Poets For Humanity (PFH) is a web site dedicated to helping raise humanity's awareness of the many humanitarian crises on planet earth at the moment.

None of the poetry here is about the beauty of Nature, Love, Desire, Angst or the wonder of city traffic on a foggy night.

It is about the inhumanity of humanity. It is about the ugliness of closing our eyes, ears and minds to the suffering of others because doing so stops their pain from interfering with our pleasures.

Why? You may well ask.

I believe everything on this planet earth is connected, the living, but also the apparently non-living, and I believe those links are stronger within a species group. In other words, we share a planet, and we share a common human soul. A soul which touches, and is touched by, our smaller individual souls. The suffering of other peoples is a part of our environment, and if we are truly alive it touches us, touches our hearts. And even if we are asleep, it touches our reality. By caring we make a contribution to the process of healing, by speaking out we reinforce our caring and make connections.

PFH is about believing in raindrops, and in being willing to be a raindrop. Yes we all know we cannot solve the problems on our own, and a single raindrop cannot fill the ocean, but raindrops are seldomly found on their own, and together they can work miracles. PFH is not about chastising humanity for its faults, it is about helping the process of healing by being aware.

I believe that the only way to persuade politicians and businessmen to do something about the the many real problems of the world is to make them understand that these problems are important to us. When the powers that rule our countries understand that the solving of these humanitarian problems is more important to us than owning an SUV or giving our kids the latest play station then they will do something.

By writing poetry about the problems, we as poets begin the process of changing society's awareness. By telling others, our friends, teachers and politicians to come and read the poetry, to spread the word we move it along a little more. As I said above, individual raindrops are small, but they are also essential to life, so I urge you to become a raindrop in the human soul; Read, Write and Spread the Words.

I sincerely urge teachers to bring their students here, get them to think about what is written, to comment on it, to contribute. I urge everybody to write to their local political representatives telling them to visit the site. One voice is a whisper, ten thousand is shout that changes the world.

I am starting this web site with my own poetry, but I am calling on all poets to contribute something. But be warned, I will not post anything that contains bad language or anything that attacks an individual, or anything that lacks grammar and punctuation. If you are a serious poet then you will learn to use the tools of the trade, poetry is about the BEST usage of the language. Previously published poetry is more than acceptable.

Please put the word 'poetry' in the subject of your submission, put the poem in the body of your submission and include your name, country of residence and the focus of the the poem, i.e. Chechnya, or Haiti, I will add new topics to the list above as I receive them. Send submissions to GJRamel@hotmail.com .

Thank you for participating in life.

Links to Related Web sites

The Hypertexts- edited by Michael Birch - There is a lot there, scroll down, scroll down.
 
Esther Cameron's Hexagon - Point & Circumference dedicated to enhancing the role of poets in the collective human consciousness.
 
The Eclectic Muse - A Journal of highly readable poetry edited by Joe M. Ruggier
 
CarrrieAnne Thunnel's Nisqually Delta Review, dedicated to poetry with a Deep Ecology focus
 
Ecology Info a web site dedicated to making ecological understanding more available to ordinary people (includes some poetry).
 
Mulitcultural Books of BC Canada - good poetry and more.