Prayer of the World
Poetry by Kathleen Maia Tapp
Photography by Ken Tapp
Song of the Web original music by Gloria Stearns-Bruner
Song of the Web video editing by Kris Tapp
Rainbow Prayer original song by Ken Jacobsen
Meet the artists
Kathleen Maia Tapp's poems have appeared in journals, magazines and anthologies, including Wisconsin Academy Review, Orion, Friends Journal, Cricket, and many others. She is the author of many novels for children.
Ken Tapp is an award winning nature photographer whose work has appeared in Birds and Blooms, Wisconsin Wetlands publications, Cricket, and many other publications.
Together Maia and Ken travel as pilgrims, listening, writing and taking photographs at many sites -- from the arctic tundra, Everglades, and Smoky Mountains, to the Grand Canyon, Kilauea volcano and the glaciers of Alaska—and beyond.
Gloria Stearns-Bruner is a Quaker violinist, composer, and music therapist who creates improvisations to share the beauty and mystery of Spirit as it weaves in our personal journeys and in the world. She offers interactive programs from retreats to rallies to promote spiritual deepening and healing as well as collaborating with other artists in Spirit-led works. (www.gloriasmusic.com)
Kris Tapp a visual designer, merging the poetry, images and music into videos.
Ken Jacobsen is a folk musician, joining poetry to music to create the Rainbow Prayer Song.
The poetry, images and music from these artists bring us
Prayer of the World
the voice of stone, sea, sky, earth calling to us:
Awaken
Join the song--
the ongoing prayer of life and breath
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" All is connected in a living breathing web
and I am the web
the living pulse of energy
that flows through all creation
each pulse a prayer"
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