World Poetry Celebrates Aida Roque !

 Ariadne’s Notes: On October 3, another moving peace poem was read on the World Poetry Cafe radio show. from the author, Aida G. Roque! She’s from Wilmington, Delaware, USA. A retired Sped teacher in Maryland Public School and a faculty member of the University of Santo Tomas in Manila, where she earned her degree in Education and Siena College as School Psychometrician before she moved to the USA. She also obtained her Graduate Studies in Master’s degree in Special Education and Post Graduate at The University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia as the Teacher Ambassador Scholarship Program. Authored and published three children’s books and an anthology with another group of poets around the world. Her other poems were selected and published by renowned publishers in New York, the SPILLWORDS PRESS Publishing Company and Poetry Soup.

Since the show was not archived, I am putting the poem on site and plan on re-reading the poems that were not saved Thursday on the World Poetry Cafe radio show 100.5 FM, radio show the October 10 from 1-10 pm PST.

THEME OF POEM: PEACE

“ONE BROTHER, ONE NATION “

We all live on one planet and in God’s

hands, we were molded from dirt and 

when we die, to dust, we will all return.

We are born naked and no wealth 

and back to its final journey empty.

In God’s eyes, we’re all special,

our apprehension leads us to

dissimulation of judgment,

creating jealousy, hatred and 

greediness, that evoke a chaos life.

We should have no borders to cross 

and no immigration officers to scrutinize, 

 with one faith in one God, no race and no

declaration of skin color. Nobody is 

illegal or displaced immigrants.

Now, I sing my glorious song and thanksgiving 

for God gave you and me as one brother,

from umbilical cord and one universal type of

blood flowing on our vein, inherited from our ancestors,

from Africa, who live in a continent, we now share us one home,

our one and only planet earth.

©aroque

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“I, Aida G. Roque, permit this group to publish this original poem, that was never been published before.”