We’ve updated our Terms of Use to reflect our new entity name and address. You can review the changes here.
We’ve updated our Terms of Use. You can review the changes here.

Susanna Moodie at Rest - SPOKEN

from CANADADA: TAKE TWO by M.L.Holton - Canadian Poet

/

  • Collector's Edition CD: 35 Spoken Word & Musical Tracks by Canadian Artist, M.L.Holton.
    Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album

    Spoken words of potent poetry by Canadian artist, M.L.Holton, parallels the narrative nuances of her personalized music.
    A unique SOUND CELEBRATION of Canadiana.
    Slimcase CD with 4 colour panel insert.

    Includes unlimited streaming of CANADADA: TAKE TWO via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.

    Sold Out

  • Streaming + Download

    Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
    Purchasable with gift card

      $1 CAD  or more

     

  • Buy the Full Digital Album

about

An early genteel pioneer, Susanna Moodie, wrote of her early years in Canada. Fast forward to 2017, what would she think? ... I wonder.

lyrics

Susanna Moody at Rest

sitting beside this burning brick fire
I try to remember
my long long day
and all I can remember are
those noxious cars on that infernal highway and
that long messy smudge line of smog

I listen to Sibelius to regain Health & Balance

soon that musical genius of hot and cold love
whips up white caps of excitement that
slap me - wide awake
my, that man can ride those wild colts of emotion
like a rampaging red-blooded Roman
or a prancing patrician Olympian

(Did I suggest greco-roman? how politically outdated of me … )

I mean, of course, my old fire friend, he rides
those full bodied notes like a long-limbed prairie cowboy
free, fearless and far-ranging …
(But, to be sure, he ain’t no hacky lacky, no,
not this controlling Master
with a firm four-in-hand … galloping … )

Revived, I wonder, Is Meritocracy just Imperial Democracy?

I see history in these burning flames
sitting by this hot brick hearth

O’Canada, my old home and crumbling native land
where potent pines and aging oaks once graced this fine fair place
when meadow music-making was once as natural as breathing
when perfect split rail fences and symmetrical log cabins
were once born from our graceful hard-working slow body rhythms
What will become of thee?

I wonder

credits

from CANADADA: TAKE TWO, released March 15, 2017
M.L.Holton - Poetry & Voice

license

all rights reserved

tags

about

MLHolton image

MLHolton Ontario

Self-taught, award-winning, senior artist, author & filmmaker from the Golden Horseshoe Region of Southern Ontario, Canadada.... In sum, a devoted advocate of 'Serious Fun'.

contact / help

Contact MLHolton

Streaming and
Download help

Shipping and returns

Redeem code

Report this track or account

If you like MLHolton, you may also like:

Bandcamp Daily  your guide to the world of Bandcamp

On Bandcamp Radio

Fabiana Palladino stops by to talk about her mesmeric debut LP.
listen now