Weekly Poems #29 –

"The Song" by Michelle Brown

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Sunday, February 15th, 2026

Weekly Poems #29 –

Winner: Weekly Poems Contest #29

The Song

by Michelle Brown

I am the song called by the bard
I am the storyteller
...singing the songs of history.

I am the teacher, becoming a poet.
Tracing my heritage back to Ierne.
I am the explorer of the women's stories, 
mirrors of the men, holding them up 
...lost to time.

This is the dindsenchas that unfurls in the 
clay loam of the soil.

My song is filled with saithen –
The exhale, felt when my 
soles root themselves in the earth. 

This is the Anam Cara – the soul friend,
the land of the Turrbal that yearns to be seen,
the witnesses who yearn for their histories to be heard
this is the harmony to come, the 
circles of the women who hold up their peoples.

Notes: 
Ierne – Greek for Ireland. 
dindsenchas – the lore or the story of places that matter.
saithen – soul breath in coming home.
Anam Cara – soul friend.
Turrbal – Traditional owners on the land upon which I live. 

Biography of the Poet
Michelle Brown is a writer living on Turrbal land in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. She is a history teacher and has been fascinated with how the songlines of her history intertwine with those of the land she has the pleasure to live on.

Keywords: storyteller, teacher, women, Turrbal, witnesses

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"At the Edge" by Zahir Turaj

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