1. Anna, an award-winning poet, wrote this poem in response to experiencing Jill's song The Time Has Come (Song No. 14 in Unlocking the Power of Song: A Companion for Challenging Times; the song is also on our 'Peace' recording)
Giving Voice
or,
Sound - Health
for Peace
Tonight I trudge from a barren place
me to myself alone sounds dumb
until, deeply-focussed
Your voice intones an old old song:
Now is the time
To sing of love
Listening voices rise, responsive each to each
falling they melt above – below each
into each as we expand the dehydrated air
until, between us
resonates this structure of pitched sounds:
an intangible texture, our transport
unbounded
awestruck
We’re now beyond known bounds —
Later we note: each intentional ear
composes our harmonised we
For in joining together and giving voice
in concert we recreate, are always this song:
Now IS the time
To sing song of love …
Shantih shantih shantiiih
© Anna Taylor, March 2006
2. Carolyn was inspired to write a Haiku in response to her experience with the same song –
Sing a song of love
Spread the sound through space
To reach the silence
Carolyn Cable
3. Carolyn was drawn to create another haiku – in response to engaging with Jill's Being Chant (No. 6 in Unlocking the Power of Song – a Companion for Challenging Times.)
The ever changing moon
Seen behind a misty cloud
Yet turns tides by being
Carolyn Cable
4. Gytau wrote this after a attending a GV group with Jill –
