“On a blessed odyssey are those who poetically craft peace."
For many years as a peace professional I stopped writing poetry. Then poems crept in on the margins of “formal” work until they found a home at the center of how I envision the craft of moving between enmities. I watch for them now – in conversations, in my musings and mutterings, in the lived experience, these seedlings of life that defy the barrenness of violence. I have included here several poems that I wrote in the months following 9/11. Three moments. Three countries. Three conversations.
Lederach, John Paul. “Three Poems.” The Center for Mennonite Writing Journal 3, no. 5-The Poetry of Peace (September 11, 2011).
Shared with the permission of The Journal of Mennonite Writing. These poems first appeared in the Journal of Mennonite Writing (CMW Journal), Volume 3, Issue 5, September 11, 2011.
A collection of poems gathered between late 2019 and throughout 2020.
Poetry, photos, and reflections about the mystery and mindfulness of poetry emergent from a year-long experiment to write a haiku a day.
