"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 Rising

My 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 profane
the 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.

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Supported in part by The Ohio Poetry Association
Art by David Anthony Klug

List 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 (/ /)