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Grandmother Tree

from I Remember Love by Mama Gina

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Grandmother Tree
Written by Mama Gina at Summerland / Yule Like It 12/2012

Grandmother stands with her daughters - some of them fallen and some of them true
Depends on the rain and the sunlight that flows - if her footsteps take ten years or two
She walks and she reaches – her roots and her limbs embracing the weak on the way
She journeys from center – oh, outward she spins – she travels and ever she stays

She was born of her mother who fell in a storm of fire that crackled with light
An orphan, she reached for the roots of her kin and slumbered a long winter’s night
She drank in their mem’ries, she swallowed their bones and awoke in the spring to the Sun
Oh, the light that can kill you can also bring hope, and a grandmother she would become

Call her goddess
Call her ancient one
The woman who walks in the wood
She is crone of the grove
Leaf, root and limb
She still stands wherever she stood

She spider, the beetle, the burrowing folk – the coon and the doe and the bear
They leave their mark, she erases in time as if they never were there
The cricket, the frog, the falcon, the wren raise their Voice in continuous ohm
Their lives all too short for her to attend, yet Grandmother Tree is their home

Call her goddess
Call her ancient one
The woman who walks in the wood
She is crone of the grove
Leaf, root and limb
She still stands wherever she stood

Now the path has been paved and the travelers it brings mark their progress in seconds, not years
But their roots will not hold through the aeons, she knows, and Grandmother’s shedding no tears
Oh, they may revere her or stand at her guard; they may wield the blade that hastens her fall
She slumbers and sings a green lullaby soft to the child at her heart who will outlive them all

Call her goddess
Call her ancient one
The woman who walks in the wood
She is crone of the grove
Leaf, root and limb
She still stands wherever she stood

© G. LaMonte 12/2012

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from I Remember Love, released September 15, 2015

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Award winning singer/songwriter & wanderlust ... fearless story-telling ... bluesy vocals ... humor ... straight-ahead, rhythmic, 12 string acoustic guitar ... djembe ... frame drums ... all weft and warp of the soul of this bard

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