Alidaide

Let me not to the carriage of new enterprise

Warn caution o’er the fickleness of fate

Innovators screw their courage, seek the prize -

To bring DR, like NBN, to every gate.

Berlin, Paris, Suva and Auckland,

The global DR movement gathers pace

Can we, once pioneers, match this stout band?

Yes – though girt by sea we’re still in the race

For from Adelaide’s fair Torrens in the glade,

Fair Ali’s laid the ground with worthy toil

Full wondrous labours - DR’s handsome maid

Will spread Shawmed to all of national soil

Soon arb-med, med-arb, determination pure,

Will essay forth from SA’s fertile Shaw.

-Ali Shaw Mediation Workshop, Adelaide, 16 August 2016