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Cook & Crank: The Cosmic Poetry Podcast
by Simon Pole
The official podcast of Cosmic Poet Simon Pole. Hear a different poem performed each week in the Cosmic Poet's own authentic, expressive voice, with a short commentary for added enjoyment.Simon Pole is the author of six volumes of poetry, including the seven-poem epic cycle The Saga of Terminal City. Known for a distinctive brand of writing called Cosmic Poetry, which scales from the everyday to the spiritual heights beyond, Pole is a graduate of Harvard University, and a descendant of early Canadian poet Susie Drury.He lives in Kingsville, Ontario, on the north shore of Lake Erie.
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Fly Little Bird
Eventually our children have to leave home, and if we’re lucky they’ll remember us as the ones who loved them. A sonnet read by Cosmic Poet Simon Pole. From the Poems For Ocean collection. Website: https://simonpole.ca/ Audio Credits: https://simonpole.ca/pages/audio-credits
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O Cat
O Cat on my lap on the couch, what are you thinking? Explore the cat’s imagination in a poem read by Cosmic Poet Simon Pole. From the Poems For Ocean collection.Website: https://simonpole.ca/ Audio Credits: https://simonpole.ca/pages/audio-credits
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The Married Life
Every family is unhappy in its own way, and the same could be said about marriages. A poem about The Married Life read by Cosmic Poet Simon Pole. From the Poems For Ocean collection.Website: https://simonpole.ca/ Audio Credits: https://simonpole.ca/pages/audio-credits
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Space Dome
Isn’t it everyone’s fantasy to live in a Space Dome, and hear a sonnet about it? A poem read by Cosmic Poet Simon Pole from the Poems For Ocean collection. Website: https://simonpole.ca/ Audio Credits: https://simonpole.ca/pages/audio-credits
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Rags of Time
All things succumb, in the end. And on this we meditate. A poem read by Cosmic Poet Simon Pole from the Poems For Ocean collection.Website: https://simonpole.ca/ Audio Credits: https://simonpole.ca/pages/audio-credits
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The King
King of the bathtub. King of the world. An ode to getting clean read by Cosmic Poet Simon Pole from the Poems For Ocean collection.Website: https://simonpole.ca/ Audio Credits: https://simonpole.ca/pages/audio-credits
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Astro Zombies (1968)
A classic movie. A classic sonnet. Read by Cosmic Poet Simon Pole. From the Poems For Ocean collection.Website: https://simonpole.ca/ Audio Credits: https://simonpole.ca/pages/audio-credits
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Scenes From A War
Images from a war that hit where it hurts. Read by Cosmic Poet Simon Pole, from the Poems For Ocean collection.Website: https://simonpole.ca/ Audio Credits: https://simonpole.ca/pages/audio-credits
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Hymn to Prose
A hymn to the literature of our time, for better or worse. Read by Cosmic Poet Simon Pole, from the Poems For Ocean collection.Website: https://simonpole.ca/ Audio Credits: https://simonpole.ca/pages/audio-credits
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Moral Clarity
A pseudo-sonnet meditation on time’s decay, and love’s possible opposition. From the Poems For Ocean collection, read by Cosmic Poet Simon Pole.Website: https://simonpole.ca/ Audio Credits: https://simonpole.ca/pages/audio-credits
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My Boys
A longer poem about an unconventional squid-like family, originating in the South Seas. Read by Cosmic Poet Simon Pole. From the Poems For Ocean collection.Website: https://simonpole.ca/ Audio Credits: https://simonpole.ca/pages/audio-credits
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The Wicked Tory
Do old Tories ever die? Maybe they just fade away. A poem read by Cosmic Poet Simon Pole. From the Poems For Ocean collection.Website: https://simonpole.ca/ Audio Credits: https://simonpole.ca/pages/audio-credits
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One Among Many
Exclusion is a type of alienation. A poem addressing this terrible state and its origin. From Cosmic Poet Simon Pole and the Poems For Ocean collection.Website: https://simonpole.ca/ Audio Credits: https://simonpole.ca/pages/audio-credits
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Grave Goods
To the grave all things come, but what is good about it? A poem read by Cosmic Poet Simon Pole. From the Poems For Ocean collection.Website: https://simonpole.ca/ Audio Credits: https://simonpole.ca/pages/audio-credits
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The Cartographer's Poem
The poet can and should be a map-maker for forgotten realms. A poem read by Cosmic Poet Simon Pole. From the Poems For Ocean collection.Website: https://simonpole.ca/ Audio Credits: https://simonpole.ca/pages/audio-credits
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Empty Time
No a depressing poem, but a poem about depression. Read by Cosmic Poet Simon Pole. From the Poems For Ocean collection.Website: https://simonpole.ca/ Audio Credits: https://simonpole.ca/pages/audio-credits
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The Wrong-Way Driver
Don't some people always seem to be going the wrong way in life? This sonnet is about them. Read by Cosmic Poet Simon Pole. From the Poems For Ocean collection.Website: https://simonpole.ca/ Audio Credits: https://simonpole.ca/pages/audio-credits
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To The Tetrapod
An ode to that crazy, four-lobbed, evolutionary uncle, The Tetrapod. Read by Cosmic Poet Simon Pole. From the Poems For Ocean collection.Website: https://simonpole.ca/ Audio Credits: https://simonpole.ca/pages/audio-credits
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Do It Yourself
Some advice to the young: Do It Yourself! A poem read by Cosmic Poet Simon Pole. From the Poems For Ocean collection.Website: https://simonpole.ca/ Audio Credits: https://simonpole.ca/pages/audio-credits
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Who Are You?
