Original text by Py Bäckman

Ahimsa is Sanskrit and means "non-violence"

Self-image training – self-respect

For soprano and women's choir

Elegi urGustav II Adolf

I det vitt ofyllda unison/SA/SAB/SATB + flöjt Original text by Py BäckmanLotta Lotas' New Poems is a suite of 36 verses, all in the same rhythmic form of six lines. Next to the verses in Lotas' poetry collection are pictures of elephants in captivity. Black and white images from what appear to be circuses at the beginning of the 20th century in the USA. The heavy sadness the little elephant eyes radiate in this pitiful prison! The verses begin with an unfinished conditional, "Could I," but are never followed by the