Passionate Peace

"Passionate Peace" is a poem written by Michael J. Hayes of St. Johns, MI in 2008, as part of the Tri-Sola Poetry collection.

Historical significance
"Passionate Peace" is the first poem to be written after Tri-Sola Poetry became a division of the much-larger collection known as Tri-Sola Writings. It is also the first poem published for Tri-Sola Poetry in 2008.

Message
The major themes of this poem deal with Memorial Day, and with the doubts veterans sometimes feel when they call what went wrong in the campaigns of certain wars. When the veteran in the poem begins to question if anything in his life was worth living when he reflects on the worst parts of both the war and his own personal life, it is the comfort of the cross that soothes his troubled soul.