The cover of these prophetic and passionate poems show a mushroom cloud in the distance yet the reality of nuclear missiles is mindlessly near. The nasty picture of a Drone in the foreground reveals a dangerous future. The red color percolates up through the parched earth to represent the values of peace, justice and ecology. The occasions at the bottom of the readings are hints to the context of the poems. Some poems have a mind of their own but often the poems are lit up by political and mundane living. Volume 2 of this trilogy of Prophetic Poetry is a key to a door of hope -- open it

This third volume is part of a trilogy of Prophetic Poetry books, written to imagine peace, justice and ecology. But it is the way to achieve these goals through openness, authenticity and love. In a labor of love, poetry becomes an expression of imagination to soften the hard edges, like water flowing over stones to make them smoother. It's all this and more, as you open these pages and reflect on how to protest the madness. The cover shows that we need stepping stones to travel to the other side and still be able to listen to the spirit of flowing water.

This poetry becomes an agent of transformation in offering a new direction for our lives. It provokes a little holy agitation by tossing poems like pebbles into placid pools of water to cause some waves. Such poetry gives us prophetic alerts to pay attention to things that matter, like peace not war, like economic and immigrant justice, like an earthy passion for life more than death. This book of poems describes a link between poets and peacemakers:Maybe peacemakers are like insurgent poets,Irrelevant, dissident, disregarding the status quo,Imagining a vision of a world that gets alongThis poetry--too dangerous for right wing religion--will offer a resource for church activists and for taking the next step of courage. It will be a companion for marching to a different drummer and hearing the still voice of God amplified through ordinary occasions.