Teach Me The Dark

Poetry by Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer
Music by Steve Law
Art by Marisa S. White, "I Can Drink You Down"
Video by Tony Jeannette
This is the first track on DARK PRAISE, a spoken-word album that honors the dark and how it opens us to creativity, passion, intimacy, revelation, dreaming, receptivity, self-discovery and connection. "Teach Me the Dark" is available for download on Spotify, iTunes, and more. The album is available for purchase on Band Camp, rosemerrywahto...
Teach Me the Dark
Teach me the dark, the infinite
shades of the infinite dark, the basis of all
the light that is, the origin, the ink bright spark
that leaps from the great black well,
the darkling spring, the raven luck, the mother
from which the big bang sprang, the womb
of dawn, the only cloak measureless enough
to hold everything, everything in its folds.
Teach me the inner midnight,
the moonless rooms, the lavish corners,
the mighty dark inside the fist, the vastness
of limitless space that links
with no effort the everything that is,
the everything that ever was, the everything
that will ever be. Teach me the song of soil,
the song of deep winter, the pure dark song
of the sea. All the dark that’s been terrorized
by light, and all the dark that’s been pushed away
and all the dark that’s been feared,
teach me its valor, its ferocity, its kindness,
its gentleness, its blinding generosity.
--Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer

[@KristinPedemonti]

Thank you Rosemerry
Your voice is as sublime as your words.
And oh so poignantly you describe the layers of learning possible when we allow the dark to teach us. ❤

[@rosemerryt]

all those layers of learning ... thank you Kristin, for your words!!

[@JulieWahtola]

Yes! Bravo! Eagerly awaiting the rest!

[@rosemerryt]

thank you, Mom--you are the best. I am so grateful for your encouragement and love.

[@cyndinelson650]

Thanks to you three for this tender gift...

[@rosemerryt]

thank you, Cyndi!

[@Franimally]

Love this, Rosemerry!

[@rosemerryt]

Thank you, dear Fran ❤

[@SmithBrookHollow]

Beautiful!!

[@rosemerryt]

thank you, Isabelle!

[@DebChappell-u4i]

Beautiful! ❤

[@rosemerryt]

Thank you, Deb!

[@ingridgoffmaidoff5230]

What a beautiful gift this is

[@rosemerryt]

Thank you, Ingrid, beautiful poet ❤

[@macaquita007]

Gorgeous ❤

[@rosemerryt]

Thank you, Patrícia ❤

[@tmwest54]

So beautiful, Rosemerry! I love the synergy between words, voice, music, image, and font! You offer such rich metaphors for the dark. I've been thinking a lot lately about the dark as the womb for light and life in connection with the first creation account in Genesis 1. You've deepened those reflections considerably here-thank you! ❤

[@rosemerryt]

Thank you, Travis! There it is--such a beautiful framing, the dark as the womb for light--thank you for watching!

[@darioconversano9451]

I loved this poem from the first moment I heard it, sublime masterpiece

[@rosemerryt]

Thank you, Dario! Thank you!

[@kayceejoubert9248]

What a unique and gorgeous art !!! LOVE LOVE LOVE

[@rosemerryt]

thank you sistah---such big love to you