Poetry & Music Collaboration
“Delighting in Rainbows”
I sleep in clouds of morning
where the fist of dark waters
holds my slumbering
immortality
known to the eye of the palm
waiting for Light and the open hand of rainfall
I lie soft as a dawn seed
born into the stillness of this opulent pool
filling me diffusing me
until the moment Shines in a raindrop
The voice that has shaped me
wakens me with LIGHT
and I am glad to be small, a particle of this, where my face is JOY
coloured with infinitude
I am changed, become miracle
and in the company of Rainbows find my final transformation
© marion fawlk
The poem ‘Delighting in Rainbows’ was inspired whilst walking in Cumbria, when the darkness of storm became messenger of Light. It was a moment in time when the inner and outer worlds meet, when the impulse of soul recognises a divine metaphor. The gathering of rainbows over Coniston Water was for me, a powerful image of inner transformation, expressing the sacred mysteries of the ‘hidden journey’. Marion Fawlk
Artist, photographer and poet Marion Fawlk has a longstanding relationship with the sacred nature of words, image and light. She has given readings throughout the uK in venues that include The Teilhard Sacred Centre, London, Rochester Festival of Literature and St. James, Piccadilly, London and has shared performances with international poets Sir George Trevelyan, Laurie Lee and Jay Ramsay. Her poems are published in an anthology of sacred poetry: ‘Earth Ascending’ (edited by Jay Ramsay, published by Stride UK), and ‘Mysterium’, a full collection of her poetry, is recently published in the UK by PhotoStroud and Chrysalis Poetry (2009)
For further information please email music@charasound.com
POETRY & MUSIC
‘Delighting in Rainbows’ is set to music by Rosemary Duxbury for soprano, piano, flute and cello.
It has been performed at various venues. The UK premiere was given at the University of Leicester in 1991 by Julie Moffat - soprano, Marlene Fleet - piano, Sharon Kinder - cello, Alison Wright - flute. Its London premiere took place in 1994 at the church of St.Martin-in-the-Fields, Trafalgar Square (performed by Nicola Jane Kemp- soprano, David Wickham - piano, Shirley Smart - cello, Alison Hayhurst -flute.
POETRY & MUSIC & DANCE
The collaboration process was taken a step further with the composition of a new dance piece choreographed by Cathryn Ravenhall with Ginni Robbins and Shepshed High Youth dancers in 1994, which was performed at Rawlins Art Forum, Quorn, Leicestershire as part of a Charnwood Arts event:’Into the Light’.