A sonnet commemorating the return to one's hometown, and the ambivalence thereof. From Cosmic Poet Simon Pole, and the Poems For Ocean collection.Website: https://simonpole.ca/ Audio Credits: https://simonpole.ca/pages/audio-credits
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Magic Sun
Another longer poem about that mysterious force which warms us all, the Magic Sun. What is it? Cosmic Poet Simon Pole reads from the Poems For Ocean collection.Website: https://simonpole.ca/ Audio Credits: https://simonpole.ca/pages/audio-credits
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Dawn of the Dead
An homage to the good old zombie movie, which teaches us many lessons. Read by Cosmic Poet Simon Pole. From the Poems For Ocean collection.Website: https://simonpole.ca/ Audio Credits: https://simonpole.ca/pages/audio-credits
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Safety Vest
An ode to the ubiquitous silver and gold safety vest, in sonnet form. Read by Cosmic Poet Simon Pole. From the Poems For Ocean collection. Website: https://simonpole.ca/ Audio Credits: https://simonpole.ca/pages/audio-credits
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Harald the Hard-Ruler
A viking poem, in the manner of old, about the great king Harald Hardrada. Read by Cosmic Poet Simon Pole. From the Poems For Ocean collection.Website: https://simonpole.ca/ Audio Credits: https://simonpole.ca/pages/audio-credits
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The Pouch
What we ultimately receive from others can be a mystery grab-bag, like a pouch. Poetry read by Cosmic Poet Simon Pole, from the Poems Ocean collection.Website: https://simonpole.ca/ Audio Credits: https://simonpole.ca/pages/audio-credits
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In The Vanguard
Everyone should have a serial killer poem, and we have one today. From the Poems For Ocean collection, read by Cosmic Poet Simon Pole.Website: https://simonpole.ca/ Audio Credits: https://simonpole.ca/pages/audio-credits
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Witch of the Watershed
This longer poem is a study of the witch of old, and the wisdom of the past she conveys. Read by Cosmic Poet Simon Pole, from the Poems For Ocean collection.Website: https://simonpole.ca/ Audio Credits: https://simonpole.ca/pages/audio-credits
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Virus P.O.V.
A unique sonnet addressing life from the virus' point of view. Read by Cosmic Poet Simon Pole, from the Poems For Ocean collection.Website: https://simonpole.ca/ Audio Credits: https://simonpole.ca/pages/audio-credits
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Progress
Progress. A great concept. But what does it mean in regards to War? Cosmic Poet Simon Pole addresses this concern in his latest reading from the Poems For Ocean collection.Website: https://simonpole.ca/ Audio Credits: https://simonpole.ca/pages/audio-credits
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The Big Empty
The Big Empty beckons, a state which Cosmic Poet Simon Pole explores in his latest verses. From the Poems For Ocean collection.Website: https://simonpole.ca/ Audio Credits: https://simonpole.ca/pages/audio-credits
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Late Summer
We celebrate the end of the sunny season in verse, but what is that dark cloud that lies beyond? Poetry read by Simon Pole, the Cosmic Poet. From the Poems For Ocean collection.Website: https://simonpole.ca/ Audio Credits: https://simonpole.ca/pages/audio-credits
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Field of Eyes
A weird town, its weird inhabitants and their weird exports are explored in Cosmic Poet Simon Pole's latest verses. From the Poems For Ocean collection.Website: https://simonpole.ca/ Audio Credits: https://simonpole.ca/pages/audio-credits
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Sheets of Slumber
Some days you just can't get out of bed. Yet, the smallest act of friendship can be just the spark we need. Verses from Cosmic Poet Simon Pole's collection, Poems For Ocean. Website: https://simonpole.ca/ Audio Credits: https://simonpole.ca/pages/audio-credits
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Length of Life
What is the length of a man's life, and by what scale is it measured? Hear Cosmic Poet Simon Pole engage these questions in his latest sonnet. From the Poems For Ocean collection.Website: https://simonpole.ca/ Audio Credits: https://simonpole.ca/pages/audio-credits
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Good Humour
The seasons are powerful forces in our hearts. Cosmic Poet Simon Pole explores Spring and Summer in his latest poem. From the Poems For Ocean collection.Website: https://simonpole.ca/ Audio Credits: https://simonpole.ca/pages/audio-credits
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The Ramones Are Dead
Revisit in verse the life and times of the four bruddahs from Queens. Read by Cosmic Poet Simon Pole. From the Poems For Ocean collection.Website: https://simonpole.ca/ Audio Credits: https://simonpole.ca/pages/audio-credits
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Old Ghosts Gather
