Nine Words Poem by Lynn Anne Brown

Three sacred songs the poet knows
One for Sorrow, One for Joy, One for Rest.
Each song three cords it braids
Into still another song or three
Until their textures
Are being woven
Into Tapestry
Nine Notes
Now I am given
To touch up

And each begins
A different Journey
Takes me a different
Place or so

Nine Sacred Words
are born again
each time
we get
Together

When we the Sacred
Join together
We are Strong

We bring back into the Words
That needs remembering
To Soothe
To Celebrate
To Sleep

They are the voice
Of that
Which we cannot always see
But want to still remember

What makes us sad
What makes us happy
What helps us sleep

And set out
To try to understand it all.....