I Want
I want to live in a world filled with compassion and thoughtfulness.
Deidre
Cleveland, OH
My Voice Is
My Voice is:
Time Peace Blessed America
Seconds float
Serene Peace
around Clock Wise
Whence Spring Minutes
simmer Summer Hours
Fall onto United States
Thanksgiving
communal bounty
Where WE Winter
HeartBeat Family
Holiday Greetings.
David Lester Young
Austin, Texas
Give & Take
A declaration of mankind: give and take, no heart beats alone
Benjamin
Cleveland, Ohio
My Voice Is
A roaring riptide in an ocean of change
Austin Monigold
New Philadelphia, Ohio
My Voice stands for
My voice stands for any person who feels less than
Madelynn Jessberger
Kent, Ohio
My Voice Is
the sunshine on the mountain, My voice is a new day, My voice is a new way, My voice is a bird in the sky, no one can take the freedom away of my voice.
Raghav Sharma
INDIA
My Voice Is
My voice is a string of pearls that never ends
RebeccaVujanov
Kent,Ohio
My Voice
My voice cries out for the weary,
For those tortured by hate and destruction.
My voice comforts those who long for a kind word and the appreciation they deserve.
My voice advocates for those who can't speak for themselves,
Even if I stand alone
My voice is a sword, cutting through lies.
My voice is an architect, constantly building and encouraging.
I am my voice.
Grace Koch
Delaware
Give & Take
I want the purple heart I wear to go away, held my head high, a silent concert of valor, while wounded by the draw, of blood that circulated, thru shared organs, willed by that half brain. I want a harmony band, gentle soothing abundant gestures of drifting clouds
Victoria L. Buck
Athens, Ohio
My Voice stands for
My voice stands for the work of advocates,
The sweat of laborers.
The tears of lonely children.
My voice stands for endangered species,
The needs of our planet-home,
For peace among the cultures of the globe.
Samantha Terrell
New York
Give & Take
Gather your bullets and melt them with love
Josh Hurand
Tucson, AZ
I Want
to take you in my arms, friend. Hold you
so you'll never feel alone again.
January Gill O'Neil
Beverly, MA
My Voice stands for
My voice stands for a more understanding future. My voice stands for a future where Muslims, blacks, Mexicans, the LGBTQ+ community, and anyone who has faced oppression can wake up feeling safe and equal. My voice stands for a world without war, a world without race, and a world where humanity cares more about others than about themselves.
Jillian Cleland
USA
My Voice stands for
My voice stands for a more understanding future. My voice stands for a future where Muslims, blacks, Mexicans, the LGBTQ+ community, the disabled, and anyone who has faced oppression can wake up feeling safe and equal. My voice stands for a world without war, a world without race, and a world where humanity cares more about others and than about themselves.
Jillian Cleland
USA
My Voice Is
My voice is a particle of sand, overlooked and lost in the motions
Fred
elsmere
My Voice
My voice winds up the stalk of the bright yellow sunflower
seeking the sun upon me
to illuminate
a truth
I am here now
You are also here
Together we can create beauty
Climb the stalk
reach the light
blossom
Lisa Falk
Tucson, AZ
My Voice
dances on the dawn of peace.
Rebecca Shuman
Green Valley AZ
My Voice stands for
Working towards a future of no more killing and nonviolence for our fragile planet.
Thomas A. Fee
Freehold, NJ
My Voice stands for
My voice stands for true equality. Equality for those who know no support. My voice stands for the voiceless
Missy fontana
Warren Michigan usa
My Voice Is
Strength across generations to reveal clarity and sprit
Joanne Gitto
Canton ohio
My Voice stands for
the peace of the ancestors, the strength of the mothers and fathers, and the innocence of the children.
Shannon
Kildare, Ireland
Give & Take
“Take back that keen sorrow and give our baffled souls the reach to mourn no more.”
Ned Madden
San Clemente, Calif.
My Voice Is
My voice shudders to say
The things that were in play
In the mind of my student
Who thought it was prudent
To take his life away
That left me in dismay
My voice is his voice
His voice prays for justice
For a world without guns
For a peace second to none
Anonymous
Anonymous
My Voice stands for
My voice stands for the right to be safeguarded from harm, of all kinds
Ciara Sheehan
Ireland
My Voice Is
My voice is like a daffodil
Arriving to defy the bleak and stoic sky
To challenge the very soil that gave it life, that still holds its roots
Slowly, it begins to unfurl each petal
Until - all at once - its inner self is on display
In all its brazen beauty
You do not have to admire it
But you cannot ignore it.
It boldly raises its head to ask with the innocence of new hope:
What if
Bethany English Sava
Tallmadge, OH
I Want
I want my voice to speak for those who don't know what to say
Julia Stoll
Buffalo
My Voice
My voice; release the sound, the vibration of my soul, to love, to heal, to mend our world.
Laurean Kile
Monongahela, PA
I Want
I want us all to bloom like wildflowers.
elizabeth
Ohio
Give & Take
Take our fears and insecurities and transmogrify their fierce energy, and give them back to us as courage and protective instincts.
Janice Gerda
Cleveland, Ohio
My Voice Is
My voice is the wind in the trees, like whispers whisking by until Mother Nature's full fury is unleashed.
Katherine
Arizona
I Want
I want everyone to be looked at and treated equally.
Bob Camry
United States of America
My Voice
My voice fights. My voice serves.
Ria
USA
My Voice stands for
My voice stands for the peaceful bliss we all deserve.
Suzanne Roberts
Miami, Florida
Give & Take
Take your hurried thoughtless actions and return to a state of being, give meaning to each step, each breath, each moment. Live keenly for all our lives to flourish.
Danielle Miller
Harvard, Massachusetts,USA
Give & Take
Take back our endless fear spurring needless hate and violence and give us endless faith, hope and love in humanity.
Samantha Poole
Copley
My Voice
Prays for a world of love and compassion
Ev
Texas
My Voice
My voice for peace, beams out as gently, as the rays from the golden sun
Yvonne PhelpsCollins
O’Fallon, Illinois
I Want
Trans rights
Bob
Cleveland
I Want
I want us to NOT sin by silence, when we should PROTEST against injustice, tyranny and oppression! We must speak to right the wrongs of many !
David A Hancock Alumni 1968
Chesterland Ohio
I Want
I want someone, anyone, everyone to take a sharp knife, (pocket, steak or Bowie, nature doesn't care) and carve away at the tree of hate until nothing is left save for splinters to ignite a huge bonfire, viewable from outer space, and dedicate it to a world of diversity, acceptance, opportunity and, above all, love for one another.
Jan H. Kennedy (class of 1970)
Dellroy, Ohio
My Voice
shines a beam on the silver lining. My voice finds the goodness, the sweetness, the glee.
Jaclyn Garver
Fort Wayne, Ind.
My Voice stands for
My voice stands for those who have lost loved ones to the abyss of mass incarceration.
Adrian
Ohio
My Voice Is
Mother Nature's roar
Hallie
Pittsburgh
My Voice Is
My voice is a newborn Phoenix rising from the ashes of yesterday’s learning.
Tracy Ahern Owen
Katy, TX
My Voice stands for
My voice stands for May 4 torn from life transformed from happy days to holy moments.
Dolores Pinchot
Ohio
My Voice Is
is a clanging gong to remind others I am still here.
Kelli A. Brickman
Chardon, OH
My Voice stands for
Peace! Peace is more than the absence or threat of war; there is no Peace without the obliteration of Tyranny.
Dr. Carlton R. McHargh
Tuscaloosa, AL
My Voice Is
My voice is the loudest voice when joined with other voices shouting, singing and whispering for peace.
Barbara Murphy
Florida
My Voice
My voice shouts. My voice fights.
My voice stands for those whose voices are silenced.
I want people to care about others.
Take back the greed and give us endless generosity.
Let's stop the mantra "me, me, me".
Bobbie Szabo
Chagrin Falls, Ohio
My Voice
My Voice is a PURPLE burst of morning skyline spreading out above us all at dawn.
My Voice is a mountaintop of fresh LAVENDER flowers covering us all in it's most intoxicating, soothing scent.
My Voice represents ALL the GIGGLES available to humanity to rise above the Covid-19 Pandemic and defeat it communally.
My Voice HEALS! My Voice BLASTS around our globe!
I want the renewed OZONE to fill all earthly creation; resetting it to manufacturer's warranty specifications!
I want educators and all essential personnel to know their personal and collective WORTH AND VALUE that BRILLIANTLY light the globe!
Take back all earthly failures humanity created across time in exchange for our communal resilience and well-being sprouted as a gigantic global BOUQUET fragrant and intoxicating to all!
My Voice is globally resonant as gigantic, beautiful, BUBBLES iridescently encircling us all with PEACE, LOVE, AND JOY FOREVER!!!
Dorcus Johnson
Earth
My Voice stands for
the earth and all creations that cannot speak for themselves
Megan Haftl
Pittsburgh, PA
Give & Take
Take away confusion and give us wisdom.
Robert E Kelley
Dallas, TX
My Voice
My voice beckons but may be unheard!
Robert E. Kelley
Dallas, TX
My Voice stands for
My voice stands for the "Jungle Gym" on the playground, may it not be crushed or bent from the tanks no more.
Scott Swan
Kent, OH
My Voice
My voice is not the loudest or the softest but it is just as important.
Jaynell Nicholson
Pittsburgh, PA
I Want
I want that everyone stay home and the loss never happens.
keithomas
akronohiounidedstatesof america
Repetition
I don't have an answer to any prompt, but I do have a stanza related to May 4th.
The Governor was running for re-election
He called out the National Guard
Boys and men with little direction
And then there were deaths in our backyard.
Ruth Moore
Cuyahoga Falls, OH born and raised; now Huntington Woods Michigan
My Voice
My voice encourages you to always be your best.
Linda
Randolph, OH
My Voice Is
My voice is the sound of a sparrow hawk's wing in flight between the trees.
Shannon
Athy, Ireland
I Want
I want gun free families, communities, cities
and states. How beautiful that would be.
Cambridge, Ma.
My Voice Is
My voice is the ocean’s whisper echoing from an empty shell: may we know peace.
KBK
Austin, Texas
My Voice
My voice grows weak from the pressure.
Carrie
Ravenna, OH
My Voice Is
My voice is the wind playing with leaves
Angela
Kent
My Voice stands for
My voice stands for life-long learning and a better future through education.
Amy
Kent, OH
My Voice stands for
unconditional love
Lindsay
United States
My Voice
my voice shouts sunlight and pain for you to hear.
Abigail Krukemeyer
Ohio
Repetition
I am all things, I am the universe
I am nothing, emptiness
In spite of that, or more importantly
Because of that
I am
And I fear nothing
JohnD
Youngstown, Ohio
My Voice Is
heard
Kayla
Keizer, OR
I Want
I want a world where we honor love, happiness, and peace and the differences that make us unique bring us together.
Danielle Hunter
Streetsboro
My Voice
My voice speaks for those who can no longer speak for themselves. My voice speaks for those who have been silenced. My voice cannot be silent in the void shaped by their absence.
Cat Russel
Canal Fulton, Ohio
My Voice
and if I spoke in anger– at least I have spoken! At least I have spoken for the voiceless, the disenfranchised, the displaced, the hunted and exploited creatures on this shrinking planet!
Susann Moeller
Hamburg, Germany
My Voice Is
Wise
Kathy Basinger Ramey
Ottawa, Ohio
Give & Take
Take back the borders, the divisiveness, the propaganda. Give us back our lives, our kindness, our compassion.
