear

7 - I Will Believe

8 - Day Dreams

9 - A New Day

10 - Letting Go

11 - Time

12 - All Is Never Lost

13 - Childhood Dreams

14 - What Is Love?

15 - Blue

16 - A Path Of Life

17 - Remember The Rainbows

18 - A Good Word I Owe

19 - Silent Soldiers

20 - Only For A Little While

21 - Color

22 - Soul Food

23 - Live, Love, Laugh

24 - Open The Door

25 - One Calm Day

26 - The Play

27 - A New Life

28 - Butterfly

29 - Success

30 - Doors Of Gratitude

31 - Peeling The Onion

32 - Courage

33 - Seasons Of Life

34 - The Beauty Of The Rose

35 - Treasures Of Life

36 - Challenge To Find Peace

37 - In His Hands

38 - Teaching From The Heart

39 - Greatness

40 - Beautiful Daughters

41 - My Sister

42 - A Heavy Road

43 - A Centurion

44 - Breath Of Peace

45 - The Love Of My Life

46 - A Day At The Beach; A Lifetime

47 - The Gift of Mothers

48 - A Path Of Nobility

49 - From Soul to Son

50 - Fathers

51 - Your Time Has Come

52 - A Peace Keeper’s Prayer

Acknowledgements

Definitions

About the Author

Sources

Foreword

The spontaneous overflow of feelings; it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility.

—William Wordsworth

In the United States, the month of April is both National Poetry Month and Stress Awareness Month. It is in those two seemingly disparate things that harmony can be found. When K.S. Dwyer penned Poetry for Peace, he wasn’t considering the use of poetry in a clinical sense. Rather, intuitively—inherently—he understood that when reading poetry, especially poems focused on fostering a peaceful mindset—one’s heartbeat slows, one’s blood pressure lowers, and one’s breathing regulates. To that end, this second edition of Poetry for Peace has been reconfigured so that it presents as an interactive workbook, designed to encourage the reader to consider reflections, inspiration, gratitude, aspiration, and meditation through the lens of poetry.

There is a recent rise in scholarship regarding the physical and mental benefits of poetry. Psychology Today states, Writing and reading poetry can be a springboard for growth, healing, and transformation. Immersing oneself in poetry allows the reader to connect with their own subconscious and has a stripping-away effect, laying bare the emotion at the core of every experience. Put simply: Poems reflect the voice of the soul.¹

Poetry therapy, a growing field, is at the forefront of the treatment of mental health for those processing traumatic experiences, grief, or other stress. The National Board for Certified Counselors uses terms like somatic experiences, cognitive, verbal consciousness, and bilateral brain reactivation and integration that allow for those undergoing poetry therapy to process and examine their trauma. In simpler terms, the uncluttered nature of poetry allows one to get to the heart of the matter, examine it from all sides, and process an