The Women Gathered

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Description

A brief example of recorded poetry.

Vocal Characteristics

Language

English

Voice Age

Middle Aged (35-54)

Accents

North American (General) North American (US General American - GenAM)

Transcript

Note: Transcripts are generated using speech recognition software and may contain errors.
the women gathered first in tentative scattering things, then inquisitive groups, and so word spread as a pebble tossed into the waters of revolution. Then the women came and confident collectives they knew the knowledge must be shared, spilled from tongue speaking, ageless wisdom, treasured whispers, riding along currents of change they shared because they understood the consequences of not their silence would mean defeat, suffering, possibly death. So they spoke to each other of what they learned from their mothers and their mother's mother. They told the histories of generations. Their hands wove tethers to their ancestors as feet to stump rhythms of the ancients and their voices saying of creation. They dug into soil that contained the breath of their beginning and planted the seeds of their future.