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Recipe for Peace by Devreaux Baker* This beautiful poem by Devreaux Baker expresses the sentiment of caring and sharing for each other through the simple act of baking bread, the simple act of cooking and eating together as a global family. contributed by Geri Andrews RECIPE FOR PEACE Bare your feet, roll up your sleeves oil the immigrant's bowl open the doors and windows of your house invite in the neighbors, invite in strangers off the street roll out the dough, add the spices for a good life cardamon and soul, cumin and tears stir in sesame and sorrow, a dash of salt pink as new hope rub marjaram and thyme, lemon grass and holy basil on your fingers and pat the dough bless the table, bless the bread bless your hands and feet bless the neighbors and strangers off the street bake the bread for a century or more on a moderate heat under the olive trees in your back yard or on the sun filled stones of Syria in the white rocks of Beirut or behind the walls of Jerusalem in the mountains of Afghanistan and in the sky scrapers of New York feast with all the migrant tongues until your mouth understands the taste of many different homes and your belly is full so you fall asleep cradled in the skirts of the world curled in the lap of peace. *source: https://www.poems-for-peace.org/
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