Joan McMillen - From the Dark, For the Dark: Songs for the Winter Solstice

From the Dark, For the Dark: Songs for the Winter Solstice and other Dark Times

FIRST MEDLEY
Deepening the Silence
Welcome this Night
Come Down into the Darkness
What I Need to See

SECOND MEDLEY
Mother Earth, Claim Me
Mother, Carry Me
O Weaver, O Weaving

THIRD MEDLEY
How Can I Be With You This Day?
Where We Stand is Holy
We All Come From a Flower
Rose (round)

For piano and solo voice

These songs came out of and are intended to honor the dark time of the year. They were first sung as part of a community Winter Solstice celebration called Brooding the World.

A few of these songs are specific to the darkness of winter:

"Deepening the silence, thickening the bark.
I sink into the darkness of Winter,
dreaming of what will be reborn come Spring..."

- adapted from a poem by Rose Leiter

But many of them can speak to other dark times, as well. They are meditations for times when our own light goes out and we are unable to see our way ahead:

"Come down into the darkness,
let the one you long to be be born...

What I need to see will come before my eyes.
What I need to hear will soon enter my ears.
What I need to make will rise under my hands.
I am not alone, and I am not forgotten..."

©1996 - 1998 Joan McMillen
jmm@windingway.com


			FIRST MEDLEY Deepening the Silence Welcome this Night Come Down into the Darkness What I Need to See SECOND MEDLEY Mother Earth, Claim Me Mother, Carry Me O Weaver, O Weaving THIRD MEDLEY How Can I Be With You This Day? Where We Stand is Holy We All Come From a Flower Rose (round)		For piano and solo voice These songs came out of and are intended to honor the dark time of the year. They were first sung as part of a community Winter Solstice celebration called Brooding the World. A few of these songs are specific to the darkness of winter: "Deepening the silence, thickening the bark. I sink into the darkness of Winter, dreaming of what will be reborn come Spring..." - adapted from a poem by Rose Leiter But many of them can speak to other dark times, as well. They are meditations for times when our own light goes out and we are unable to see our way ahead: "Come down into the darkness, let the one you long to be be born... What I need to see will come before my eyes. What I need to hear will soon enter my ears. What I need to make will rise under my hands. I am not alone, and I am not forgotten..."

					©1996 - 1998 Joan McMillen jmm@windingway.com