As a night fog engulfed old Moore Square. Vandals set upon the park to erect a Peace Pole. It sat undisturbed over a decade only noticed in passing by people walking through old Moore Square. Festivals and happiness as well as homelessness and despair happened within the shadow of Raleigh’s Peace Pole.
One morning park renovation workers wearing Orange vest and hard hats began to apply their shovels to remove Raleigh’s Peace Pole. It was loaded onto a city pick up truck, hauled off to a city warehouse where the Peace Pole was placed on a shelf.
Since the removal of Raleigh’s Peace Pole in 2017 from old Moore Square it seems to have ignited our World on Fire. A lot of stuff has gone on. Some really bad stuff. To much stuff. More stuff than I have ever seen in my lifetime.
What is next? More Mask this fall? We acknowledge our nation is drifting into global conflict? We begin drafting 18 year old’s who own assault weapons? Will an insurrection and violent attack on our nation’s Capitol be voted away? It could be anything.
My advice is to place Raleigh’s humble Peace Pole behind the Chapel on Dix Park. Hide it in the garden kept by Raleigh’s Garden Club. It is discreet, a kind greeting and it may save the world.
So obvious the Removal of Raleigh’s Peace Pole has tilted the world bringing division and sorrow. Just like the Vandals’ who trespassed with hope and intentions to bring Peace to the world. Raleigh owes it to our World Burning to reinstall our humble Peace pole and hope for the best.
I first noticed the Peace Pole outside of the Sixteenth street Baptist church in Birmingham, Alabama. The next one I found shared a space with a concrete sculpture of Mama Watts in the shadow of Watt’s Tower. Hundreds of Peace Poles stand at significant places all over the world. Ours must have been special.
Originally posted 2022-06-30 04:41:33.
