All The Flowers Have Returned
Where Have All the Flowers Gone? is one of The antiwar, more specifically antimilitarism, songs of all time. In its simplicity and kind tune, it gives a sense of boredom about everything that war involves. In fact, it is a circular song, it ends where it started, and it summarizes the consequences of war: the flowers have been taken by the young girls, the girls have been gone married to the young men, the young men have become soldiers, the soldiers have been gone to the graveyards, the graveyards have been covered with flowers.
Pete Seeger wrote the first three verses of the song in 1955, while on a plane going to a concert in Ohio. He was inspired by a passage from a traditional Ukrainian folk song which he had read about in the novel And Quiet Flows the Don written in 1934 by Russian Nobel Prize in Literature winner Mikhail Sholokhov. The remaining two verses were added by Joe Hickerson five years later.
Pete Seegar would have been a delighted soul, had he witnessed this most heartening incident that occurred in 2015. A Palestinian woman in the village of Bilin, near the State of Palestine’s de facto capital of Ramallah, has planted a garden full of flowers grown inside of spent tear-gas grenades collected from clashes between Israeli soldiers and local Palestinians. It is a fitting homage to Seeger's poem as she nurtured beautiful flowers to life from the very weapons of war.
(Source: Dailymail)
As this Palestinian woman has demonstrated, we do not need the knowledge to make grenades but we simply need to seek the heart that wants to see the Daisies bloom. Wars have claimed more lives than any pandemic ever did. Wars don't give real Victories. In it only millions die, thousands get sad and few hundreds get happy but not by heart but just as a satisfaction. The real victory is in peace where everybody follows universal brotherhood and helps each other in difficult situations.
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