Prancing with Percussion

Prancing with Percussion -

Dame Norma reflects on a session with musician Brendan Murphy

Balancing with sweet bells ringing

Rhythms catch me up,

take me to another place

and time, beyond or behind.

With gentle insistence

they fill my mind.

I sway slightly as

strange sounds fill the air.

Soon our feet mark the rhythm

voice and drums create,

an eerie, earthy, native noise:

arms whirling, bodies twirling,

skirt swirling, feet stamping

to the thrum of the drum

resonating; filling the space