Carrie Circosta
Ravenna, Ohio
Give & Take
Peace is good war is bad my foot is going up Satan's... donkey
Elijah
Cleveland
Repetition
I want us to be feeling, feeling, feeling
Ajdin Kulic
US
I Want
to stuff the barrels full of spring blooms
leaving no room for the bullets
to breath
John Kaminsky
Cleveland Heights, OH USA
My Voice Is
My voice is a song
Jon
Grand Haven
My Voice
My voice box aches to be used
Xan
Birmingham, MI
My Voice stands for
the voiceless creatures of our planet - from the polar bear to the blue macaw, the African elephant to the monarch butterfly. My voice wants to howl with the wolves, let us co-exist in peace, let us each take what we need, let us not hoard anything but peace.
Yamini Pathak
New Jersey
My Voice
My voice likes carrots
Kent Clark
Ravenna, OH
My Voice Is
My voice is the light drizzle after the thunderstorm.
Milly Wang
Toronto, Canada
My Voice Is
My voice is a trumpet of peace.
Jordan
Ohio
My Voice Is
the snow silently falling on a cold winter's night
Carrie
Ravenna, OH, USA
Repetition
I will not let go
of the hand of my brother
who loves evil. I will not
close him out, even as
I yearn to vanquish
his hate, all hate.
Pamela Murray Winters
Bowie, Maryland
I Want
I want to return to the world of my childhood backyard, the innocence of the hill
Pamela Murray Winters
Bowie, Maryland
I Want
I want happiness for all, not just 1%
Donovan
Akron, Ohio
My Voice Is
the echo of my ancestors
Blaire Thompson
Nassau, Bahamas
I Want
I want to show kindness not rage.
Jeff Barr
Canton, OH
My Voice Is
the armed soldiers blocking the road by the airport
Julie
Munroe Falls Ohio USA
My Voice Is
My voice is such, hard to put into words
It is truly the collective voice of all who stand for the truth
It's not just a voice, it's a fight for peace
It is the voice of Christ and the voice against hypocrisy
Let's make it so roaring, the whole world should hear this and only this
Gavi
Pune, India
I Want
I want the heavens to smile on us when day is done, and know there is some light in this vast vacuum of dark
Vasi T
USA
Give & Take
Take away the misunderstanding and give us hope
Sandy Vickers
Franklin, Tennessee U.S.A.
Give & Take
Take away the misunderstanding and give us true insight
Sandy Vickers
Franklin, Tennessee, U.S.A
My Voice
is an emblazoning of Truth and Grace for beauty is in all things!
Jiditte Francois
USA
My Voice Is
about feeding the huddled masses of refugees fleeing bullets and bombs that cripples and throttles their countries devastated by war. They never have a voice to ask their corrupt leaders why they chose destruction instead of trade.
Heidi B Morrell
LOS ANGELES, CALIF, USA
My Voice Is
My voice is every planted seed, by my Parents, that wants the world to bloom along with me.
Preeti Shah
Philadelphia, PA
My Voice stands for
My voice stands for an end against police brutality.
This song right here expresses my great originality.
Innocent black people getting gunned down.
Black and brown.. don’t make a sound we profound.
We gotta stay safe.
They still treating us like we they damn slaves.
This shit so crazy man it’s happening everyday.
Police tell us put our hands up.
Most times we just really wanna duck.
The white man won’t stand down, they see us as a threat.
But black people know it’ll probably be their last breath.
Steady screaming “No Justice, No Peace”.
But when will the violence cease?
Maleah Houston
Cleveland, Ohio
My Voice stands for
My voice stands for all creatures, furred or winged, two or four foot, for all their children, and for all their habitat to be safe and secure.
Deborah Straw
Burlington, VT
My Voice
My voice rings true blue, oceans, waves, because she is my Warrior, my Muse, for Peace.
Dorothea Potter Teipel
Falls Church Virginia
My Voice
my voice,
hoarse with age
demands truth.
Judy Shepps Battle
Mickleton, NJ
My Voice Is
My voice is a Blue Morpho Butterfly in flight. When I land, I fold my wings in prayer.
Shelly Reed Thieman
Des Moines, IA
I Want
I want the disease of greed to to see its demise I want our ancient forests to persevere and thrive
Caity Parson
Garberville CA
My Voice
My voice calls out remembering those who marched for me,
before me, for all of us. They are now gone, but the peace banner carried on and on
lifted up
lifting us up.
Mary Rose Dougherty
Waterbury, Vt
My Voice Is
My voice is a resonant wave sending ripples of peace throughout the globe,
Bonnie Bernard
Fallbrook, CA, United States of America
My Voice Is
an echo of my mother's before me.
Samantha
New Jersey
My Voice Is
My voice is the cry of a human heart hungry to be heard
Michael S. Glaser
St. Mary's City, MD
My Voice
My voice grows
Mary Keating
Rowayton, CT
My Voice
my voice
a fallen leaf
gliding homeward
Clarissa Jakobsons
Aurora, OH
I Want
I want my voice to blend with others the world over to sing out: PEACE and HARMONY forever.
Rosemarie Pace
Middle Village, NY, USA
My Voice stands for
fine-lined red-lining,
streetways speak frayed threads like in the rug your mother swept accusations under.
bullets ricochet off church bells,
you hear them crack as you hide somewhere in the red sea of pews.
candle sways dry tears,
the snow stains your smiling photographs lying on the sidewalk.
I am you: trapped, frozen, afraid.
you are me: burning, hurting, stone.
my heart opens for you,
because you are who
I am not.
my voice stands for you,
because you are who
I am not.
my fist rises for you,
because you are who
I am not.
you and I do not share the same lives
but we share the same fight.
Jessyca Stoepker
Petoskey, MI
My Voice Is
my voice is in the soul of my heart strong, like it beats.
Jacquese Armstrong
Edison NJ USA
My Voice
My voice sings for peace and kindness.
Laszlo Slomovits
Ann Arbor, Michigan
Give & Take
Take back the endless wars of the rulers and all the money they gain with them and give us a world of equality and justice.
Veronica Tarozzi
Milan, Italy
Give & Take
Give us the ebb and flow of clear waters and take away our arrogance in caring for the connections with Terra Nostra
J. Jill
Long Island, NY
My Voice stands for
My voice stands for,
Racial equality.
Marching up and down the streets,
With signs.
Fighting for them to
listen.
We put our hands up,
But they throw us in hand cuffs.
Beating us down,
When we stand up.
My voice stands for,
gender equality.
Women taking a stand
And saying “me too”
But they don’t care
Then we say “times up”
And they still turn away.
But they won’t break the strength.
My voice stands for,
My planet
Plants are dying,
animals,
And maybe people
Are going extinct.
The world is a wasteland.
Our these the signs of a Armageddon.
We say no more!
I stand for us!
Jayonna Johnson
Cleveland,OH
Give & Take
Take back the Izhmash Saiga 12-gauge semiautomatic shotgun, Bushmaster Model XM15-E2S .223-caliber semiautomatic rifle,
Glock 20 10mm semiautomatic handgun, and
Sig Sauer P226 9mm semiautomatic handgun that Adam Lanza used at Sandy Hook Elementary School seven years ago, and give to this world those twenty-six beautiful lives.
Candice M. Kelsey
Los Angeles, CA
My Voice stands for
I stand against police brutality.
Maleah Houston
Cleveland, Ohio
My Voice Is
Is the breeze on the calm sea. It is the belly of the storm. My voice is the echo of a silent cave. It is the place in which my words are born.
Adam Ditchburn
Hull, England
Give & Take
Hope flies best when a few feathers fall; give light, for lightness is all.
Dorrie Iten
Switzerland
Give & Take
Take these words swirling in the wind and let them be heard to the ends of the earth and let them echo back on the waves of the waters, no more pain, let there only be peace.
Ashley Peterson
Casey, il
I Want
I want the clearly marked trail to peace
to be found again
the breadcrumbs still there
the voice of the sea in our ears
singing It is possible, yes,
Mike Gullickson
Georgetown, Texas 78633
I Want
I want us to carve peace into the stone of disbelief. I want us to recover the hearts of ourselves. I want us to remember the shape of love can be sculpted even after hate.
Liza Sparks
Colorado
My Voice stands for
My voice stands for all the families who lost loved ones to petty fights
Shambhavi Pradhan
Dubai, UAE
I Want
I want you to survive to love again.
H. A. Lipstadt
Los Angeles, California
I Want
I want to walk to school behind the goats and be greeted by the bustle of students, lining up in front of my classroom, and the end-of-year picnic, even though we had to carry the uncooked food and all of the pots and clay braziers on the back of a donkey, walking for hours before we found the perfect spot.
I want to join the Peace Corps, again.
Julie R. Dargis
Minneapolis, MN USA
Give & Take
Give us a tool to dig in the Garden of our Soul and plant the only root that will grow forever, omnia vincet amor.
Robert Knox
Quincy, MA
My Voice Is
My voice is a mute witness
Clarinda Harriss
Baltimore
My Voice
My voice like the conscience one speaks against the evil the other thinks and seeks only good and peace.
My voice, the day and night, always showing hope after terror,
My voice, the morning bird; Robin, that sings to clear the early morning fog of winter,
My voice, the inner muse to my poetry, the solution that saturates my unforgiveness to forgiveness.
Scarlet Clinton
Nigeria
My Voice Is
My voice is oceans carrying the world's weight.
Miles Liss
Alexandria, VA
My Voice stands for
My voice stands for the vanished smiles
Of the silenced children,
Whose innocence dies
Starved and caged, in the knowledge
Of having been undone
By our self-serving lies:
Who grow up to know
Hell so intimately, they go
Seeking it when sent to Heaven.
Hibah Shabkhez
Lahore, Pakistan
My Voice Is
My voice would call out
the names of children
in their home language,
bring them out of the desert
to where we could sing together
in the shade of mother trees:
safe, safe, safe.
Madronna Holden
Eugene, Oregon USA
My Voice stands for
My voice stands for justice, the hurt, and the voiceless.
Elizabeth
Canada
My Voice
My voice whispers alone
In congregation shouts
James Robert Kane
Chaska, MN
Give & Take
Take back the threats and give us a sign that you see us.
Cheryl Clark Vermeulen
Boston, MA
I Want
I want my friends in Libya and Gaza never to jolt awake again to the flash and thunder of explosions. I want no Syrian child ever to have to flee to safety, leaving a pet behind. I want every refugee to find safe haven in a world that holds their lives sacred. I want the tears of the past to be enough, to be the last.
Jody
Virginia, USA
My Voice stands for
My voice stands for those like me
Winds have a way of talking
To orange trees before the snow
Dark dripping nights, wet and cold
It is me, myself shedding leaves
Changing steadily like the landscape
Naked trees have limited choices
Heads hung in shame never complain
The same wounds are green again
In my shades, sit lovers once again
What you speak, the words I hear
What thoughts you have of around
Nuclear arms and suicide bombers
Mountains falling like flakes
Lakes of gloom, rivers of blood
Seeds of hunger sowed in farms
Let me have it all from your eyes
A spark, a flame to dispel the divide
A flash, a flicker, for alarms to subside
My voice is that rain every desert needs
Dr.Rubeena Anjum
Dallas, Texas, USA origin Pakistan
My Voice stands for
My voice stands for spoken justice in a silent sea of injustice.
R. Jahan
New York, USA
I Want
I want the silence of peace ushering in a new day
Benediction from millions of souls will bring
love our way.
Purabi Das
Canada
My Voice Is
My voice is like of a wounded turtle dove robbed of it's love who was ripped in half with a knive
Jane W. Mwai
Nairobi Kenya
My Voice Is
My voice is a trumpet announcing a new dawn, a world free of hate in every state
Jane w. Mwai
Nairobi Kenya
Give & Take
Take back our stubborn will to be right at all costs and give us open hearts.
