by Cori Martin
Mother
Language: English
Daughter of three mothers mother of two daughters, her body bore and fed us. We feasted on her teaching. Her blood was in us beating, flowing like a river that brought us to ourselves.
Text Authorship:
- by Cori Martin , written 2022 [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Stephanie Martin (b. 1962), "Mother", 2022 [ satb chorus and piano ], CMC
Publisher: CMC [external link] [sung text checked 1 time]
Researcher for this page: Joost van der Linden [Guest Editor]
This text was added to the website: 2026-05-28
Line count: 7
Word count: 34