Poetry is the art of weaving words together to form a tapestry. Welcome one and welcome all to the Woven Words Podcast! Join me (Ester) as I share my love of poetry and discuss the history of poems, poets, and poetic techniques. Please feel free to send me your feedback and suggestions here: https://forms.gle/z66DoHNtWktdJkdJ6
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Poetry is the art of weaving words together to form a tapestry. Welcome one and welcome all to the Woven Words Podcast! Join me (Ester) as I share my love of poetry and discuss the history of poems, poets, and poetic techniques. Please feel free to send me your feedback and suggestions here: https://forms.gle/z66DoHNtWktdJkdJ6
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October 31, 2022
Episode 7 - The Finch and the Fire
<p>Happy Halloween! In this episode, I share the history of the spooky holiday through Samhain, the Celtic predecessor to modern-day Halloween. I also read a little poem inspired by Samhain by author Annie Finch. Here it is if you'd like to read along!</p> <p><strong>Samhain by Annie Finch</strong></p> <p>In the season leaves should love,</p> <p>since it gives them leave to move</p> <p>through the wind, towards the ground</p> <p>they were watching while they hung,</p> <p>legend says there is a seam</p> <p>stitching darkness like a name.</p> <p><br></p> <p>Now when dying grasses veil</p> <p>earth from the sky in one last pale</p> <p>wave, as autumn dies to bring</p> <p>winter back, and then the spring,</p> <p>we who die ourselves can peel</p> <p>back another kind of veil</p> <p><br></p> <p>that hangs among us like thick smoke.</p> <p>Tonight at last I feel it shake.</p> <p>I feel the nights stretching away</p> <p>thousands long behind the days</p> <p>till they reach the darkness where</p> <p>all of me is ancestor.</p> <p><br></p> <p>I move my hand and feel a touch</p> <p>move with me, and when I brush</p> <p>my own mind across another,</p> <p>I am with my mother's mother.</p> <p>Sure as footsteps in my waiting</p> <p>self, I find her, and she brings</p> <p><br></p> <p>arms that carry answers for me,</p> <p>intimate, a waiting bounty.</p> <p>"Carry me." She leaves this trail</p> <p>through a shudder of the veil,</p> <p>and leaves, like amber where she stays,</p> <p>a gift for her perpetual gaze.</p>
September 23, 2022
Episode 6 - A Terrible Beauty
<p>In this episode, I talk about the history of one of my favorite poets, William Butler Yeats, and his poem Easter, 1916. The cover art is a rose photograph of mine. Here's the poem if you'd like to read along:</p> <p><strong>Easter, 1916 by William Butler Yeats</strong></p> <p>I have met them at close of day</p> <p>Coming with vivid faces</p> <p>From counter or desk among grey</p> <p>Eighteenth-century houses.</p> <p>I have passed with a nod of the head</p> <p>Or polite meaningless words,</p> <p>Or have lingered awhile and said</p> <p>Polite meaningless words,</p> <p>And thought before I had done</p> <p>Of a mocking tale or a gibe</p> <p>To please a companion</p> <p>Around the fire at the club,</p> <p>Being certain that they and I</p> <p>But lived where motley is worn:</p> <p>All changed, changed utterly:</p> <p>A terrible beauty is born.</p> <p><br></p> <p>That woman's days were spent</p> <p>In ignorant good-will,</p> <p>Her nights in argument</p> <p>Until her voice grew shrill.</p> <p>What voice more sweet than hers</p> <p>When, young and beautiful,</p> <p>She rode to harriers?</p> <p>This man had kept a school</p> <p>And rode our wingèd horse;</p> <p>This other his helper and friend</p> <p>Was coming into his force;</p> <p>He might have won fame in the end,</p> <p>So sensitive his nature seemed,</p> <p>So daring and sweet his thought.</p> <p>This other man I had dreamed</p> <p>A drunken, vainglorious lout.</p> <p>He had done most bitter wrong</p> <p>To some who are near my heart,</p> <p>Yet I number him in the song;</p> <p>He, too, has resigned his part</p> <p>In the casual comedy;</p> <p>He, too, has been changed in his turn,</p> <p>Transformed utterly:</p> <p>A terrible beauty is born.</p> <p><br></p> <p>Hearts with one purpose alone</p> <p>Through summer and winter seem</p> <p>Enchanted to a stone</p> <p>To trouble the living stream.</p> <p>The horse that comes from the road,</p> <p>The rider, the birds that range</p> <p>From cloud to tumbling cloud,</p> <p>Minute by minute they change;</p> <p>A shadow of cloud on the stream</p> <p>Changes minute by minute;</p> <p>A horse-hoof slides on the brim,</p> <p>And a horse plashes within it;</p> <p>The long-legged moor-hens dive,</p> <p>And hens to moor-cocks call;</p> <p>Minute by minute they live:</p> <p>The stone's in the midst of all.</p> <p><br></p> <p>Too long a sacrifice</p> <p>Can make a stone of the heart.</p> <p>O when may it suffice?</p> <p>That is Heaven's part, our part</p> <p>To murmur name upon name,</p> <p>As a mother names her child</p> <p>When sleep at last has come</p> <p>On limbs that had run wild.</p> <p>What is it but nightfall?</p> <p>No, no, not night but death;</p> <p>Was it needless death after all?</p> <p>For England may keep faith</p> <p>For all that is done and said.</p> <p>We know their dream; enough</p> <p>To know they dreamed and are dead;</p> <p>And what if excess of love</p> <p>Bewildered them till they died?</p> <p>I write it out in a verse—</p> <p>MacDonagh and MacBride</p> <p>And Connolly and Pearse</p> <p>Now and in time to be,</p> <p>Wherever green is worn,</p> <p>Are changed, changed utterly:</p> <p>A terrible beauty is born.</p>
May 7, 2022
Episode 5 - It's Rhyme Time Somewhere!
<p>In this episode, I talk about the different types of rhyme in poetry, as well as a little history about Emily Dickinson and her poem "'Hope' is the thing with feathers". The different types of rhyme discussed today include perfect rhyme, end rhyme, internal rhyme, slant rhyme, rich rhyme, eye rhyme, alliteration, light rhyme and syllabic rhyme. The cover art is by Denis Hopkins, a painting entitled "Hope is the Thing with Feathers, my Friend". Here is the poem if you'd like to read along:</p> <p>“Hope” is the thing with feathers -</p> <p>That perches in the soul -</p> <p>And sings the tune without the words -</p> <p>And never stops - at all -</p> <p><br></p> <p>And sweetest - in the Gale - is heard -</p> <p>And sore must be the storm -</p> <p>That could abash the little Bird</p> <p>That kept so many warm -</p> <p><br></p> <p>I’ve heard it in the chillest land -</p> <p>And on the strangest Sea -</p> <p>Yet - never - in Extremity,</p> <p>It asked a crumb - of me.</p>
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