N.M.B. Clark
Beverly
My Voice Is
is an old voice shouting encouragement to the future
Barbara Huntington
Chula Vista, CA, USA
My Voice
My voice refracts, like a prism, the illuminating words of past and present peacemakers, exhaling a rainbow of promise.
Susan L. Lipson
Poway, CA
I Want
I want people to wake up to the totality of God.
Leila Casusi
Philippines
My Voice Is
My voice seizes the day, defies the slur of bullets.
Barbara Rosson Davis
Greensboro, North Carolina
My Voice Is
My voice is children's laughter louder than
bullets, yet soft as flowers to the ears
of my heart
John C. Mannone
Niota, TN
I Want
I want to be heard,
Not because I wish for
But because I deserve to.
I do exist, though invisible to your eyes
Making the particles of your breath dance
Like your beating heart, in perfect rhythm
Carried by the blowing wind like a seed
Ready to germinate instantly as it touches
The dusty ground, the keen ears in my case.
I am the question completing myself
In the form of an answer.
I am an inspiration for your thought
And a thoughtful word to be shared.
In fact, I am the thought
And the spoken word as well.
They call me Voice.
It is my identity, my quality and
The state of my existence. And I want you
To hear me.
V S Balakrishnan
Tiruchirappalli, Tamil Nadu, India
I Want
I want this message to go out to all of space, toward the light.
annie mcwilliams
columbus, ohio, usa
My Voice
My voice will not be shut down.
A. Podracky
Queens, New York
My Voice
My voice prays for a world filled with love and kindness for all.
Nancy Chiarello
Pawling,NY
My Voice Is
I want a moment of clarity for a lonely girl wanting to jump off the ledge
Thys Sloan
Cape Town South Africa
My Voice Is
My voice is warmth on a cold day.
Mary Bone
Oklahoma
My Voice
My voice has the power to change wrong to right, It infuses hearts and minds with the best insight, we must unite so the light of peace shall continue to shine bright
Thomasina Rushing
SC
My Voice Is
My voice is a lioness roaring.
Kritika
India
I Want
I want everyone's voice to be heard and every story to matter.
Kate McCarroll Moore
Danville, California
My Voice Is
My voice is bootiful
King Squilliam
London
My Voice
My voice has deepened with experiences
I am no longer oblivious
My voice will not be silenced
Joey
New Jersey
Give & Take
Take the weary and give them eagles' wings.
Joselyn
New Jersey
I Want
my voice to be heard
lexi
hillsdale
I Want
I want their voices to be heard and their problems to be recognized.
brigida
hillsdale
I Want
I want to feel safe as the future generation. I want there to be a future. I want the chance to grow up as I wish. I want to not be rushed by having responsibilities piled on my shoulders.
Erin Choi
Hillsdale, NJ
My Voice Is
My voice is a four leaf clover on St. Patty's Day.
Jason
New Jersey
I Want
I want to never run through the meadow, for I would not notice the weeds.
Kelly
New Jersey
I Want
I want the simple and kind gestures that contributes to the limited amount of joy.
Taylor
Hillsdale
I Want
I want everyone to experience the freedom of doing whatever you want.
Stephanie
Hillsdale
I want an array of colors.
Yee Cheng
Give & Take
what you are given
WOlfgang
HOuston
I Want
I want everyone to experience the wholesome feeling of a hug.
Danielle B.
Hillsdale
I Want
I want the world to be peaceful
Thomas
Hillsdale
I Want
I want my students to believe in peace and humanity, to know and glow with the potential of our world.
Kate Overgaard
Hillsdale, NJ
Give & Take
Take the awkward silence of centuries of injustice and fill it with glorious music, passed down from mother to child, calling for freedom, spreading hope.
Katrien Vance
Crozet, VA
Give & Take
Give me the gun, I shall throw it away and take your disappointment for granted.
Nataliia
Ukraine
My Voice
My voice shapes borrowed songs into new melodies. My voice sings hope.
L. Rose Reed
Aurora, CO, USA
I Want
I want to not have to want any longer
David O'Keefe
Washingtonville, NY
My Voice Is
My voice is an echo in a canyon that does exist. I call for peace; the canyon does not answer but I call again. And again.
T. Francis Curran
Pleasantville, NY
My Voice stands for
My voice stands for the thick blood staining the curbside,
My voice stands for those gutted like fish in the open street- side,
My voice stands for the millions marching, screaming in silence,
My voice stands for the unnamed and unspoken.
Megha Sood
United States
My Voice stands for
All those who have been silenced, let them be heard
Tricia Knoll
Williston, Vermont
My Voice Is
My voice is a roller coaster ride to a dream land.
Kritika
India
My Voice Is
My voice erases borders, burns flags, topples walls.
Maril Crabtree
Mission, KS, USA
Give & Take
Give the planet and all its people your commitment to just action
Take back your words of wisdom and well wishes
Tom Herman
San Diego, CA
My Voice Is
My voice changes just like a tree leafs every season
Alaa
Akron
My Voice Is
Take our endless wars and give us endless peace
Alaa
Akron
My voice can be heard
for miles.
Cries and screams
erase the smiles.
My voice takes a stand
for justice and peace.
Please! Please!
Let the violence cease.
For all the children
Violently uprooted in their prime.
Justice and peace
For this unspeakable crime.
Jeanine M Gervais
Trinidad, West Indies
My Voice stands for
My voice stands for three brothers who would have, should have, could have been there; but must not have been, couldn't have been.
Alma Kryah-Deblasio
Akron, Ohio
My Voice Is
Austin Austin Austin
Rebecca
Austin, Texas
My Voice stands for
My voice stands for empowering women in every part of the world.
Anna
Germany
Give & Take
take back our indifference and silence and give us empathy, a shared experience
Jordan
Kent
My Voice stands for
I want peace in developing countries
Wang Feng
Jingzhou, China
My Voice stands for
My Voice stands for all the people including children and elderly, blinded and maimed In Kashmir by Indian Occupational forces.
UBAID Tantary
Kashmir
I Want
I want the global Peace Tree to grow larger, where every crippled bird can find their shelter...
I want a Peace Tree as high as the sky, where every broken heart, and muted soul can wipe tears from their eye...to get their secured shade underneath...to feel the bliss of fresh water & soft breeze..
I want no more conflict nor selfish race...Feel the bliss of every land & space...No more war🤚🏻for that’s what I really abhor! Please let’s all Enjoy the real taste of peace!
🌳🌳🌳
Enaam M. M
Saudi Arabia 🇸🇦
My Voice
My voice stands a harp for the peaceful masses,
Summoning Eirene to put massacres into altar.
I looked at my two toddlers’ orphaned faces,
When they unawarely missed their father!
How are they gonna pass cruel life-phases?
Will the shattered peace come back to gather?
I see peace hustle and bustle in various places,
Will these two little souls really matter?
My heart beats; the bosom of Mercy embraces,
Providence has come to be their life’s author.
Peace is the optimal dream of all races,
It’s a Symphony worth gold heaps and Dollars.
Clouds of blessings eventually shower their graces.
Peace has come & sprung its water...why bother?!
🌹🌹🌹
Enaam M. M.
Saudi Arabia 🇸🇦
Enaam M. M.
Saudi Arabia
My Voice stands for
The black bird is weightless, barbed beak
and bloody feathers rise and fall
over the porous earth
clouds evaporate
the wall is a torn curtain
a river runs down the middle of my heart
from west to east
darkness into light
Joe Boyle
Kent, OH
My Voice Is
My voice is older
it has deepened now
waits
even understands
that voices blend
harmonize
volumize
against just about any barrier
no need to scream.
Nancy F.
Cleveland
My Voice Is
My voice is a weeping widow
My voice is the tears of silence
My voice stands for those
who are not heard, who have not lived.
My voice begs for lives that were lost,
for the souls of the forgotten.
Anonymous
Breaking Down Barriers Conference
My Voice Is
My voice is a seed, buried
deep in tainted earth.
My seed blooms, to speak
for every sprout crushed.
My flower dies, my roots
Thrive.
I want my voice to be our voice
Our voice is growing, growing
growing.
Anna Kurnat
Park Forest, IL
My Voice Is
Break down walls
Raise up people
and the bonds
between them.
Neil Cooper
Akron, Ohio
My Voice stands for
the future
Jen
Kent, OH
I Want
Get out the streets kid.
Your Momma worried sick.
Haser the Kid, 26
Canton, Ohio
I Want
I want your chained soul to breach these finite boundaries.
I want you to see me without eyes,
hear me without ears,
and feel me without touch.
I want you.
Chris T., 36
Akron, Ohio
Give & Take
Take away the ice
and give the flowing river sunlight
Mark B., 31
Pinckney, Michigan
My Voice stands for
My voice stands for
The feel of freedom
Tub wheels in the wind
Grego S., 43
Akron, Ohio
My Voice Is
My voice is music to my mother's ears.
So I don't want to be taken away young,
Leaving her in tears.
Shootings happen nonstop every year.
I want to see growth
From all my peers.
Cody S., 22
Akron, Ohio
I Want
I hope I find a love
that's like a dove
that comes from above!
Phillip S., 32
Akron, Ohio
My Voice Is
My voice is Love.
My voice is Berry, the man of her dreams.
My voice is slow to anger.
I want people to want to be kind.
Taking back my sobriety, rcovering at IBH
My voice is being 100% with myself.
Frank "Funky Fresh", 39
Akron, Ohio
I Want
I want to knit together the yarn of hatred with the yarn of forgiveness and cloak the earth in new cloth. I want my prayers to sing in the ears of strangers like rain on a tin roof. I want what’s tender and gentle to know my sister’s name.
Molly McDevitt
Cleveland, OH
Give & Take
Give us a quiet hush, where peace can resound
Karen Drew
Washington, NH
My Voice
My voice tells the story of jasmine
To silence war and bury guns.
It speaks Jasmine
To the many mothers, left behind,
To fathers, injured...and gone,
To childhood on crutches
And to the bleeding dove:
"Once again in time,
There will return peace,
And in peace you will indulge"
Dima
Saudi Arabia
My Voice
My voice doesn't notice
Carmi Soifer
Suquamish
My Voice Is
My voice is a mother calling into darkness
A name falling softly as the rain
For all the children lost
But not forgotten
We will cry out
Forever and
Again
Anne Casey
Australia
Repetition
My body is sacred
My body is a gift
My body
The bodies of my ancestors
The bodies futures ones
Name freedom
Ann Marie Davis
Oakland California
My Voice Is
My voice is a car flying by with joy
My voice stands for the endless fun for spinning wheels
My voice screams in happiness, my voice shouts for competition
I want the sick to forget the sickness
I want the sad to forget the sadness
Take back our limits and give the freedom
My voice is loud,loud,loud
Yazin Mulla
Saudi Arabia
My Voice Is
sweet marrow rememberings, —
Paul Lomax
Falling Waters
My Voice stands for
My voice stands for those who don't have a voice
K. S. King
Lawrenceville, GA
My Voice Is
My voice is an unrelentingly graceful display of perseverance.
Rebecca Manning
East Cleveland, OH
My voice is a vigil
Birdsong and bark
Echo from dried riverbeds and parched canyons
My voice will come up for air as the waters surge
Arpeggio rising from tear gas and bloodied sand
My voice will cross borders
Armada in three-part peace
Waving all those children in bright vests to shore
Hollis Kurman
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
My Voice
My voice peace ....
