What I like about Evelyn Augusto’s effort to help stop gun violence is that she combines poetry with action. She visits high schools to offer students tools that are not self-distructive. Evelyn’s contact info is at the bottom of the poster. Contact her if you’d like her to speak to your local high school.
At this writing, according to the Gun Violence Archive there have been twenty-five school shootings thus far this year resulting in twenty-five deaths and 118 injuries.
If you agree that we need to share this info – get the word out – please feel free to cut and paste this into a post on your own site or just use the WP reblog feature. Thank you!
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Don’t you all think it’s about time?
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Thank you, Mike! Well done.
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Love your works in the world. Thank you for being.
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Beautiful! I would happily read this poem to some of the Second Amendment conspiracy theory fanatics in my life, too. People can be so much more than their love for their deadly weapons…..
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Thank you for helping to stop gun violence. For more poetry see: Guns Don’t Save People Poets Do … a Facebook group.
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Reblogged this on Not Tomatoes.
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Thank you for helping to stop gun violence. For more poetry see: Guns Don’t Save People Poets Do … a Facebook group.
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Reblogging this to my sister site, Success Inspirers World
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Thank you, Anna!
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if guns were flowers they would be colorful
beautiful appealing and smell so nice
they would be light to carry ,would carry love
and powder of affection rather than affliction
if guns were flowers there would be gardens
more and graves less, joy more, sadness less
would soothe comfort please and caress
friends favorites fans more,enemies less
if guns were flowers I would plant them
then gather the seeds to share for PEACE
then gather some more , go to the shore
sail the seas on ancient ship,to get more
anjum wasim dar
Pakistan
CER Copyright 2018
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Annum, that’s just lovely. I’ll let Evelyn about it. She’ll be delighted.
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Thank you Jamie..it will be an honor
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I’d like to see this poem inscribed on the hearts of Americans. Please post IF GUNS WERE FLOWERS at my Facebook group: Guns Don’t Save People Poets Do: Dueling with words to stop gun violence
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Dear Evelyn Thank you so much May Peace prevail on Earth amen.
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Reblogged this on Walt's Writings and commented:
A powerful, thought provoking post by my friend Jamie at jamiededes.com
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Walt, thank you for sharing U R Not Your Gun with your readers. I am certain that while I can’t pull a gun out of a gun lover’s hand … I can, thru my poetry, get them to recognize the maddness so that eventually they have less and less interest or need for their weapon.
See: Guns Don’t Save People Poets Do … a Facebook group.
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You’re very welcome Evelyn. It was my pleasure.
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My pleasure ☺
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Thank you for posting this Jamie ☺
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