🌿 Stories of Peace: A Community Storytelling Walk in the Park 🌿
Part of the Coventry Peace Festival 2025
🕊️ A Walk for Peace and Connection
What if stories could bring people closer, heal divisions, and inspire hope?
This November, Emerald Book Club invites you to experience just that at Red House Park, Coventry, as part of the Coventry Peace Festival 2025.
Stories of Peace: A Community Storytelling Walk in the Park will offer residents a calm, creative, and inclusive space to connect, reflect, and celebrate Coventry’s identity as a City of Peace and Reconciliation.
The event encourages people from diverse backgrounds to come together outdoors, share personal stories, listen to others, and build mutual understanding. Through storytelling and poetry, participants will explore themes of peace, forgiveness, and unity in a way that strengthens empathy and social cohesion.
This activity promotes mental wellbeing by combining gentle movement, nature, and creative expression. It will also help reduce isolation by creating opportunities for conversation, friendship, and intergenerational connection in a relaxed, welcoming setting.
By fostering dialogue and respect through the shared power of words, Stories of Peace will strengthen community spirit and highlight the importance of peace and reconciliation in everyday life.
📖 Discover the Power of Shared Stories
Our event, Stories of Peace, is more than just a walk — it’s a journey through words, voices, and shared experiences.
As we stroll through the park’s peaceful paths, local storytellers and poets will share powerful tales and poems about peace, forgiveness, and unity.
Each stop along the walk will open a window into how storytelling connects us all — across generations, cultures, and communities.
💚 Be Part of Something Meaningful
Imagine spending an afternoon surrounded by nature, listening to stories that warm the heart and spark reflection.
Whether you want to listen, share, or simply be part of a peaceful moment, Stories of Peace is for you.
Together, we’ll celebrate Coventry’s proud legacy as a City of Peace and Reconciliation — and remind ourselves of the beauty found in every voice.
🌍 Join Us!
📅 Date: Saturday 8 November 2025
🕐 Time: 1–3 PM
📍 Location: Red House Park, Coventry
💫 Free Event | All Welcome | No Booking Required
Come walk with us.
Listen. Share. Connect.
Let’s tell stories that bring peace to our city — one step and one word at a time.
🔖 About the Coventry Peace Festival
The Coventry Peace Festival celebrates the city’s ongoing role as a City of Peace and Reconciliation, offering creative and community-led events that promote unity, understanding, and hope.
Emerald Book Club is proud to be part of this year’s programme with support from Coventry City Council.
Poems About Peace
Making Peace by Denise Levertov
Peace Walk by William Stafford
Peace by George Herbert
Sweet Peace, where dost thou dwell? I humbly crave,
Let me once know.
I sought thee in a secret cave,
And ask’d, if Peace were there,
A hollow wind did seem to answer, No:
Go seek elsewhere.
I did; and going did a rainbow note:
Surely, thought I,
This is the lace of Peace’s coat:
I will search out the matter.
But while I looked the clouds immediately
Did break and scatter.
Then went I to a garden and did spy
A gallant flower,
The crown-imperial: Sure, said I,
Peace at the root must dwell.
But when I digged, I saw a worm devour
What showed so well.
At length I met a rev’rend good old man;
Whom when for Peace
I did demand, he thus began:
There was a Prince of old
At Salem dwelt, who lived with good increase
Of flock and fold.
He sweetly lived; yet sweetness did not save
His life from foes.
But after death out of his grave
There sprang twelve stalks of wheat;
Which many wond’ring at, got some of those
To plant and set.
It prospered strangely, and did soon disperse
Through all the earth:
For they that taste it do rehearse
That virtue lies therein;
A secret virtue, bringing peace and mirth
By flight of sin.
Take of this grain, which in my garden grows,
And grows for you;
Make bread of it: and that repose
And peace, which ev’ry where
With so much earnestness you do pursue,
Is only there.
Peace Poem by Alan Robertson
The Poem for Peace
Lay down the poppies let the white doves fly,
We all pray for peace is the new battle cry.
Heavy gun fire comes down overhead,
This never should happen as this shall be said.
Those guns and bullets that take all our young,
We all cry for peace let this song be sung.
Let’s lay down the guns, let’s lay down all arms,
So these noble young men can return to their cities and farms.
Peace now and forever is the new battle cry,
Repeating these words until the day I shall die.
A . W . Funston – Robertson
16-10-2024
Let Peace Prevail In This World by Ravi Sathasivam
When you look for peace
then the peace lies within you
When you search for peace
then it is not hard to find
When you want to keep peace alive
then you allow white doves to fly over you
When you make peace with others
then the whole world live in your heart
When you let peace be in the world
then you live in wonderful world
When you allow peace flow around the world
then your hateness will go and love will flow
When you open the door for peace
then peace welcome to your lives.
Let the peace prevail in our wonderful world
Clown in the Moon
clown in the moon by Dylan thomas
My tears are like the quiet drift
Of petals from some magic rose;
And all my grief flows from the rift
Of unremembered skies and snows.
The Richest Man in Babylon
The Richest Man in Babylon is a 1926 book by George S. Clason that dispenses financial advice through a collection of parables set 4,097 years earlier, in ancient Babylon
Think and Grow Rich
Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill is a classic self-help book that outlines a philosophy for personal achievement and financial success, focusing on the power of the mind and persistent effort. Originally published in 1937, it has since sold millions of copies worldwide and remains a cornerstone of modern motivational literature
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