Peace everywhere ,
As peace only showers ,
Love here and there .
Peace ties a knot ....
A knot of infinity ,
in which the mass ,
lives in sanctity .
Peace when flies ,
No one die ,
Peace brings dare ,
My voice in layer .
Praveen Gola
Rohini, Delhi , India
My Voice
My voice peace
Praveen Gola
Rohini, Delhi, India
My Voice Is
my voice has been considered as chaff
on the wind, disregarded as useless
venetia sjogren
Panama and the USA
My Voice
My voice whispers "peace" as you brush by my shoulder in the supermarket
My voice shivers at the coldness of your stare
My voice beckons others to stand,
hand in hand, to help, hold, and heal
one another with a chorus of hope:
I am human
You are human
We are human
C. Spencer
Kent, Ohio
Give & Take
Take the fallen and give us a reason to think we didn't lose them for nothing
Brianna Walker
Cleveland, Ohio
Give & Take
My voice has never been more silenced
than it has been staring in the face
of what we once called "Freedom"
Brianna Walker
Cleveland, Ohio
Give & Take
Take away my sadness, and give back my love.
jd
Las Cruces, NM
I Want
I want winter to end
Carrie
Kent State
My Voice
My voice is as loud as wind blowing over the mountains.
Peter
Kent
Give & Take
Take back my voice—give me a lifetime of better ears.
Alex
Kent, Ohio
My Voice
My voice glistens like the sunrise over the Pacific Ocean, as precious as morning dew.
Izzy
Cleveland, OH
I Want
I want peace for a peaceful world.
Peter
Kent
I Want
I want every person to feel like a child cared for, delighted in, listened to
Lauren
Kent
I Want
My voice stands for God.
Peter
Kent
I Want
My voice is as colorful as a Fall leaf
Peter
Kent
My Voice Is
My voice is a ball rolling down a hill, picking up momentum as it goes.
Grace
Kent
My voice stands for equality.
Brianna
Ohio
My Voice stands for
My Voice Stands for those who stand for their rights
My Voice stands for those without for those who believe that cant be heard
My Voice Stands for those who believe that theirs has been silenced that theirs have been stolen and pawned off
I Speak for those who believe that they are being trampled upon that they cant think or speak with being Pushed down by Big Brother or those in Power
I Speak for those who Believe in Change for a better Future
Carl Houghton
Mantua, Ohio, United States of America
My Voice stands for
My voice stands for peace and acceptance.
Rachel Quiggle
Mantua, Ohio
My Voice stands for
My voice stands for all of those affected by the thoughtless government.
My voice stands for all of those hurt by the hateful words of others.
My voice stands for all of those being ripped from their crying parents arms.
My voice stands for all that can no longer speak for themselves.
My voice stands for everybody.
Krista Smith
Mantua, Ohio
Give & Take
To give or to take. To make or to break. Too much is taken and not enough is given. Take ray from the sun and give it to the dark.
Autumn Sindelar
Mantua, Ohio
My voice is the cool fall breeze blowing through the beautiful fall trees
Beth
I Want
I want those who are unheard, to be listened to.
kaley
Ohio
My Voice stands for
My voice stands for equal rights. Why must there be a rift between us all? We are all human.
Jillian
Ravenna, OH
My Voice Is
My voice is Care,
Care for others who don't care for themselves,
Care for those who feel they don't deserve it,
Care for those who aren't cared for.
Jasmyn Jessel
Hiram, Ohio, USA
My Voice stands for
My voice stands for every person who is suffering from depression, the people who no longer feel loved in today's society. The people who no longer want a beautiful tomorrow but a dead and silent night, for all of eternity.
Allyssa Rieger
Ravenna, Ohio
My Voice stands for
My voice stands for any woman that feels like they are losing their rights
Lydia
Ohio
My Voice stands for
My voice stands for people willing to make a change
Bethany
Mantua, Ohio
My Voice stands for
My voice stands for light, peace, and tranquility.
Payton McMahon
Mantua, Ohio
I Want
I want a world that brings colors to the darkness surrounding us.
Ally Sabol
Mantua, Ohio
I Want
I want the silence to end , it needs to end. Children dropping dead like flies by their own hands its time for the silence to end.
Cierra
Ohio
I Want
I want the world to stop hurting, for mother Earth to live, for our world to keep turning and stop burning.
Wyatt Hunter
Ravenna, ohio
My Voice stands for
My voice stands for peace. For an end to the divide. For people to come together and put their differences aside.
Lilly
Hiram, Ohio, USA
My Voice
My voice stands for those who don't get to have their voices heard.
Isaac Guyette
Ohio
My Voice stands for
My voice stands for the children dying for no reason at all.
kayley
ohio
My voice is mine, yours is yours
but together makes one powerful one
when we all are one, we are invincible
Josh Ondash
Mantua, Ohio, USA
My voice is a strong wind the in the night sky
Travis Waugh
Mantua Ohio
My Voice
My voice can be heard echoing through the crisp night air
Jessica
Ohio
My Voice
My voice shouts through other's masks.
Sydney
Hiram
I want peace and happiness. I want to end other's pain and suffering.
skylar g
Ravenna
My Voice Is
My voice is the sound you hear before the world ends.
Sierra
Lahaina, HI
My Voice
My voice is powerful
Teagan
Mantua, OH
I want to eliminate the fear of standing alone
Greg Stuber
Mantua
My voice can be as loud as the thunder,
autumn hammons
ohio
I Want
I want to have a world with no war
John
Mantua,Ohio
I want Unity for the United states
Brett
Mantua Ohio
My Voice stands for
My voice stands for peace
RJ Loomer
Mantua, Ohio
I want the world to be a less hateful place
chloe
Mantua Ohio
My voice stands for freedom
Wyatt
Mantua
I give you my life and you take others happiness.
Devin Oborn
Mantua, Ohio
My voice stands for those who don't have one
Kayla Starcher
Mantua, OH
My voice stands for the truth
Jacob haney
streetsboro
My voice is a never ending irk in John's ear
tAylOr gRuBb
Mantua
my voice is a chicken in the morning, always annoying my friends
nicholas gullett
mantua
I Want
I want magic
in a dark time
speaking aloud
an incantation to bring wholeness again
frightening some
who focus on themselves
afraid to allow
magic into their lives
real magic that happens between people
has nothing to do with logic or physics
but lies in common laughter and harmony
in sunny warmth on a winter day
in the music of silence
Larry Kerschner
Centralia, Washington
My Voice
My voice. Your voice. Her voice. His voice.
Our voice.
I want you to hear it
I need you to feel it.
Take back ownership.
Take back responsibility--
Give me our voice back.
Liz Jertic-Somlai
Sombor, Serbia
My Voice
My voice is all of the fists in the air at a punk show, screaming the words of anguish for those who cannot
Loving strangers in a way that looks painful, but is more encompassing than any love letter comes close to being
My voice is all of the fists in the air, united for justice, united for peace, united for you.
Holly Scala
Reno, Nevada
My Voice
My voice weaves the unspoken woes of the fallen, the faceless masses, our battered abandoned.
Jennifer
Stuart, Florida United States
my voice is earthquake a trembling bird hanging on thread over an expanse of quacking dead ocean.
Ella
kent, oh
Repetition
Your voice matters, matters, matters
katie fenster
pg county md
Take these bullets coursing through the air, frightening children and mothers every where - give us instead a show of peace, a breath of understanding, a time to heal - the possibility of harmony as we recognize ourselves in others - all part of a humankind family.
Take the disagreement, the anger, the resentment - give us the vision to see the whole world and each fellow human with compassion and wonder -
Say these words with me "peace is better, peace is better, always peace is better."
evelynjane
Oklahoma
My Voice stands for
My voice stands for the Earth
Andy
Urbana, Il
Give & Take
I want to take away suffering and give a sense of meaning and relationship.
Jeremy
Greensboro, NC
Give & Take
My voice stands for ending structural violence and building peace
Jeremy
Greensboro, NC
My Voice stands for
My voice stands for the voiceless
virginia
minneapolis
My Voice Is
my voice is loud, and quc viet
elhal
kehu
I Want
I want to overwhelm the violent with a storm of dandelions!
tom pynn
kennesaw, georgia
Give & Take
Take back bullets and give us beauty
Caitie Young
Kent, Ohio
My Voice Is
My voice is as strong and as gentle as the ocean.
Sierra
Quaker Hill, Connecticut, USA
My Voice stands for
My voice stands for those who are hushed
Sadie
Holmesville, Ohio
My Voice
My voice chokes. I barely whisper, say something, do something, just stand with me.
marla berggoetz
indianapolis,,indiana
I want more people to know that it happens. I want more people to believe survivors. I want people to know that it is common as dirt and old as the hills. So act on it. Take action. Act as if it matters.
Alice Hasbrouck
Pennsylvania
My Voice stands for
My voice is friendship without borders
Cat
Rutland, Oh
My Voice Is
My voice is birdsong at dawn
Cat
Rutland
My Voice
Peace in my part of the world is not airport noise. It is about the slaughter of human beings, the burning down of entire communities, including hospitals and their patients today in the 21st century. My worry is how the global community ignores my part of the world and the people being slaughtered daily.
Fonkem Achankeng
University of Wisconsin,Oshkosh, WI, USA
My Voice Is
My voice is a silence you can't breathe through
LaShawn Smith-Wright
Detroit, Michigan
Repetition
Today, today, today--if you wish for a tomorrow.
Irwin
Kingston, Ontario
My Voice
My voice stands with the trees, as collaborative, cooperative, and communal.
Monica Kaiser
Akron, Ohio
Give & Take
Take our rage, our hate, our fear; give us peace, love, and comfort
Robert Carlock
Bowling Green, Ohio
My Voice Is
My voice is a thousand storms cultivating defying galaxies
Izzy
Cleveland, OH
My voice is a leaf changing in the autumn winds
Joe k
Colorado springs
I Want
I want love laid on as thick as a triple stuffed oreo.
Sanyi
Beavermarket
My Voice Is
My voice is a howling cry for peace, for justice, for love
Jacob Dudley
Rootstown, Ohio
My Voice Is
My voice is warm like the blue sky at sunset melting into pink
Caitie Young
Kent
My Voice Is
My voice is a kid playing by sea shore
Elton Skendaj
North Manchester, Indiana
My Voice stands for
My voice stands for my broken knees.
AJ Forrester
Tampa, Florida
My Voice Is
My voice is powerful like a Tsunami
Brittany E., 33
Stow, OH
My Voice stands for
My voice stands up for addicts,
who succeeded or failed with tactics.
My voice stands proud and true,
to carry the message, to find the clue.
My voice is here to shine,
to help bring back what's mine.
My voice suffered from the knife,
now it's time to bring back my life.
Shine Fairchild, 26
Akron, OH
My Voice Is
My voice is like the sun shining down.
My voice stands for the mothers that are struggling.
My voice sounds like a child's laugh.
I want addicts to overcome their addiction
and forget the past.
Heather Mudery, 28
Ravenna, OH
My Voice Is
My voice is starving
like a child who goes
hungry in the night
Taylor Hornak, 25
Akron, OH
I Want
I want peace, true love, and respect
to all the world and waters.
Let God and let go!
Let the people love one another RIGHT NOW!
Get your shine on!
The time is now...
Holly Bridges, 38
Peninsula, OH
My Voice Is
My voice is strong like a gun shot.
My voice is stunning like a flying bird.
I want Mother Nature to grow more trees.
I want inner peace.
Hannah Sallora, 26
Tallmadge
My Voice Is
My voice is inspiring to touch and to help people in any way.
