today's episode is a reading of mary oliver's "invitation" poem.

i explored with playing the piano as a background music while reading it. i hope you like it:) it's a section from beethoven's "moonlight sonata".

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in today's episode i am reading a poem by maya angelo, "touched by an angel".

thank you james rafael for gifting me the knowledge of this poem:)


maya angelo
james rafael

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yes we are obsessed with mary oliver here on "a poetic picnic".

today i am reading her poems:

"last night the rain spoke to me" & "the first sign of the zodiac" part 3.

much love
alice

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in today's episode i am very mindful of my words, so expect silences.

the poem is by kathleen jamie and it is called "daisies".

it came on my radar because of the artist joanna mccormick who is my art teacher read it to me, fell in love and wanted to share it with you here.

much love,
alice

kathleen jamie
joanna mccormick
@apoeticpicnic
@alicesaga
oh and my kitten has her own insta account: @hopesotnos

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today's reading is by w. timothy gallwey, "when we plant a rose seed in the earth".

yesterday morning i again had a treat joining james rafael's vinyasa flow class where he read this beautiful prose/ text by w. timothy galley. and it so much connected with me that i wanted to share it with you here.

there is too an experiment in the end when i am reading my own poem from the last episode while my piano teacher jason rose created a back track on the fly during my class for my poem. i put it together yesterday, so here is first draft:)!.

much love,
alice

timothy gallwey
james rafael
jason rose

i do have a specific instagram account for this podacast if you wanna dm me:) you can too reach me on my email: [email protected]
for my  fine art photography and a few things: alice saga

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today's poem is created by me. i created it for the swedish church in london and its magazine "kyrkobladet".  the theme for this edition was "behind the scenes" and my poem is about the questions and asks i have for our creator of the universe, while and before i create my own creations.

i forgot to mention in the episode that the title of the poem is inspired by judi blume's novel and its title "are you there god it's me margaret."

poem by me:
website
instagram

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in today's episode i am reading the poem "messenger" by mary oliver.
my yoga teacher  james read it this morning during his vinyasa yoga class and fell in love (and of course wanted to share it here with you).
mary was the reason i started writing poetry myself,  but  had not read this specific poem. such beauty and such a gift i was given this morning.

MY WORK IS LOVING THIS WORLD

james rafael

here is another poem of hers i shared on my blog back in 2015:
https://alicewonderland2.blogspot.com/2015/04/diary-268-flowery-strawberry-girl.html

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2021 has been a hard year for me,  withstanding the pandemic.

in the end a kitten and a new medication in the middle of november helped blessedly
beautifully:)

i am reading a poem
by osip mandelstam
"and i was alive"

there is a mention of an article from "the new yorker" magazine in regards to this poem
and his situation at that moment when he wrote it:
https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/mandela-in-verse-myself-i-stood-in-the-storm

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so here we go again, another poem by mary oliver. 

it's one of those with no title. but it starts with "just to be alive".

the background is my radio playing the station "classical fm" and it is christmas time. 
a beautiful time to be alive. 

a summer solstice time to change direction of ones life, just like the earth,
pausing and changing direction.

too, wintering  being a time of pause so shall i.

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in today's poem i read "the eagle" by joy harjo!

mentions:

joy harjo

james raphahel

litcharts

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