Tuesday, August 4, 2015

One City – One Heart: Talent and Heart Combined to Create An Outstanding Event! (in the aftermath of the slaughter at Mother Emanuel)

ONE RACE, THE HUMAN RACE, WE ARE ALL ONE PEOPLE
Some excellent community building/education came from this event, Lorna Gethers Coakley is an especially talented performer. She is in the middle, at the left is her partner, Dmitri. I am peeking out to the left of him, behind the brilliant poet Marcus Amaker, who led the event. Lorna and Dmitri are the ones I met on the Bridge to Unity and Bridge to Peace Unity Chain for Emanuel AME Church chanting ONE RACE, THE HUMAN RACE, WE ARE ALL ONE PEOPLE. We taught that to this wonderful group of poets, writers, and performers. Plus she performed a couple of powerful passionate poems in a dramatic way. I consider that the conclusion afterwards was how important communication and education are as a solution to racial divisions!
One City – One Heart took place on Saturday, August 1, 2015 at Circular Church and was attended by over a dozen local writers and poets who came together to write and read and talk about community in the aftermath of the slaughter at Mother Emanuel…
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Many of the group will be sharing their words on LILA’s pages in the upcoming months… To kick that off, we heartily thank Cerantha Corley for her poem, “The Nine” below. Cerantha is a Native American Style Flute player, Reiki Master, Shaman, writer and painter. Learn more about her at http://cerantha.com/.

Our sincere thanks to all who attended what we now know will be the first of many such special events to foster communication through creativity in our community…

The Nine

by Cerantha Corley, Copyright 6/2015

They will be remembered
In times that follow
Written on the winds of history
The nine

Whose lives mattered before
Whose lives matter now
As guideposts to the new world
The nine

In V-shaped formation
Exiting on wings toward tomorrow
They followed their hearts
The nine

Out of misguided hate bullets
As angels sang to show the Way
Love rose that night from the Holy City
The nine

The Alpha and Omega
Left us new
Left us whole
Left us free

The blessed nine.

Website crafted with love by Marcus Amaker
Flute music for relaxation, massage, reiki, and yoga by Cerantha.
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