Tag: audio poetry

• “I Wondered if I Had Been a Bird”

  

  featured photo is a painting by Franz Marc, “Birds” (1914) I Wondered if I Had Been a Bird by Jade Nicole Beals for May Ziadeh (b. 1886 – 1941) I was very disturbed when what I’d found logical what could explain all this is that I could’ve been a bird before this. A canary, your […]

  04/07/2022 8:32 pm

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• “A Ghazal for When I’d Known I Shouldn’t Try to Give You The Sun” 

  

  Enjoy my second ghazal poem I wrote, just complete. You can listen to me reading it aloud…and read it on the page. A Ghazal for When I’d Known I Shouldn’t Try to Give You the Sun I am standing far below the sun in gold and I am star-following the best below, all in gold. My skin […]

  03/23/2022 9:31 pm

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• I Adore…

  

  Most recent poet found with random book taken off shelf, Transcendental Studies: A Trilogy by Keith Waldrop fit in perfectly with the ‘Sagittarian Invasion’ artists on the blog recently told of…following Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen (same sign: Austen turned 246 earth yrs on Dec. 16; Waldrop turned 89 on Dec. 11) what I thought… […]

  12/31/2021 9:47 pm

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• A Lord Byron Reading in Nearby Nature and Autumn Air Among Sunlit Trees Still Green

  Let’s enjoy some poetry read aloud on a warm autumnal day. A restorative and peaceful thing for me to do today and to share with you, reading a poem from Lord Byron’s Selected Poems, his most well-known one ”She Walks in Beauty.” Feel free to check out the other audio poems I’ve read of different […]

  10/18/2021 3:22 pm

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• I Heard It

  

  I felt as if Edna might be saying, ‘All this talk of May Ziadeh, and what about me?’ And I forgot about my morning petition until I heard the rain fall and it was answered. I felt these were some good flowing moments to read a poem by Edna St. Vincent Millay (an audio only […]

  06/04/2021 5:08 pm

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