Peteskibreen's Blog

NOW IS THE TIME

Now is the time for art

for music

for poetry

for angry marks on walls

for silent walks

added to staring under trees

as water drips and lands at our feet.

Now is the time for action

and contemplation

for listening

and hugging children slightly longer

and living in today while today shines.

Now is the time to seek out a story by

an Iranian poet

music by an Ahmenian mystic

prayers by an Irish nun.

Now is the time for planting pumpkins

making bread

spending less

and giving more

enjoying with new eyes

our places, spaces, people.

Now is the time for open doors

welcoming strangers

wondering more

blaming less

being tender

refusing isolation

beginning solitude.

Now as always is this call

this call of grace to climb again the hills of pain

for joy not conquering

for love not winning

for peace not war.

Now is

the time.

Peter Breen

1 of 25 drawings for “I want to tell you” for #45 Soul and Body Berlin Artist Magazine. Charcoal, guache, graphite, gesso, ageing encyclopedia papes, glue on 160 gsm paper.