Episodes
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Climb
A sestina for the Kernersville's 9.11 Memorial Ceremony.
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Ordinary Prayer 73
When I was heart-heavy with bitterness when my sadness soured me in the mess of my mess I bellowed and blew like a big, dumb ox. -- Ordinary Prayer 73
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Poppies
This rondeau is in honor of Veteran’s Day and is after John McCrae’s “In Flanders Fields.” You may listen to me read the poem via the player below. In whitened rows, a hundred score,The graves of soldiers of The WarWho gave their lives, in Ypres fought,Who landed here, broad waters crossedTo…
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Music Review: Interloper by Zane Vickery
Zane Vickery’s second full-length album, Interloper, is a personal work in which Vickery works to make sense and understand the purpose of his life. The album is a work, and by that I mean it is not a collection of songs, but a rock opera. Opera fits. So does, epic. Or even confession. It...
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The Dragon’s Mouth
The following poem is inspired by two scriptures: Revelation 12:15-17 which reads, “The serpent poured water like a river out of his mouth after the woman, to sweep her away with a flood,” and Luke 22:54-62 which tells of the Apostle’s Peter’s denial of Jesus. In addition, I was also inspired by...
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Keel and Beam
Here is a sonnet that came to me earlier in the week. You may listen to me read it via the player below. Set as the keel, He was placed between twoEnds, and into His arms, He took His crew;As a ship, He bore them into the seaWithin the hold of his keel and beam.Though […]
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Isaiah 40
This past Advent and Christmas season, the Almond Tree Artist Collective has been engaged in creating works based on weekly prompts taken from Isaiah 40:1-5 which reads, Comfort, comfort my people, says your God.Speak tenderly to Jerusalem, and cry to her that her warfare is ended, that her...
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Turning Tides
Day 20’s Poetry Pub prompt for the Poem a Day Challenge is “turning tides.” You may listen to me read the poem via the player below. Our rocky planet spins in a bubble Of water and stone that travels through space In a capsule of air. And gravity, The weakest fundamental force in The universe, […]
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Second Joy
The Day 17 Prompt for The Poetry Pub’s November Poem a Day Challenge is a Form Friday prompt. The poetic form is “terza rima” — a form invented by Dante Alighieri which he employs in his Divine Comedy. This poem I’ve actually been working on for four years since attending a summer class at Regent...
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Nostalgia or Whatever
The Poetry Pub’s day 12 prompt for the November Poem a Day Challenge is “nostalgia.” I can’t even see that word anymore without thinking of C.S. Lewis’ sermon, “The Weight of Glory, in which he writes, In speaking of this desire for our own faroff country, which we find in ourselves even now, I...
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Christmas Truce
Day 11: Poetry Pub Poem a Day Challenge prompt for NovPad2023 is “Favorite Season”. In honor of Veterans Day, I offer this stanza. My favorite is the season that interrupts The present way we think things have to be: When homesick soldiers Christmas Eve climb up Out of trenches, cross no mans…
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About this show
"The spell must be unwound, bit by bit..." C.S. Lewis