Hayley Weaver, 22
Akron, OH
My Voice Is
My voice is strong
it drives down the road
of life fearlessly.
My voice is like a peacock
strutting itself confidently.
Hannah Eckels, 24
Akron, OH
My Voice
My voice brings happiness to other lives
My voices soothes a baby's cry
My voice brings realization to an addict
My voice accepts anyone for any form they're in
My voice shows strength and resilliance
My voice gives a friend a safe place
My voice gives love and peace
My voice is me.
Tara Schwaberow, 29
Akron, OH
I want the world to finally experience
the light of the universe
and the bliss of God's Word
Shattering the darkness of evil
and all of the light sighs
through reckoning all of the world in the powerful bliss
of no more crying or hunger,
erasing ourselves and each other.
Where the sound of war is no more
and lonely humming birds sing
and the Word sleeps silently with no trees
crying, falling, only flowers blooming
and the Word wakes to the angels singing
its glory light on a reborn world, rid of all evils
and only bursting with the power of bliss.
Carmen Estrada
My Voice Is
My voice can end the war
My voice can change the world
Jonah B.
Walls Elementary School
I Want
I want everyone to be kind and for there to finally be a woman president.
Olive
Walls Elementary School
My voice is a feather because it's soft
My voice is candy because it's sweet
Allianna
Walls Elementary School
My Voice Is
My voice is a million cannon balls hitting the ground.
Rylan
Walls Elementary School
My Voice Is
My voice is more french fries.
Sam Love
Walls Elementary School
My Voice Is
My voice is like telling my dad goodbye.
Bailey Dolan
Walls Elementary School
My Voice
My voice ends all wars.
Jaxon
Walls Elementary School
My Voice
My voice is loud like a lion roaring
Brooklin
Walls Elementary School
My Voice Is
My voice is soft like the wind moving in the air then softly landing back on the earth
Haniya
Walls Elementary School
My Voice
My voice protects the turtles.
Alex Huang
Walls Elementary School
My Voice stands for
My voice stands for peace.
Retal Alrehaili
Walls Elementary School
My Voice stands for
My voice stands for homeless person begging for change and peace.
Alice
Walls Elementary
My Voice Is
My voice is as soft as a lily
Cate
Walls Elementary
My Voice stands for
My voice stands for the poeple that have died from bullets
Jullian
Walls Elementary
My Voice stands for
My voice stands for world peace
Senuri
Walls Elementary
My Voice Is
My voice is like rain falling on leaves
Thomas
Walls Elementary
My Voice
My voice can stop all war.
Eli
Walls Elementary
My Voice Is
My voice is soft like an alpaca
Trevin
Walls Elementary
My voice is the sound of wind against a building.
Olivia
Walls Elementary
My Voice Is
My voice sounds like it is trying to end wars.
Drezden
Walls Elementary
My Voice Is
My voice is like a lion's roar.
Lillyan
Walls Elementary
My Voice Is
My voice is a wolf hunting for food.
Kean
Walls Elementary
My Voice Is
My voice is loud like thunder.
Ethan
Kent, Ohio
My Voice Is
My voice is love and peace.
Chloe
Walls Elementary
My Voice Is
My voice is a rainbow and a heart full of love.
Hanan
Kent, Ohio
My Voice Is
I want there to be more peace in the world. I want there to be no world hunger. I want there to be a cure for cancer. I want there to be no pollution or landfills.
Cienna
Kent, Ohio
My Voice Is
Peace is a bear growl to get the bully's attention and then chase him through the halls.
Max
Kent, Ohio
My Voice
I hear darkness because my voice is dark. I want to say what I say.
Veronica
Kent, Ohio
My Voice Is
If I saw someone on the street smoking, I would say that's how my grandpa died, so I would quit.
Rocco
Kent, Ohio
Hey, you! Yes, you! Let your negativity fade and use the can opener to open your uplifting positivity to all that's around. No more shaming or creating labels. Put the same energy of kindness your friends get and sprinkle it all around to others to help make the world a better place.
Sincere Lucas
My Voice Is
My voice is a radiant star nestled in the midst of black storm clouds, roaring disputes of thunder and harsh blows of lightning.
Gianna J.
Highland Heights, OH
My Voice Is
My voice is for people who turned dirt into diamonds. People who barely had a stable home growing up. For people who didn't know if they were going to be alive the next day. My voice is for people going through something. Don't give up, I'm with you.
Bryan Hugh Keith
Cleveland
My Voice Is
My voice is not quiet. My voice is not loud. My voices is heard, heard for what I stand for. My voice is unique.
Angelo Vecchio
Mayfield Heights
I Want
I want everyone's voice to be heard. I want people to feel important. I want people to feel loved. I want people to feel safe. I want people to get along. I want the fighting to end. I want everyone to let go of their differences. I want everyone to love.
Juliana Fimiani
Cleveland
I Want
I want a powerful, meaningful voice to speak for those who don't have the choice. And may that voice be loud and clear to instill peace and eliminate fear. Because maybe then people will see the way the world is isn't how it has to be.
Sarah Carlile
Cleveland
I Want
I want to be the reason why the hungry are full, why the lonely feel loved, why the frightful feel safe. I want to be the shiny star with no name.
Emily Direvicius
Highland Heights, OH
My Voice Is
My voice is loud, I speak loud about my voice. I speak my mind to express my pain, to explain my cries. I have a voice to say right from wrong, to sing a song, to reach out to those in need. I have a voice.
Morgan Williams
Mayfield Heights, OH
Give & Take
Take back the unwarranted touches bestowed upon countless victims, and give them back the name they lost to tears, to disgust and shame; time they lost while wondering: why me?
Madeline Kless
Mayfield, OH
My Voice Is
My voice is resilient like my body defeating addiction.
Kristin D.
AKRON, OH
My Voice stands for
My voice stands for the poor
My voice will stop fighting
My voice will prevent jail forever
My voice is like a baby bird
My voice is deep like a trombone
Aaliyah Baffone
Walls Elementary School
My Voice stands for
My voice stands for the people lost to disease. My voice stands for my grandma's last heartbeat. My voice stands for everyone lost to a bullet. My voice stands for every child that got kidnapped. My voice stands for everyone.
Demitri
Walls Elementary School
My Voice Is
My voice is like a vaccum that picks up litter. My voice is like a trumpet to distract people from fighting. I want people to stop being mad at each other.
Gwenyth
Walls Elementary School
My Voice Is
My voice is as loud as a whale. I wish that everyone on the playground would be kind to each other and then we can have a kind school. If we have a kind school it will spread on and this world will become a kind world. Soon it will turn into a kind universe.
Haidyn Christy
Walls Elementary School
My voice stands for people who are judged, people who need help. My voice stays strong for people who try to change the world no matter what. My voice is like a bell loud and strong. My voice stands for people who can't stand for themselves.
Molly Mae Murphy
Walls Elementary School
My Voice Is
My voice is a drum, beating every syllable of wanting equal money and equal rights for everyone and free healthcare for all of the people in the world who get hurt.
Layla Airhart
Walls Elementary School
My Voice Is
My voice is loud as a cat I want people to not be mad at each other
Emma Woitala
Walls Elementary School
My Voice Is
My voice is like a trombone playing and rainbows in the wind.
Jaden
Walls Elementary School
My Voice Is
My voice is like a cookie making people happy.
Declan
Walls Elementary School
My Voice Is
my voice is like a cupcake, sweet but a little sour, but most important of all is that it is ours to choose, so don't make it with baa's and boo's.
Aisha Ansari
Walls Elementary School
My Voice Is
My voice is loud to save animals from pollution. My voice is speak for all the kids that have died. My voice is amazing I hope we all can save the planet.
Jazmyn
Walls Elementary
My Voice Is
My voice is deep like glass dropping on the floor. My voice is deep like violence.
Aniya Coleman
Walls Elementary School
My Voice Is
My voice is like thunder and stands for no mass shootings. My voice stands for every lost life due to violence. My voice stands for every soldier's last heartbeat in battle.
Avery
Walls Elementary School
My Voice stands for
I want love, kindness, and understanding in our beautiful diverse world.
Arlea Carmack
Goodland, Kansas
Repetition
Like willow branches swaying, swaying,swaying they stood for the righteous right, children, male and female children, students, on the cusp of adulthood, swaying, swaying, swaying, but never-the-less remaining upright.
GC Smith
Aiken, SC
My Voice Is
My voice is the echo in a canyon--one, but many, flowing back to me, and me alone;
My voice is tempered by despair, for the realities of life are harsh and painful.
My voice is quickened by the hope I see,
by the Parkland kids, united by outrage.
My voice sings to a day when there is more than a glimmer, more than a promise;
My voice longs to shout, "we are free of fear, free of guns, free to live!"
Helen Beer
Waxhaw, NC
My voice joins with yours and hers and his and theirs in the sound of ours.
Maryanne Stahl
I Want
I want all people to know that they are not alone (and never will be)
Alex Andy Phuong
Alhambra, CA
I Want
I want to give those who are disenfranchised much more than what they've been given.
Natalie L.
Washington, D.C., USA
My Voice stands for
My voice stands for the children
Who have no agency in this world
And my voice will always represent
Their dreams and fears
Janet Hopkins Davis
Reston, VA
My Voice Is
My voice is a cool ocean breeze in a hot summer
Anonymous
Kent, OH
My Voice stands for
A world where my grandchildren can grow in love and peace
Jennifer Stonebrook
Willowick Ohio USA
My Voice stands for
Love and understanding of all humankind
Susan Shelton
Bangkok Thailand
My Voice Is
My voice is speaking for my silenced neighbors
Alexsandra Nilges
Elyria, OH
My Voice
My voice aches
Sandra Perrotta
Canfield
I Want
I want us to communicate, a form of art we've lost behind keyboards and miniature screens.
I want us to talk, which we've neglected despite conversation being easier than ever before.
Jimmy Miller
Stow, Ohio
My Voice
My voice cries out for peace from frightful roars
Daniel Cuthbert
Lansing, IL
My Voice Is
my voice is
the celestial twin
of silence
Deborah Keith
Kent, Ohio
My Voice Is
My voice is
a synchronized cacophony
of many helping hands: diaphanous winged &
velvet plush
a plainsong from the heart: lay down your arms.
henry 7. reneau, jr.
Lindsay, CA
I want the holiest of spirits to protect our beautiful planet.
Cathy
Aurora, Ohio, USA
My Voice Is
As a May 4th Survivor my voice has been silent too long.
Jeanne M. Tucker
Mineral Ridge, Ohio
My Voice Is
My voice is full. My voice is beautiful. My voice moves. My voice is good.
Scott Hudson, age 52
Akron, OH
My Voice Is
My voice is my own, not controlled. My voice matters to my friends, family, and me. My voice makes memories, don't break it please.
Anonymous, age 15
Austintown, OH
My Voice Is
My voice fights as loving reason. My voice is joy as an act of resistance. Take vehemence and give a change. I want to find this world's balance. My voice fights lest our world sets alright.
Miles Purdy, age 22
Akron, OH
My Voice Is
If I told you we could heal, would you believe? If I told you we could charge, would you believe me? If I told you we are cognitive, would you believe me? If I told you, would you believe me?
Leanor Crawford, age 12
Kent, OH
My Voice Is
My voice is the Chinese wallow tree's rustle in the wind. My voice is in the ways the leaves fall and come back every spring. My voice is the cycle of the world rotating. I want the cycles to continue - the leaves to die and grow. My voice is the Chinese wallow trees growing, growing, growing.
Esther Luo, age 18
Baton Rouge, LA
My Voice Is
Take away the world's hunger and give fulfillment instead. Take away the violence and give peace instead. I want acceptance instead of rejection.
