Not everywhere around the world has been fortunate enough to experience a peaceful end to 2024 with the opportunity to look towards a better future in 2025. Einstein famously said, “Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.” So my hope for 2025 is for more understanding both of each other and our planet. But what about you?

Wherever you might be and whatever your reflections, hopes and possibilities are for this new year we’d love to hear them. Send your poems to ozchildrenspoetry@gmail.com and remember if you’re attaching an image, please make sure you have permission to use the image and provide a URL for that image in order to avoid any copyright issues.

Happy 2025 everyone.

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