In the hour of death, what happens to us and the natural world which surrounds us? Cosmic Poet Simon Pole addresses this universal concern in his latest poem. From the Poems For Ocean collection.Website: https://simonpole.ca/ Audio Credits: https://simonpole.ca/pages/audio-credits
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The Counter-World (Echoes of Otherness)
All art is a counter-environment where human beings think and feel new things. Cosmic Poet Simon Pole offers a sonnet reveals this expansive vista to us. From the Poems For Ocean collection.Website: https://simonpole.ca/ Audio Credits: https://simonpole.ca/pages/audio-credits
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Wild Fountains
Fermented, brewed, or distilled: the result is the handmaiden of the muse. Cosmic Poet Simon Pole's latest verse addresses this universal truth. From the Poems For Ocean collection.Website: https://simonpole.ca/ Audio Credits: https://simonpole.ca/pages/audio-credits
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The Barber
The Barber is one of man's most ancient and developed professions. Listen to Cosmic Poet Simon Pole's tribute in verse to these able scissor-smiths. From the Poems For Ocean collection.Website: https://simonpole.ca/ Audio Credits: https://simonpole.ca/pages/audio-credits
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Power of Rain
Rain has a certain power to wash away what is past, and warm what is cold, but also brings reflection. Cosmic Poet Simon Pole explores this watery boon in the latest poem from the Poems For Ocean collection. Website: https://simonpole.ca/ Audio Credits: https://simonpole.ca/pages/audio-credits
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A Proposal
From the barstools of the world emanate many schemes to solve our problems, some in the form of poems. Cosmic Poet Simon Pole reads one of them here. From the Poems For Ocean collection.Website: https://simonpole.ca/ Audio Credits: https://simonpole.ca/pages/audio-credits
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Painted From Life
Let us defang boredom with this contemplation of creation and the artist's lot within. A poem read by Cosmic Poet Simon Pole, from the Poems For Ocean collection.Website: https://simonpole.ca/ Audio Credits: https://simonpole.ca/pages/audio-credits
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Palpable Menace
What is Palpable Menace, and should we be worried about it? Cosmic Poet Simon Pole offers a poem from the Poems For Ocean collection as an antidote.Website: https://simonpole.ca/ Audio Credits: https://simonpole.ca/pages/audio-credits
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Devil's Shill
Though the ill-gotten gains are plentiful, an articulate criminal laments his final situation. Cosmic Poet Simon Pole takes on this persona in the latest poem from the Poems For Ocean collection.Website: https://simonpole.ca/ Audio Credits: https://simonpole.ca/pages/audio-credits
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A Curse
A curse on all those who might mislead and mystify the people. Cosmic Poet Simon Pole makes such an invocation from the poetry collection, Poems For Ocean.Website: https://simonpole.ca/ Audio Credits: https://simonpole.ca/pages/audio-credits
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The Coffin Clock
There is the night before war…and then there is the day after. As today's verses from Cosmic Poet Simon Pole contend, what goes in the grave might not necessarily stay there quietly. From the collection Poems For Ocean. Website: https://simonpole.ca/ Audio Credits: https://simonpole.ca/pages/audio-credits
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Marks on a Page
Both men and books fade, prey to time, though some endure. Cosmic Poet Simon Pole explores this universal condition in his latest poem. From the collection Poems For Ocean.Website: https://simonpole.ca/ Audio Credits: https://simonpole.ca/pages/audio-credits
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The Gargoyle
Down the centuries the Gargoyle, perched as he is on the church roof, has witnessed the crimes of man. What did he see? Cosmic Poet Simon Pole tell us in this poem from the Poems For Ocean collection.Website: https://simonpole.ca/ Audio Credits: https://simonpole.ca/pages/audio-credits
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Loot-pile of the Slaves
Even the loser must have a poem and this it. Our narrator explains what drew him to robbery and jail. Cosmic Poet Simon Pole reads from the Poems For Ocean collection. Website: https://simonpole.ca/ Audio Credits: https://simonpole.ca/pages/audio-credits
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
The official podcast of Cosmic Poet Simon Pole. Hear a different poem performed each week in the Cosmic Poet's own authentic, expressive voice, with a short commentary for added enjoyment.Simon Pole is the author of six volumes of poetry, including the seven-poem epic cycle The Saga of Terminal City. Known for a distinctive brand of writing called Cosmic Poetry, which scales from the everyday to the spiritual heights beyond, Pole is a graduate of Harvard University, and a descendant of early Canadian poet Susie Drury.He lives in Kingsville, Ontario, on the north shore of Lake Erie.
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