This is the morning that will rise,
to the sun in every eye,
to the ancient apple tree
and the cycles of the moon.
The effervescent honey bee
tells us to begin again and again.
Staring into the embers,
we grieve and dream,
stir the ashes of our lives.
Through the air we come to see
many things hidden and now are freed.
A new rain falls on our myths and stories
as we return to the beginning of what we know.
The sound has stopped.
The heart has not.
The stillness frees the mind.
Time for action!
Time for unrest,
and for rest.
For rest is needed in a forest.
The trees grow when their roots are deep.
Buried inside trees, hearts tremble
at something forgotten,
something lost in the shoots.
Rain comes down and it is enough
For trees to grow young again.
This is the morning that will rise,
to the sun in every eye,
to the ancient apple tree
and the cycles of the moon.
The effervescent honey bee
tells us to begin again, and again.
This is the morning. We start again.
This is the morning to start again!
By Joanne Weber and Paula Weber
Dr. Joanne Weber is a Deaf bimodal bilingual (American Sign Language and English) artist. Her credits include poetry, Pear Orchard (2007), theatrical plays, Firebird and Deaf Settlers, (in progress), collaborative film script, Fable Deaf (2022), and creative non-fiction, Deaf House (2013). She is also the artistic director of Deaf Crows Collective, a Deaf professional theatre and arts company in Regina, Saskatchewan. She supports Deaf and hearing professionals in furthering their artistic creations. She divides her time between Edmonton where she is a Canada Research Chair in Deaf education and assistant professor at the University of Alberta and Regina where her family reside.
Paula Weber graduated from the University of Regina in 2013 with a Bachelor of Music degree where she studied voice with Lynn Channing. She completed her Master of Fine arts program, in music and creative technologies in 2018 and her bachelor of education in 2020. Paula has had a private vocal studio for over ten years and is currently instructing at the University of Regina Conservatory of performing arts. Paula has written music in collaboration with re:Naissance Opera in Vancouver, where she conducted her work at the Queer Arts Festival in 2019. Paula lives and works in Regina as an educator, musician, and artist.