Name: Seeding the Solstice
Duration: P00H02M30S
Description: A poem written and read by Bob Beagrie with music composed by SJ Forth. The poem is published in 'The Last Almanac' Yaffle Press 2023.

Seeding the Solstice

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A poem written and read by Bob Beagrie with music composed by SJ Forth. The poem is published in 'The Last Almanac' Yaffle Press 2023.

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Seeding the Solstice

Here, once, there was a storytelling throne
but now the way over the bridge is barred
by ranks of tall tufted grasses, ash and beech
have retreated to stand behind a bleached sky
this wee glen clings fast to their tap roots,
it’s warm in these woods for this time of year,
no snow, nor hoar-laced twigs, not one puddle
wearing a plate of ice, but so spaciously still
between the damp trunks, each gap a stage
in waiting; at the heart of the dell is a pond
that floats the low sun's sinking face within
a frame of moss, fallen leaves, snail shells,
moorhen feather, around which we've come
to scatter our swollen parts like the decaying
galaxies of crab apples to let both sourness
and sweetness season the soil from which
we hope to grow with each lengthening day.

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released December 18, 2022

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Project Lono Middlesbrough, UK

Project Lono is a collaborative collective of musicians and poets experimenting with audio scapes that blend verse, storytelling, song, music and live and recorded sound effects.

The Shrouded Republic has been created by Bob Beagrie, Sara Dennis, Kev Howard, Peter Lagan, John Dunleavy and SJ Forth.

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