"A Song For Rising" by Edgar Bowers

"A Song For Rising" by Edgar Bowers Published September 19th, 2022 Some of the topics covered in this episode include: -What verse is -What this thing that we call meter is -Poetry is like crack -Why make time to rhyme? -Edgar Bowers, perfect man of arts and letters -I know I am, but what are you? -Pantheism! -Psych, no pantheism. -Confronting existence between the voids of birth and death -Waking up is a weird thing that happens The text of today's poem: A Song For RisingMy life is mine to have well or to lose.I struggle to conceive, not who I am, but, in the constant end that I must choose, the being that permits me to its sum. Even by that attempt I must profanethe certain no pretense of mine can change, from which each hopeful lie departs in vain. I am the brief departure lies derange. So here I am at last, and you are there, the same as you have always been,the true, the final and the necessary care. All that I am and hope to be is you. But why you are or why I am or why I think to ask I will no longer guess.The manifest dilemma that was I confronted you between its nothingness. Please rate, review, and subscribe, or recommend the show to a friend! Art by David Anthony Klug Support the showVISIT MY WEBSITE HERE.BUY VERSECRAFT MERCH HERE.VISIT THE VERSECRAFT SUBSTACK HERE.Please subscribe, rate, and review! Thanks so much for listening.You can leave me a tip, support the podcast, or request a commission here! TikTok:  @versecraftSend me a note at: [email protected] favorite poetry podcasts for: Sharp thoughts and cutting truths (Matthew): Sleerickets  Lovely introspection and sensitive reflection (Alice): Poetry Says The landscape of Ohioan poetry (Jeremy): Poetry Spotlight  Supported in part by The Ohio Poetry AssociationArt by David Anthony KlugList of the most common metrical feet: Iamb: weak-STRONG (u /)Trochee: STRONG-weak (/ u)Anapest: weak-weak-STRONG (u u /)Amphibrach: weak-STRONG-weak (u / u)Dactyl: STRONG-weak-weak (/ u u)Cretic: STRONG-weak-STRONG (/ u /)Pyrrhic: weak-weak (u u)Spondee: STRONG-STRONG (/ /)