Woven Words

Author: Ester

Poetry is the art of weaving words together to form a tapestry. Welcome one and welcome all to the Woven Words Podcast! Join me (Ester) as I share my love of poetry and discuss the history of poems, poets, and poetic techniques. Please feel free to send me your feedback and suggestions here: https://forms.gle/z66DoHNtWktdJkdJ6
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Episode 7 - The Finch and the Fire
Episode 7
Monday, 31 October, 2022

Happy Halloween! In this episode, I share the history of the spooky holiday through Samhain, the Celtic predecessor to modern-day Halloween. I also read a little poem inspired by Samhain by author Annie Finch. Here it is if you'd like to read along! Samhain by Annie Finch In the season leaves should love, since it gives them leave to move through the wind, towards the ground they were watching while they hung, legend says there is a seam stitching darkness like a name. Now when dying grasses veil earth from the sky in one last pale wave, as autumn dies to bring winter back, and then the spring, we who die ourselves can peel back another kind of veil that hangs among us like thick smoke. Tonight at last I feel it shake. I feel the nights stretching away thousands long behind the days till they reach the darkness where all of me is ancestor. I move my hand and feel a touch move with me, and when I brush my own mind across another, I am with my mother's mother. Sure as footsteps in my waiting self, I find her, and she brings arms that carry answers for me, intimate, a waiting bounty. "Carry me." She leaves this trail through a shudder of the veil, and leaves, like amber where she stays, a gift for her perpetual gaze.