The Kettle

Where the mountain dips, in a place called the Kettle, is where you first can spot the rain. When I was young, I used to think that the rain started there, up from the springs that filled our reservoirs, into the clouds that gathered in the alcove.

We rarely went to the mountain - it was a place filled with rattlesnakes and bears. The lowlands, wet and unpredictable, could swallow you before you even knew that you stepped into a quagmire. Whether this is true, is still yet to be discovered.

As children, we kept to the fields and picked the berries that grew wild in the fence rows. It has always been the wild lands that have called to me and the wild spaces that border the cultivated fields, that have interested me the most.

 

Listen

Magnolias

This morning

I went out to find peace

I found magnolias 

I found the moon

More Poetry Selections

  • What does it mean to be human?

    What does it mean to sing?

    I pick up a match 

    And light the kindling -

    Straw, dried grass, small pieces of wood

    When the first flames come it is difficult to look away.

    My eyes are happy to watch the flames dance

    There was a time that we danced.

    I hear the footsteps

    The footsteps following the drum

    The drum from the hide of an animal, of wildness

    With wildness

    Beckon in the wildness

    What does it mean to be human?

    Does it mean that we sing?

    but, yes, the birds, the wolves, the whales

    All singing with us

    I close my eyes, I feel the warmth of the fire

    I hear the beat of the drum, I open my mouth

    And I release a sound that feels like a song I sang yesterday

    A yesterday when words were 

    spoken, 

    sung,

    carved in stone.

    The cycle of it all

    The cycle of it all

    I am here now

    So are you

    And isn’t it beautiful to be here together.

    I am here now

    So are you

    Let’s sing

    Sing the songs that we once knew.

  • Morning. 

    Crow calls.

    Listen longer. 

    Hear the songbirds.

    It is you I dream of.

    When will the last of the rains fall?

    The birds, 

    they must build their nests,

    sing their calls.

    Things take time.

    If we give peace,

    we will have peace.

    If we give love,

    we will get love.

    If we spread happiness...

    Sometimes, 

    it is difficult.

    To place one foot in front of the other,

    and to remember:

    No matter the destruction,

    There will always be 

    someone, somewhere

    who has planted flowers.

  • This world is not 

    made of straight lines 

    and stillness.

    Do you notice 

    the water as it moves 

    in and out carving the shore?

    I stand

    breathing.

    The rose hips have dried, 

    but still hang 

    from the bush limbs.

    I try not to step 

    on the jellyfish,

    for their sake.

 

About Kendy

Kendy Gable is an interdisciplinary musical artist who interweaves poetry, stories, and melodies. Her work expands beyond the stage, encompassing ceremony, projects and interactive experiences. She believes that music, even though an ethereal art, has the capacity to create space and to hold listeners and the musicians themselves. She is a performing artist, writer, and teacher with a deep interest in the interconnection of humanity and our relationship to the immediate environment in which we live and the natural world that sustains us.

 
 
 

Projects

Vocal Weaving

Deep listening and weaving your voice within nature’s orchestra to connect to your humanity, community and the more than human earth. The workshop culminates in a collective sound improvisation and one breath meditation.

 

Open Voice Berlin

A holistic vocal studio working with voices of all experiences in-person throughout Europe and online. Nourishing, connective and empowering workshops, courses, seminars and retreats.

 

  • 2019 NOTABLE PERFORMANCES

    Spazio Tondelli - Riccione, IT 22.04.2019

    2018 NOTABLE PERFORMANCES

    Altmünsterkirche (with Claudio Donzelli) - Mainz, DE 09.03.2018

    Melodica Festival - Köln, DE 18.03.2018

    Tonfink - Lübeck, DE 19.03.2018

    Obenair Festival - Marienberg, DE - 20.05.2018

    Body & Soul Festival - Westmeath, Ireland - 23.06.2018

    Latitude Festival - Southwold, UK - 13.07.2018

    Liedersfestival Thomsdorf - Carwitzer See, DE - 26.07.2018

    Klaviernacht + - Dresden, DE - 

    Lollapalooza Berlin - Berlin, DE - 08.09.2018

    2017 NOTABLE PERFORMANCES

    New World Stages (with Lard Dog and the Band of Shy) - New York, NY - 08.01.2017

    Melodica Festival Paris - Paris, FR - 28.01.2017

    Schlosskeller - Darmstadt, DE - 14.02.2017

    Postcrypt Coffeehouse - New York, NY - 03.03.2017

    People’s Improv Theater (with Lard Dog and the Band of Shy) - New York, NY - 04.03.2017

    People’s Improv Theater (with Lard Dog and the Band of Shy) - New York, NY - 11.03.2017

    People’s Improv Theater (with Lard Dog and the Band of Shy) - New York, NY - 18.03.2017

    Pete’s Candy Store - New York, NY - 10.03.2017

    Hamburg Küchensession - Hamburg, DE - 17.03.2017

    Prachtwerk - Berlin, DE - 08.07.2017

    Schlossgarten - Darmstadt, DE - 27.06.2017

    Tonfink - Lübeck, DE - 04.07.2017

    Wanderlust Festival Köln - Köln, DE 13.08.2017

    Wanderlust Festival Vienna - Vienna, Austria - 20.08.2017

    MUZclub (Dear Reader Support Show) - Nürnberg, DE - 04.10.2017

    Kulturzentrum Franz K. (Dear Reader Support Show) - Reutlingen, DE - 07.10.2017

    Beatpol (Dear Reader Support Show) - Dresden, DE - 22.10.2017

    Bahnhof Langendreer (Dear Reader Support Show) - Bochum, DE - 23.10.2017

    Prachtwerk - Berlin, DE - 24.10.2017

    Badehaus Szimpla - Berlin, DE - 08.12.2017

  • Cornell University, Communication, B.S., Concentration Theatre Arts, May 2006

    Melbourne University, Creative Writing, Graduate Diploma, November 2008

    Academy of Sacred Music, Classical Vocal Training, James White (Penn State University)

    Liminal Theatre, Actors Intensive Workshop, Mary Siterenos (Artistic Director) 2008-2009

 
 
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