The Year of the Poet VII June 2020

ForewordWe talked of information explosion in the late 1980s, the information superhighways through the 1990s. We are so much engrossed to leave our digital foot prints today but the Greater Peace is always hash tagged with love, humanity and core values. "Peace is the loaf of bread for a beggar the first monsoon for a farmer a butterfly on the mast of a submarine five elements of a creation seven notes of music''Peace is a journey and never a destination. So, in the process of learning to inculcate inner peace in our lives we search, research and recognise the values. The perception of peace is different for different people.This month's theme was dedicated to Noble Peace laureate Albert John Luthuli, also spelled as Lutuli. He was a Zulu chief, religious leader, teacher, and president of the African National Congress (ANC), South Africa. He became the first African to be honoured with the prestigious Nobel Prize for Peace in 1960 for his leadership role in non-violent struggle against the apartheid rule in South Africa. He had a noble bearing, and was intolerant of hatred, and firmly struggled for equality and peace among all men of the South African society. He was awarded the Nobel Peace prize for advocating non-violent resistance against apartheid in South Africa. In leading his people, he was always democratic and consulted his people before any decision taken. He was honest, transparent and accountable to his people.In his acceptance speech he said "May the day come soon. when the people of the world will rouse themselves, and together effectively stamp out any threat to peace in whatever quarter of the world it may be found, ''The Inner Child Press with its mission of building bridges of cultural understanding takes the responsibility for global peace and harmony through poetry with International Anthologies. We respect the great peace leaders, the land, nature, folk tales, culture, music, literature, perceptions, ideas, thoughts, language and all ethnic groups of the world.Literature has undergone a tectonic change. We express our deep reverence to all the noble peace laureates for they are the apostles of a time zone who have solved the situations, saved human lives and helped the economic, cultural social growth of society. The Year of the Poet has dedicated each month of 2020 to the noble peace laureates.Poetry is the living song of human race ........We respect the humanity ...We respect history and coexistenceLet us join our hands for peace and build a paradise on the Earth ...Swapna Behera Cultural Ambassador of India and South East Asia for Inner Child Press International