Kyle Wharton, age 18
Tampa, FL
My Voice Is
My voice is flowers blooming in spring. My voice is the truth the world should hear. My voice stands for those for those who think their alone. My voice craves, my voice jumps. I want your girls to feel proud not let down. I want to make a real difference. I want to soak in the sun. Take back harsh words and give love.
Mindy Tran, age 18
Chicago
My Voice Is
When the world is at peace, I am at peace. My voice is at war, I am also at war. This world is my world it represents me. When the world is good, I am good.
Oliver M., age 12
Woodsworth
My Voice Is
My voice is pink, My voice is a piano. My voice stands for kindness. I want to be a good friend.
Mallory, age 6
Kent, OH
My Voice stands for
My voice stands for the children who want a chance for family. A chance to be who they are.
Moira Ledinsky, age 24
Twinsburg, OH
My Voice Is
My voice is strong and lasting. My voice stands for sanity in a world of insanity. My voice tries to penetrate noise. I want people to listen more and talk less. We have 2 ears and 1 mouth. My voice is like a big tree with deep roots.
Garret, age 52
Kent (the best city), OH
My Voice Is
My voice is blue like the sky I like it when it is sunny it is pretty <3
Miranda Cranendonk, age 9
Akron, OH
My Voice Is
My voice is a sunburn aching red with restlessness to heal the void - a lacuna turned cavern -- a cool, luminous azure pool calling our voices to silence, to rest. And then rise -- Rise --Rise
Heather Bryson, age 45
Akron, OH
My voice is singing through gargles but the song still comes out. My voice is rough, my voice is ringing, my voice is tired.
Terence Cranendonk, age 56
New York, NY
My Voice Is
My voice is a cicada, crawling up from underground - to shed its hard shell to dry its wings, to fly and to sing.
John Bryson, age 49
Akron, OH
I Want
I want to be empty and listen to the voice of eternity.
Debona
Italy
I Want
Take my flash and burn it with your love.
Debona
Italy
My Voice
My voice is a plant growing in the sun.
Anonymous
Kent, Ohio
My Voice
My voice is a bright pallet of colors.
Anonymous
Kent, Ohio
My Voice
My voice is a singing soul.
Anonymous
Kent, Ohio
My Voice Is
My voice is the wind of peace around the world.
Afrah
Saudi, Arabi
I Want
I want you to think abut your university age daughter / son walking across KSU campus on May 4th, 1970 and being struck by a bullet... Do something today to promote peace, love, and understanding.
Rebecca
Kent, Ohio
My Voice
My voice can work into people's hearts.
Jennifer S.
Cincinnati
My Voice
I want to live in peace. I want to change lives. To live for the present and the future.
Jennifer S.
Cincinnati
My Voice
My voice can be heard. My voice can be ignored. My voice can be different. My voice can change the way of life.
Jennifer S.
Cincinnati
Give & Take
I give people my heart when they are sad.
Audrey
Kent, Ohio
Give & Take
My voice is peaceful and warm.
Audrey
Kent, Ohio
Give & Take
I want people to get along
Audrey
Kent, Ohio
I Want
I want peace on earth. I want people to get along. I want people to have food.
Molly Wiler
Kent, Ohio
I Want
I want a fairy, a pumpkin, sunglasses, a hat. I want some roses, a toy lego helicopter. I want a stuffed pillow, a phone. I want not a strap dress. I want my own bedroom!
Evie Myers
Willie
I Want
I want a studio and fan art
Helen
Akron
My Voice stands for
My voice stands for finishing field hockey games. I believe women's sports matter too. It's not about football, baseball, and men's basketball. Everyone matters.
Carleigh Wiler
Kent, Ohio
I Want
My voice is muffled joy a soft pillow its palms pressing on fabric
Chelle
Boise
My Voice Is
My voice is a pebble, like most peoples are, unnoticed, small. But if thrown in someone’s face, a pebbles can be as noticeable as the mothman statue’s booty
Josh
Cuyahoga Falls
I Want
My voice is muffled joy, a soft pillow, its palms pressing on fabric
Chelle
Boise
My Voice Is
My voice is caught in a mind prison, its fists pounding on steel
Chelle
Boise
I Want
I want a future
Madeline Steward
Columbus, Ohio
I Want
Take back your convenience and give us longevity
Madeline Steward
Columbus, Ohio
I Want
My voice is the protest of a young girl demanding change
Madeline Steward
Columbus, Ohio
I Want
My voice is the roar of the wave crashing on a trash-littered beach.
Madeline Steward
Columbus, Ohio
My Voice Is
My voice is an Eagle Soaring. My voice stands for helping. My voice is helping my community. I want an end to my communities' hunger. Give back service above ones self. And support all community needs.
My voice is Rotary
Steve Bugenske 58
Boston Hts, OH
My Voice Is
My voice is strong. My voice stands for love. My voice is going. I want family happiness
take back ego's and give us kindness. My voice is love, love, love.
Debbie %7
Boston Hts, OH
My Voice Is
My voice is exponentially more powerful joined with the voices of others
Maya Niesz Kutsch 18
Kent, Oh
My Voice
My voice wants to make a change, but often never leaves my head.
My voice could make a change, if the rest of me stood behind it.
Chloe Niesz Kutsch 16
Kent, Oh
I Want
I want to give E for Evelyn
Evelyn 3
Kent, Oh
I want peace get people together and discard haters forever
Haifaa Faqeih
I Want
I want to give somebody a car because I like to drive cars.
Charles
Kent, Oh
My Voice Is
My voice is heard more than others due to the paleness of my skin. My voice is a giant, a loud speaker, yet there are others not so fortunate. I want the day to come where I don't have to worry that the life of my loved one will be taken by a bullet at the hand of someone with my complexion. I want the day to come where the voices and lives are heard of people other than those that look like me.
Kaeley
Seattle, WA
My Voice Is
My voice is a shaky voice, yet strong. The environment needs me to give voice. I want to leave the world better than when I came. Stand with me to protect the Earth. My voice is shaky but strong. I want the Earth to live.
Linda, 76
Kent
My Voice Is
My voice is seen
through my hands.
Saffron Shahriari, 6
Stow, OH
My Voice Is
My voice is heard
through movies.
Cyrus Shahriari, 16
Stow, OH
My Voice Is
My voice is a good
reading voice. It
sounds like rain
falling to the ground.
Harrison, 7
Kent
My Voice Is
My voice is loud and strong. Sometimes I can be a little too loud, I want you to know that when I'm loud I'm not always being mean
Holden, 11
Kent
I Want
I want happiness and sunshine everyday. Finding it slowly.
Mary, 22
Cleveland
My Voice stands for
My voice stands for
love and community.
My voice stands for
the children who can't be
heard. I want everyone
I meet to feel loved, safe,
and comforted. I want people
to know that they matter.
My voice is full of color, sunlight,
and love.
Jaylin VanHorn, 22
Cleveland
I Want
I want empathyto be a trait that is automatic not learned.
I want it to be like breathing or blinking or a heartbeat.
I want empathy to be....
Gregg Pahls, 45
Kent
My Voice
My voice can hush a crowd.
My voice can calm the seas of rumbling footsteps.
My voice shouldn't be unaccounted for.
My voice tells those with empty words to hush
and those with purpose to sing.
Kyra Pahls, 17
Kent
My Voice Is
My voice is the rain on the roof.
My voice is the silence of snowfall.
My voice stands for the new world.
My voice shouts. My voice falters.
I want actual change driven by
the new generation.
I want to take bigotry and give
understanding.
My voice is rolling clouds, rolling clouds,
rolling clouds.
Miranda Johnson, 21
Novi, MI
My Voice Is
My voice is a mother.
My voice is a friend.
The world is in need of peace until the very end.
My voice is the truth.
The children of the world deserve a peaceful sleep.
Joy Pahls
Kent
My voice is controversial, angelic, yet powerful. Deep thoughts of objection at use, I plan a war in which I use no harm or violent escapes. Instead, I take the head on route as I speak words filled with depth, giving way behind my sadistic background.
Mahrrean Greer, 16
Cleveland
My Voice
My voice is meant
to be heard
and my voice is
strong and powerful
because I am
important.
Josephine, 9
Kent, Oh
My voice stands for
the people that are
broken and need a
helping hand.
Olivia Princehorn, 21
Canton, Oh
My Voice Is
My voice is not the sky. My voice has no limit. The sky is not the limit if space exists. My voice stands for freedom. My voice is loud, proud, and mine
Nacoya Rivers, 16
Cleveland
My Voice stands for
My voice stands for equality --
for women and men;
for all creatures; who are our brothers
and sisters;
for the waters and wind and soil
that are our life.
Kathleen Jackson, 46
Brunswick
Give & Take
My family suffers a lot of
pain. My voice hungers from
food. I suffer from pain the most.
I feel like a bullet.
Ray, 11
Akron
My Voice Is
12345, my voice is alive, one step in front of the other, to a place together. Three more lines for a completed poem.
Five but it's another day on the one earth we have. Still alive
Anonymous, 30
Dayton
My Voice stands for
My voice stands for
those whose struggles
are unspoken.
Katlyn, 19
Akron
I Want
I always want to
be an actor because
I can voice act
because I love movies
so, so, so much.
Lee, 10
Akron
My Voice Is
My voice is
awesome and
pizza and
tacos.
Ian Mikula, 8
Kent
My Voice Is
My voice is peace, love.
My voice is pizza and
tacos and donuts and
call.
Ike, 9
Kent
My Voice stands for
My voice stands for those unable to speak.
What I want is to help the voiceless to be heard.
Lynne Shayko, 37
Parma
My Voice Is
My voice is shaking
and strong. It strains
and hurts. My voice
is love and flows.
My voice is all of
me.
Colleen Thoele, 44
Cuyahoga Falls
My Voice stands for
I stand for the vulnerable, those who can't speak, those who never have and those who never could. I stand for them because their voice gives me strength.
Nic Shayko, 34
Parma
My Voice Is
My voice is
LOUD. My voice
eats ice cream.
My voice is crazy.
My voice loves.
My voice is
heart.
Lola Thoele, 8
Cuyahoga Falls
My Voice Is
My voice is angry
sometimes. My voice is
nurturing sometimes. My
voice is always loving.
Marim
Kent
My Voice stands for
My voice stands for all the children in the world, scared to go to school everyday. My voice is the color purple, calm and powerful. My voice stands for those who can't. My voice is amazing.
Anonymous, 13
Kent
My Voice stands for
My voice stands for
all the people who
don't have a voice. And
to show everyone does.
Kayla
Kent
My Voice
My voice was beaten and
broken but now is
proud and confident My voice has as always been
my voice,
loud but has
more meaning now
than ever before.
Listen if you're willing.
Jeannette Hebing
Bath, Oh
I Want
Peace is important for society to continue. Peace is all encompassing
John Macchetto
Pittsburgh
My Voice Is
My voice is
peace for everyone, for everyone to
be kind
to help lead the blind, let's make and
set a sign
for generations behind
Ashley Marchetti
Pittsburgh
My Voice Is
My voice is the voice I want to be heard each and every day, encouraging positive and thankful thoughts
Diane Marchett
Pittsburgh
My Voice Is
My voice is a sign, a movement,
peace. My voice is a sound, a feeling,
terror. One is needed,
one needs beated
down
Kelci Marchetti
Pittsburgh
My Voice stands for
My voice stands for
change... embrace change
with open mind and
open heart. Growing
is living.
