Since moving off grid I have found internet access challenging. No time to write a new medicine poem and so this is an older write but with the addition of a musical accompaniment on Kalimba by fellow musician and poet Christine Stevens.
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Well paced audio. I like how you didn’t put the text down so one would have to hear it. I also liked how this started out with observing that we let go of things we don’t know we let go of.
An interesting exercise in Poetics, Paul–although I would like to have seen the words, the magic and feel of riding the words, diving off the ends of lines, feeling the melody from the refrains.
I’m having trouble playing the recording. I’ve tried several times and can’t figure out what I’m doing wrong. Let me see if you’ve posted it on Twitter; maybe I’ll have better luck there.
Use your head set and you can hear it well.
I will try again — have to locate some working headphones first. 🙂
I enjoyed the meditative effect of the music and words. I also enjoyed hearing O Holy Night in a different language at the end.
Dwight
My heart bleeds too Paul.
Only humankind has the medicine we need to save this Earth of ours – but we are unable to swallow it. We live for the now…
Anna
I could listen to this again and again.
Wow! I will need to listen to this many more times. Hauntingly beautiful.
I love that you have read your poem to music, Paul. Giving away time is something we don’t realise until it’s too late.
A refreshing presentation. There is urgency in the message but the voice remains calm and soothing. Encouraging and healing.
Being off grid must be total medicine 🙂
Very prophetical
This is amazing. It sounds like a prayer, a meditation, especially with the repetition. The music is a perfect accompaniment.
Evocative and prophetic! The musical accompaniment works so well!