Food for Thought for Friday -- Recipe for Peace

Last weekend I had a the great honour to meet poet, Colin Will and be shown round Dunbar in Scotland. Why oh why had I never been there before? Well I tend to go to people not places and before I knew Colin I knew noone in Dunbar. 

Colin and I shared some poetry on that occasion sitting in a WWI exhibition and later discussed how these connections between people are so important in mutual understanding and how children should be taught the lessons of peace. Thanks Colin.

That Day in Dunbar

On the anniversary

of the beginning of

the first  world war

I shared poetry

in Dunbar

with a man of peace

on a peaceful shore

and thought how lucky

placed in time we are.

Still we export arms to kill

with futuristic efficiency

undiscriminating far

and wide the lens

lies hidden and politicians

spin their truth only

death wins the day

and money drowns

children’s cries.

By Oonah Joslin 2014