Name: Isa
Duration: P00H02M09S
Description: Isa is the frozen, still ice of deep winter. It is the state of motionless, of being stuck - but only temporarily, for winter ice melts into the spring waters that feed all growing things. I wrote this in galdr form, a Norse poem with a certain number of lines and syllables, years ago for a class I attended and it needed only a bit of arranging to become whole and alive.

Isa

from Rune Songs Volume 1 by Cathy McManamon

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Isa is the frozen, still ice of deep winter. It is the state of motionless, of being stuck - but only temporarily, for winter ice melts into the spring waters that feed all growing things. I wrote this in galdr form, a Norse poem with a certain number of lines and syllables, years ago for a class I attended and it needed only a bit of arranging to become whole and alive.

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Green and growing, living
Blanketed beneath snow
Waiting, wanting, watching
For springtime's warming glow
Ice will turn to water
Sacred source, earth's lifeblood
Flow again to free the life here.

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from Rune Songs Volume 1, released February 1, 2019
Lyrics & music by Cathy McManamon
Vocals - Cathy McManamon

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Cathy McManamon Chicago, Illinois

Cathy is a singer/songwriter/guitarist/drummer in Chicago who occasionally performs solo, but more often in the Pegasus Award-winning duo Random Fractions (with Jason Neerenberg. She is the former drummer for the filk rock band Toyboat.

Cathy is also a studio musician and arranger for Canticles Productions & Dreamflight Theatrical Gymnastics, a drum circle facilitator, and a guitar teacher. ... more

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