{"id":5063180,"date":"2024-11-01T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-11-01T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/calatinonews.com\/?p=5063180"},"modified":"2024-11-01T08:00:00","modified_gmt":"2024-11-01T08:00:00","slug":"annual-poets-murmuration-calls-for-balance-of-earth-and-humanity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/latinonewsnetwork.com\/caln\/2024\/11\/01\/annual-poets-murmuration-calls-for-balance-of-earth-and-humanity\/","title":{"rendered":"Annual Poet\u2019s Murmuration Calls for Balance of Earth and Humanity"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

As a genocide in the Middle East<\/a> rages on, hurricanes wipe out entire towns<\/a>, and the planet continues to reach boiling temperatures<\/a>, Rosa De Anda said she was \u201cwilling to try anything\u201d to unite people to pray for \u201cbalance.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cOur planet is dying, so desperately dying, and so we are at it at an urgent moment,\u201d the 69-year-old Mexican artist and founder of the Marigold Project<\/a> said. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

These circumstances led the Marigold Project team to host the third annual Poet\u2019s Murmuration<\/a> at San Francisco\u2019s Exploratorium Museum<\/a> on Oct. 24, a few days before Dia de los Muertos, a Mexican Indigenous holiday honoring the symbiotic relationship between life and death. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

A murmuration<\/a> is the sound of one or more people talking quietly. De Anda said she wanted to emulate this noise to \u201cintensify\u201d the prayer for Earth’s rebalance. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe way this came to me was, I was brought up a Catholic. I went to Mass every Sunday. When everybody prayed, everybody prayed with different voices,\u201d De Anda said. \u201cLet’s say that \u2018Our father\u2019 started, then other people started it just slightly at a different point. And so it just became a murmuration of the \u2018Our Father\u2019 and that thought, that kind of elevated group prayer, stuck.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Vibrant <\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Community members and poets gathered in a circle inside of San Francisco’s Exploratorium Museum on Oct. 24, 2024. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Photo: <\/strong>Jacqueline Cardenas<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Vibrant <\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Flowers arranged at the center of the Exploratorium Museum’s galler<\/em>y where the Poet’s Murmuration was held.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Photo: <\/strong>Jacqueline Cardenas<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Around 300 people attended the murmuration, and 75 poets were tasked with reciting a poem about any of the five elements: earth, fire, air, water, or love.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Danielle Revives, an altarist and The Marigold Project\u2019s RAICES Fellow, said the goal of the murmuration was to remind people of the element’s importance. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI hope people not only find the whirl of words beautiful and interesting and captivating, but they are inspired to be like, \u2018Oh, maybe we should care about the Earth. Maybe we should think about the most valuable resource in which a lot of the world does not have access to: water,\u201d Revives said. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Poetry also has the ability to \u201cencompass every feeling that you can have as a human,\u201d Revives added. \u201cPoetry is something that can stand the test of time. It is something that can be published. It is something that can be recorded. It is something that can be sung. It is something that can be felt<\/em>.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Esperanza Cabrales, a 24-year-old Chicanx artist with Bay Area Creative, was among the people who recited a poem about water, though she connected it to Mother Nature\u2019s ocean.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Right before Cabrales stepped up to the mic, Christine Joy, one of the \u201cgoddess\u201d dancers facilitating the murmuration, played the ocean drum, a percussion instrument that creates sounds similar to rolling ocean waves. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve forgotten that the sea screams,\u201d Cabrales read aloud to a crowd of people. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"CALN <\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Esperanza Cabrales, 24, recited a poem inspired by the ocean at the 3rd annual Poet’s Murmuration. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Photo: <\/strong>Jacqueline Cardenas<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After the murmuration, Cabrales reflected on how she felt hearing the ocean drum, telling California Latino News that it \u201creally added to my ability to \u2026 channel the rhythm that I was hoping to channel.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was Cabrales\u2019 first time performing at the Exploratorium, though she said her perception of death had especially \u201ctaken on a new meaning\u201d after leaving the Catholic church. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cBefore, there was a lot of fear involved with it. Now I think of it in terms of, like, it’s gonna sound weird, but I’ve taken science and made it spiritual,\u201d she said, referencing the law of conservation of energy, which proves energy can neither be created nor destroyed, it can only be transformed from one state to another. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe have all existed in equal measure, in some way or another, and the memories of our loved ones still exist within the world because they exist within us,\u201d she said. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cabrales\u2019s uncle passed away when she was 15, though his experience working as a florist is one that continues to live through her, she said. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI think of him whenever I see flowers, whenever I work with flowers. there is death in my hands as we speak,\u201d Cabrales said, holding onto fluorescent orange marigolds. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rosa De Anda said she hoped every attendee had a \u201cspiritual experience\u201d regardless of their religion. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI just want them to take away that they are valuable, that we are all special,\u201d De Anda said. \u201cThat the power is in the love, because even in science, if there\u2019s no attraction, if there\u2019s no love, nothing happens.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The event was meant to bring people together to poetize and pray \u201cfor the balance of our out of control ecology,\u201d Rosa De Anda, founder of The Marigold Project, said. 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