Music of Kantele©
by Leona M. House

Double Kantele Image

Meant to cheer
isolated people
in cold sunless
lands.
I have walked
those
lands
in days
with every
pang of
heart ache
and
isolation
they felt!

Stone faces
ice walls
humorless
tribes
roaming through
lands rising
from the burden
of tons of
frozen ice
Struggling up
to greet the
warming sun
Sisu is their
soul
to carry
through
with plans
to populate,
well they did
I'm here.

Double Kantele Image

Kantele© published in New World Finn, June, 2002

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