Kim Stone
Ravenna, Oh
My Voice
Speak your mind
remember to be kind
different opinions matter
fear and hate should
scatter
Diane Meter
Cleveland
I Want
My voice is so sad. It should have
never happened,
hopefully we all
learned something
Carlton Williams
Seven Hills
My Voice Is
Though my voice may be quiet, I stand strong on my feet, I refuse to start a riot but my problems are not obsolete just because I love all genders doesn't mean I'm any different. The fact that I'm lgbtq+ won't be my ender just being myself is sufficient
Kenzie Compara, 13
Hudson,Ohio
Give & Take
Complications are intricacies
to the loving eye.
Sylvia
Kent
My Voice stands for
My voice stands for
women, so everyone
else knows we are
stronger than we
look. More powerful
than the strength
they think we don't
have.
Sha Baker
Indiana
My Voice Is
My voice is like the
light the way it flows. My
voice is like the law the way
the history and truth flows
out. My voice is soothing
like rain drops or a waterfall.
My voice is my voice
and it will be heard.
William Dixon III
Cleveland
I stand for children being helped, feed the children and also help imagine the homeless. My voices stands for how you would feel if you had nowhere to go, your heart would be broken
Anonymous
My Voice
I use my voice to sing.
I use my voice to talk.
I love you.
I love dogs.
Harper Fisette
Kent, Ohio
My Voice Is
My voice talks.
I use my voice to
tell silly things.
I use my voice to
ask questions. I use
my voice to spread
happiness.
Emmett Metz
Kent, Ohio
My life has two sides. The bright,
sunny side: It's where the
art comes from, it's where
my voice comes from, and
it's my center of peace.
The other side is dark and
blazing: it's full of negatives,
anger, and a voice full of
hatred. You might think
that I hate one
side and favor the other
but I need both. They
balance me and make
my voice bold yet kind.
My balance is in my
center and that's how I'll
stay.
Amelia
I Want
We want to
keep the earth
green
so let's keep
it very clean
Clara
Kent
I Want
My voice stands for peace, people's love. My voice stands for people's understanding, people's generosity. Where did it all go?
Renata
Stow
I Want
I never thought the world would remain this broken, yet standing
Divorced - but together.
We may look different, speak different languages-yet aren’t we all breathing the same air?
Just trying to stay alive?
Kaliska Williams
Columbus, OH
My Voice stands for
My voice stands for justice
My voice stands for change
Kylie Casenhiser
Green, Ohio
My Voice stands for
My voice stands for
acceptance and love
for everyone
Catie
Green, Ohio
My Voice stands for
My voice stands for love
hope
and a better future for
everyone
AJ
Akron
I Want
I want all world
leaders to listen to the
voice of children; to
endorse the UN proposal
that all children have
the right to clean air
to breathe.
Terri Cardy
Kent
I Want
I want love for everyone. I want freedom to be in everyone's hearts. I want my light to shine,
to guide the lost to new found love. I want everyone to experience true happiness
Latricia, 19
Cleveland
I want to be brave enough to finish this poem. I want my voice to be able to express the love that I am scared to feel.
A. Nichols
Kent
I Want
I want smiles and laughing. I want dancing in the rain. I want clear sunny skies. I want clear sunny skies. I want good morning and good night. I want good connections. I want everyone to love unconditionally.
Allison Goulbski, 15
Tallmadge
I Want
I want people to understand that it is okay to have different opinions and that just because someone has a different opinion doesn't mean we don't respect them
Macey Wood, 16
Ravenna
My Voice stands for
My voice stands for student not quite adults, not quite children, stuck voiceless in the in between
Madison Wood
Ravenna oh
Give & Take
Joy comes in the form of a smile from a stranger.
It's the smallest, most powerful gift
Bridget Walkerfull, 45
Ravenna
My Voice Is
My voice is filled with empathy, love and caring. My voice fills the ears of the young with hope for the future
Jeremy Tawney, 39
Cuyahoga Falls
I Want
I want civility, respect, and human decency back in our country. I want a new generation of leaders
Sheena Zadai, 37
Cuyahoga Falls
My Voice stands for
My voice stands for equality, that is what I stand for. I want world hunger to go away and for everyone to respect each other everyday and no matter where you go
Zachariah Wojnicz, 21
Kent
My Voice Is
My voice stands for world peace across all nations. I want kindness to be a common trait among all people. I want respect towards everyone. I want that nobody would be poor, hungry, or without love. My voice stands up for those who do not have one
Rachel Beatty, 20
Hinckley, Oh
My Voice Is
My voice is warmed by the love from the sun
Michelle, 51
Kent
My Voice Is
I am calm.
Blue is a color, COLD
Lay down,
Sound of the trees
Daniel, 7
Tallmadge
My Voice Is
My voice says quiet down, I am sad.
Yellow is a color I think of.
Maybe I can watch a movie.
Wesley Schmitt, 5
Tallmadge
My Voice Is
My voice is the sound of wind in the trees.
The thunder of waves high on rough seas
Raven, 25
Kent
My Voice Is
Much like the Lorax, I speak for the trees
If they're not helped, the world will be brought to its knees
So if you care like I do, help the planet, please
Helena, 26
Kent
My Voice Is
My voice roils, angry as a raging forest fire.
Kim, 24
Zanesville
My Voice Is
My voice is singing. My voice is reading. My voice is talking.
Leah, 6
Ravenna
My Voice Is
My voice is the calm of the night. I would love to see no racism. To have world peace would be awesome.
Darrick Jordan
Cleveland
My Voice Is
My voice is a strong stone wall. My voice says no more blatant injustice but my voice roars in silence. I want to see people communicating peacefully in harmony with their authentic selves, teaching the next generation, endless, unconditional love. My voice is a strong stone wall.
Valerie Sanner
Kent
I Want
I want back my freedom as the bird once flew soaring high in the blue skies. I want peace and tranquility that we once had. I miss the old times where there was no fear of color, or skin, or preference, or faith. I long to feel the rain splashed on my face and embrace what comes. I want the truth to be heard as fierce as the crack of thunder, resonating loudly. I want people to wake up, be safe in who they are, where they are. This is what I want.
Lorianne Dixon
Kent, Oh
Repetition
I stand for the peace, the time it comes.
I stand for the crime fighting, giving their life for me.
Hannah Miller
Cleveland, Ohio
Give & Take
When the battle is done and the war is won,
who will decide when the peace has begun and who will turn away from the sun?
Carolina Tellado
Mayfield, Ohio
Give & Take
Take away my empathy. How I feel so much. For those who feel nothing for me.
Take away my knowledge
I never realized the bliss of ignorance
until I no longer had it.
Take away my hands
for I will forever use them to fight back.
Maggie Hall
Mayfield Village, Ohio
I Want
I want a president who promotes peace, not the building of a wall.
Argie Ball
Mayfield Heights, Ohio
My Voice stands for
My voice stands for all of the women who are too scared to share their story.
Genny Kootsounadis
Mayfield Heights, Ohio
My Voice stands for
My voice stands for love and peace.
My voice stands for joy.
This voice of mine stands for the courage of others.
My voice stands for you.
My voice stands for love.
Tina Longino
Mayfield Heights, Ohio
I Want
I want to go to school not scared I will never see my mother and father again.
Olivia Nicolli
Cleveland, Ohio
I Want
I want the shootings to end.
The bullets to drop.
The children to run.
Be free, enjoy what they have.
Kam Smith
Mayfield Heights, Ohio
I Want
I want you to Be Yourself
Emma Barker
Cleveland, Ohio
Repetition
I use my voice to stand for those who can no longer
for those who were robbed of their rights
their rights to speak
their rights to believe
their rights to stand for themselves.
Maddie Foresta
Mayfield Heights, Ohio
My Voice Is
My voice is just like yours
and his, and hers, and theirs
IF and only IF
we synchronize them as one
to broadcast the noise we need to hear.
Sarah Carlile
Cleveland, Ohio
My Voice stands for
My voice stands for the women who endure eight hours of incessant, immature slurs because of their tight, black skirts and low-cut blouses, only to return home at the end of the day with twenty percent less than their worth.
Gianna Sarnrak
Highland Heights, Ohio
My Voice
My voice blooms flowers in the garden of wisdom,
stems growing with strength and power,
leaves encompassing my rigid opinion,
petals blooming with my lovely respect for the perception.
Emily Direviaus
Highland Heights, Ohio
My Voice stands for
My voice stands for those who are unable to be bonded by law because a wedding between two men is "unethical."
Jon Caryl
Mayfield Heights, Ohio
My Voice
My voice echos the whispers in my head, still bending to meet the needs of others.
My voice longs for a microphone, to announce what I don't have the power to say louder than a whisper.
Laura Laws
Mayfield Heights, Ohio
My Voice Is
My voice is who I am as a person.
I stand tall for what I say or believe.
I am who I am, to become me.
My voice, my soul, power and endowment is who I am.
And I am proud.
Morgan Williams
Mayfield Heights, Ohio
Give & Take
Take the greedy hand from my mouth so I can speak my truth.
Julia Montani
Mayfield Heights, Ohio
I Want
I want little girls to realize they will grow into their science sets.
Madeline Kless
Cleveland, Ohio
I Want
I want change.
I want to be able to enter a classroom without fear ringing in the back of my mind.
Do we have to live in constant fear that we will go home and see our family?
I want change.
Teneya Caronchi
Mayfield Heights, Ohio
My Voice stands for
My voice stands for the boy across the street, trembling in fear of if the simple goodbye while getting out of his car this morning to his father would be the last.
Molly Appell
Mayfield Heights, Ohio
My Voice
My voice echos the voice of so many others, shouting, "Let there be peace!"
Owen Arbaugh
Cleveland, Ohio
My Voice stands for
MY voice stands for the students in the back of the classroom, the students who struggle with grades when really they're meant to excel in something much more.
Schools pick the students with the better test scores but not the student with the best art skills or an imagination so creative they could write a book.
Test scores should not be what makes a person.
Their talent speaks for itself.
Ilona
Mayfield Heights, Ohio
I Want
I want to make a stand and lead others to a better way of thinking; everyone has potential.
Sincere Lucas
Cleveland, Ohio
I Want
My voice is a drive of encouragement.
My voice is a change to our society.
My voice gathers all color without labels including blue.
My voice is going to grow and spread change around the world.
Sincere Lucas
Cleveland, Ohio
I Want
I want students to stop thinking a letter determines their self-worth.
I want women and teens to stop thinking that a number determines their beauty.
I want people to stop seeing me as a stereotype.
I want my sister to stop believing she is only pretty with straight hair.
I want my brother to believe he is safe walking alone at night.
Comey McCollum
Cleveland, Ohio
My Voice stands for
My voice stands for a windmill in a hurricane
Raymond
Bath
My Voice
I’m finding my voice. I am using my voice. I'm freeing my voice. I'm expressing myself. My voice is becoming strong.
Fred Pierre
Kent OHIO Portage
My Voice
My voice does not waver; its thirst will not be quenched. Its threaded fibers connect all like a fifth-grade friendship bracelet big enough to wrap around the width of the world.
Elena Brem
California
My Voice
Give us back the ones we have been selfish enough to take away.
Elena Brem
California
Repetition
What I want to see on campus: daffodils, daffodils, daffodils.
Patricia L. Magee
Richfield, OH, USA
My Voice stands for
My voice stands for elusive peace, where are you?
In my thoughts, you are there,
Crying to escape the confines of my brain,
Seeking release in the turmoil that is the world.
My every word, every action must speak peace.
Or I am but a noise maker, as others
Who came before me, or will come after.
Seeking elusive peace.
