RAW Voices: Moon Time by Debra Hall
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Moon Time is a poem by Debra Hall. May it land in all your bodies.
Debra Hall is an artist-poet with a degree in English and Inter-Arts, specialising in using creative and expressive arts therapeutically. She has taught creative writing and Batik making as a community arts tutor and completed facilitator’s training with Survivor’s Poetry Scotland. She’ also a trained rites of passage guide in the Scottish Highlands in the tradition of the School of Lost Borders.
Debra lives in a beautiful glen in South West Scotland. www.herwholenature.com/
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Show transcript
00:00:10: This is Radically
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00:00:44: this November.
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00:01:19: synergy with the earth, trees birds creatures and insects.
00:01:26: Time was the cycles of the moon The seasons And the patterns Of the stars.
00:01:32: In their vastness It engendered balance and wonder Invented by our foremothers The first shamans Who tended the hearthfires A measure of soul.
00:01:52: The women nodded and smiled to each other as they notched their rhythm.
00:01:57: sticks made from birch wood, a woolly mammoth bone.
00:02:02: Like spiders at the centre of a miraculous web They pulled each fine filigree into place while the mycelium in the loam beneath them Made a million meaningful connections Above their heads carved along the curve of cave wall, The body of a woman who became known as the Venus of Lausel.
00:02:29: One hand pointed to her womb and the other held up a bison horn notched thirteen times for the natural years thirty moons.
00:02:40: For twenty five thousand years almost every image and carving Of this sacred was Woman.
00:02:48: Hierarchy didn't exist.
00:02:51: Weaponry and wars were unimaginable, culture art and love flourished.
00:02:59: Nothing about their discerning wisdom or our need for it has changed.
00:03:06: The women stayed faithful to time's pulse some as nomads Some intimate with one place For the whole lives.
00:03:16: Until those grandmothers And elders Their axes shifted, all separation ceased.
00:03:25: The earth became them and they became the
00:03:29: Earth.".
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