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Haikus for Peace

Conflict and PeacemakersPoetry

Sadako

Her love and her hope

Carry with her until death

Carry with us now

World Peace

A blue sky, no clouds

A gentle ocean, so still

Only happiness

Thunderbolt

A powerful heat,

A murderous, blinding flash

All that is left, scars

1,000 Cranes

Their soft, gentle wings

Hover over Sadako

And fill her with hope

Lexi Longo is 12 years old and a 6th grader at the Tower Hill School in Delaware. She loves Shakespeare, enjoys reading and writing and dreams of someday writing an novel, likely about Shakespeare.

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