Vanessa Courie
Tallmadge, OH USA
My Voice
My voice ever-blooms, showing the flowering of conflict resolution, taught on the campus where flowers were offered to fearful soldiers. Viewed through the cloud of fear, contorted to seem as weapons.
Nancy Ann Smith
Amherst, Ohio
My Voice
My voice aches for the whole world to truly open its eyes and hearts to the peace we can have instead of opening their mouths to spew destructive hate
Eric Mansfield
Akron, OH
I Want
I want time to fly back where things are simple, and the smallness of life fill my dimple.
Ying-Fang Hsia
San Gabriel, California
My Voice Is
My voice waits to sing
for our needed release to dawn
Diane Pearl Gallagher
Mount Vernon, New York
Give & Take
I want to breathe in the black, oily smoke of suffering and transform it into the radiant light of compassion, straight from my heart-mind to yours.
Barbara Hefty
Cancun, Q. Roo, Mexico
My Voice Is
My voice is a finally liberated scream, ready to join the dreams of the voiceless
Katia
Kent
My Voice Is
My voice is a call to reunite with the world of poetry to find peace
Alejandra Monroy
Merida, Yucatan, Mexico
I Want
I want to find the treasure hidden in a bloody field.
Jeffrey Wattles
Stow, Ohio
My Voice Is
my voice echoes the spring wind of peace
throughout the year
nina freedlander gibans
Cleveland Ohio
My Voice stands for
My voice stands for those who stood and cared for life over death
Larry Smith
Huron, Ohio
My voice is my voice—
a muted trumpet
longing to Jazz June
but playing instead
Stars and Stripes
forever
My voice is my voice—
a temperate day
longing for the humidity
of August in NC
and praying for a thunderstorm
My voice is my voice— hurry up and wait
how long will it take,
Momma
Momma, why don't
you just make it happen?
My voice is back then,
is way back when
When?
When brown children didn't get blown up
every damn day
but the media only cares
when children that look like me get shot
(Was there ever such a time?)
My voice is my voice
Jackson D Smith
Chapel Hill, NC, USA
My Voice
My voice is quiet strength, speaking softly but with determination and intention for the greater good. Lean in to hear me
Karen Gajewski
Aurora, OH
My Voice
My voice unfolds then folds again
Lisa Testa
Akron, OH
Give & Take
Take this poem and bring peace
Jeff
Kent
I Want
I want a world with no pseudo borders, keeping me away from my brothers and sisters, we are all the sons of Adam and Eve OR Adam and hawwa OR Manu may be, we all go way back to the world with no pseudo borders, a world home of one big family
Nancy Tomar
India
My Voice
My voice wishes to reach everyone
Ana Maria
Ohio
My Voice Is
My voice is as soft as rain.
Jane
Akron
My Voice stands for
My voice stands for strong mothers and strong daughters.
Stephanie
Philadelphia
Repetition
My voice is Ohio, Ohio, Ohio!
Dre
Kent
I Want
I want green grass, fall leaves, white snow, and hot sunshine every day.
Denise
Akron
Repetition
My voice is trumpet, trumpet, trumpet.
Robert
Pittsburgh
I Want
I want people to love for the sake of loving
Justin
Aurora, OH
My Voice stands for
My voice stands for the migrant, the child far from home
Ethan
Canal Fulton
My Voice
My voice ascends over fists of anger
Olivia
Kent
My Voice Is
My voice is a seagull searching for safe harbor.
Sally Burnell
Kent, OH
My Voice stands for
My voice stands for a clarion against oppression.
Gipko Family
Pittsburgh, PA
My Voice
My voice is heard the loudest
when I do not shout.
Charlie Dunn
Kent, Ohio
My Voice stands for
Take back assault rifles, give our children a chance.
Gipko Family
Pittsburgh, PA
I want people to have the choice to follow their own path on the journey of life
Moira ledinsky
My Voice Is
My voice is like the rain hitting the window
Ryanne Locker
Perry OH
My Voice stands for
My voice stands for putting a stop to violence in schools.
Kaitlyn Leasure
Canton, OH, USA
I Want
I want bullets to be a horror of the past. I want arms to be the kind that hug.
lemon
Missouri, USA
My Voice Is
My voice is like fireworks
I
Emily
I Want
I want the oceans singing in the legs of ants to heal the broken heartwood of firs and cedars
anonymous
edge of Turtle Island
My voice is the beginning of Peace
Molly Mains
Kent, OH
Give & Take
Take back hate fueled by fear and give us understanding ignited with compassion.
Chrystal Shook
Kent Ohio
My Voice
My voice rejects the bullets of rage, the burst of misunderstanding.
Jeff Kersh
Jackson, MS
My voice stands for welcoming and including every person into our community
Karen Beck
Kent, Ohio
My Voice
My voice longs for your voice, for harmony.
Paula J. Lambert
Columbus, Ohio
My Voice Is
My voice is peace, there is no war here
my voice is love, you are never alone
my voice is light, to help you come home
Caroline Menzies
Owen Sound, Ontario
I Want
I want children's voices to be heard when they cry for peace!
Jodi Birch VanDyk
OwenSound, On. Canada
I Want
I want mothman, or a person dressed similarly, to kiss me in my $30 Walmart kiddie pool as we hold hands beneath the bright summer sun, I want there to be more sun in summer and more feathery moth-kisses.
Josh
Cuyahoga Falls
Give & Take
Take back the waves and give us full rising moon.
Mary
Akron
My Voice stands for
My voice stands for the girls with poetic hearts, hectic minds and tired souls
Allyson Nichols
Massillon, OH
Repetition
My voice is joy, joy, joy
Anonymous
Kent State University Student
Repetition
My voice is fight, fight, fight
Anonymous
Kent State University Student
Repetition
I want to live, to live, to live
Anonymous
Kent State University Student
Repetition
My voice is endless, endless, endless
Anonymous
Kent State University Student
Repetition
My voice is rippling, rippling, rippling
Anonymous
Kent State University Student
Repetition
My voice is stuck, stuck, stuck
Anonymous
Kent State University Student
Repetition
My voice is for hope, hope, hope
Anonymous
Kent State University Student
Repetition
Take back those who don’t believe and give us a meadow full of wildflowers
Anonymous
Kent State University Student
Repetition
Take back the violence of our people and give back the voices of the unappreciated
Anonymous
Kent State University Student
Repetition
Take back the carbon, give back the trees
Anonymous
Kent State University Student
Repetition
Give life to the ocean and take back the trash
Anonymous
Kent State University Student
Repetition
Take back the bullets and give back a lifetime of books
Anonymous
Kent State University Student
Repetition
Take the hatred boiling to the surface and gives us love that covers the world
Anonymous
Kent State University Student
Repetition
Take back our shame and give us pride
Anonymous
Kent State University Student
Repetition
Take back our tears and give us harmony
Anonymous
Kent State University Student
Repetition
I want to live though there is no sound
Anonymous
Kent State University Student
Repetition
I want to feel secure when I take my daily walk to class
Anonymous
Kent State University Student
Repetition
I want to be the hope for all lost and injured animals
Anonymous
Kent State University Student
Repetition
I want no one to hunger for anything
Anonymous
Kent State University Student
Repetition
I want people to listen to the Earth
Anonymous
Kent State University Student
I Want
I want all women to be praised
Anonymous
Kent State University Student
I Want
I want to stop the burning of our forests
Anonymous
Kent State University Student
I Want
I want to help heal the hearts of the broken and battered
Anonymous
Kent State University Student
I Want
I want the world to open its eyes
Anonymous
Kent State University Student
I Want
I want the lost to be remembered, honored, to have more impact than just today
Anonymous
Kent State University Student
I Want
I want change in the world, add hope back into hearts
Anonymous
Kent State University Student
I Want
I want people not to think about caste and religion
Anonymous
Kent State University Student
I Want
I want to see the unseen
Anonymous
Kent State University Student
My voice is quiet like the night yet strong as a storm
Anonymous
My voice is like a lion in the jungle
Anonymous
I want a paper flag in the wind, not constrained by the shouting voices of return
Anonymous
Repetition
My voice fights against all odds
Anonymous
Kent State University Student
Repetition
My voice thunders
Anonymous
Kent State University Student
Repetition
My voice lives like bubbles
Anonymous
Kent State University Student
Repetition
My voice persists
Anonymous
Kent State University Student
My Voice
My voice amplifies
Anonymous
Kent State University
My Voice
My voice slices
Anonymous
Kent State University
My Voice
My voice has not and is no longer
Anonymous
Kent State University
My Voice
My voice longs. My voice searches
Anonymous
KSU
My Voice
My voice runs through the forest
Anonymous
Kent State University
My Voice
My voice sings, rad and sweet
Anonymous
Kent State
My Voice
My voice shrieks and deepens
Anonymous
Kent State University
My Voice
My voice lingers
Anonmyous
KSU
My Voice
My voice stands for every mother’s lost lipstick
Anonymous
Kent State University
My Voice
My voice stands for the children crying in cages
Anonymous
Kent State
My Voice
My voice stands for every story cut short
Anonymous
Kent State
My Voice
My voice stands for those without one, loud enough to scream
Anonymous
Kent State University
My Voice
My voice stands for all the people hiding from the cold
Anonymous
Kent State University
My Voice
My voice stands for all of the small trees
Anonymous
Kent State University
My Voice
My voice stands for silence in a pandemonic din
Anonymous
Kent State
My Voice
My voice stands for every woman who lost their freedom because of a forced baby
Anonymous
Kent State University
My Voice
My voice stands for every teen lost to a bullet
Anonymous
Kent State University
My Voice
My voice stands for every person forced to hide who they love
Anonymous
KSU
My Voice
My voice is the soul of the lost, wandering through the night
Anonymous
Kent State University
My Voice
My voice stands for love, for peace, for all those who were silent
Anonymous
Kent State University
My Voice
My voice stands for power, a cry out for change to the universe
Anonymous
Kent State University
My Voice Is
My voice is a whisper of reassurance, echoing above the chaotic cacophony of confusion
Anonymous
Kent State
My Voice stands for
My voice is the trembling of train tracks during winter
Anonymous
Kent State University
My Voice stands for
My voice is a flower popping out of the ground after a harsh winter
Anonymous
Kent State University
My Voice Is
My voice is a field of sunflowers, a granite memorial
A field of sunflowers, a granite memorial
Kent State University
My Voice stands for
My voice is the tallest tree in the Amazon
Anonymous
Kent State University
My Voice Is
My voice is the morning dew that covers the grass
Anonymous
Kent State
My Voice Is
My voice is a summer breeze taken by cold weather
Anonymous
Kent State University'
My Voice Is
My voice is a boulder, a river, a shot gun
Anonymous
KSU
My Voice Is
My voice is a cherry blossom tree’s petals gracefully falling to the ground
Anonymous
KSU
My Voice stands for
My voice was once covered by the sounds of glaciers falling
Anonymous
Kent State University
My Voice stands for
My voice is a paving stone on the road to things greater.
Anonymous
Kent State University
My Voice stands for
My voice is my power, my tool, my burden to hold
Anonymous
Kent State University
My Voice stands for
My voice is a crashing waterfall into a tranquil lake
Anonymous
Kent State University
My Voice Is
My voice is a rainbow ranging from one color to another
Anonymous, Kent State University
Kent
My Voice stands for
My voice stands for Justice, the mother of Peace.
Toomas Tubalkain
Mantua, Ohio, USA
My Voice Is
My voice is an echo of hundreds before
my voice is reaching toward a common goal
anonymous
columbus ohio
Give & Take
Take back our walls and give us doors.
Peter M.
Kent, OH
I Want
I want a universe of poetry, a galaxy of ever-expanding peace.
Stevie
Stow