Four Nonkilling Poems

Last Updated (Tuesday, 19 May 2009 20:05) Written by Francisco Gomes de Matos Tuesday, 19 May 2009 20:03

JOURNALISM FOR A NONKILLING WORLD
 a poem by Francisco Gomes de Matos, a peace linguist from Recife,Brazil

  Journalists,
  a new, formative role you can globally  play
  in exercising your right of informing and questioning
  if to Humankind in all languages you dare say

  As an area of social communication and a genre ,Journalism keeps diversifying
  humanizing challenges we face when in print and electronically creating
  and doing our best so that (re)construction of reality can become dignifying

  we can help readers-listeners-viewers become aware of peaceful living
  through constructively,cooperativevly crafted texts and hypertexts
  in which we enhance the need for sustaining more forms of hope-giving

  we believe there is a global service in which we journalists can excel:
  that of contributing to improving universal  communicative health
  by practicing a Nonkilling Journalism which will help Society live well

  NEEDED :a NONKILLING HISTORY OF THE WORLD
  a poem-plea by Francisco Gomes de Matos, an applied peace linguist
  from Recife,Brazil

  In History books a vocabulary of destruction abounds:
  wars,battles,mass slaughters,conflicts,massacres,struggles are described
  showing how shameful  Mankind´s history often sounds

  Historians,you can give your field  a new quality
  if you become deeply humanizing questioners
  focusing on people and events that dignify Humanity

   To serve as a good example tomorrow
   the history being made  today
   should help Peace replace  sorrow

    Some day,a NONKILLING History will have its place:
    Harmony will be found in every heart
    and friendship will be shown on  every face

NEWSMAKERS AS NONKILLING NOURISHERS
 by Francisco Gomes de Matos, an applied peace linguist from Recife,Brazil

NEWS
DAILY NEWS
GOOD OR BAD NEWS
BREAKING NEWS
HEARTBREAKING NEWS
DEHUMANIZING NEWS
DEVASTATING NEWS
HUMAN-KILLING NEWS
PEACE-KILLING NEWS
NEEDED: NONKILLING NEWS
THE ULTIMATE NONKILLING NEWS
THE NEWS OF NEWS : NO KILLING NEWS
NEWSMAKERS,PLEASE NOURISH NONKILLING NEWS

 NONKILLING FOR LYRICISTS :a  plea
 by Francisco Gomes de Matos, an applied peace linguist from Recife,Brazil

MUSIC is said to be the language of emotion
why can´t more music and lyrics be  composed
with the deepest expression of LIFE-devotion?
NONKILLINGLY  here is what could be proposed

LYRICISTS, please write  lyrics  that LIFE-sustain
          please avoid  lyrics  that LIFE-restrain
          please write   lyrics  that LIFE-maintain
          please avoid    lyrics that LIFE-detain
          please write   lyrics that NONVIOLENCE attain
          please avoid   lyrics that VIOLENCE contain

LYRICISTS, NONKILLING lyrics you are urged to invent
         so HUMANKIND emotionally healthy will  be
         KILLING lyrics you are expected to prevent
         from doing harm  to people,to  you and me