Be More Poet

This is a short episode to finish the series. It starts with an opportunity for a beautiful pause and concludes by listening to the songs on the wind.

Rick Rubin’s words from The Creative Act: A Way of Being – “The work reveals itself as you go.” – has been my companion text for how Be More Poet is evolving… And I am grateful to you for joining me here.

From A most beautiful pause

From Hearing songs on the wind

My hope is that these words enable you to pause, see yourself and your world differently and discover more of the song – the story – that you are here to sing.

Thanks for listening

Sue Heatherington

~ from a little valley in South West Wales

LINKS

Sue Heatherington – personal website with daily poetic pauses, other words, and Be More Poet. You can also find me on LinkedIn and Twitter/X

Production partner – Steve Heatherington at Good Podcasting Works

Music: Classical 1, by Jonny S (Mixkit.co Classical-1-708)

This podcast is a Waterside Voices production.

A short meander through the phases of internal change in the company of ten poems and a few words from Leonard Cohen.

Here are links to the blog posts where each of the poems appears (including beautiful photographs from the valley).

PAUSE

• Just Pause
• Pause in This Place
• Being Quiet

SEE DIFFERENTLY

• Angles of Light
• Viewpoint
• The Gift of Seeing Slant

RE-STORY

• The Song
• Coming to Rest
• The Long Arc
• Dawning

Thanks for listening

Sue Heatherington

~ from a little valley in South West Wales

LINKS

Sue Heatherington – personal website with daily poetic pauses, other words, and Be More Poet. You can also find me on LinkedIn and Twitter/X

Production partner – Steve Heatherington at Good Podcasting Works

Music: Classical 1, by Jonny S (Mixkit.co Classical-1-708)

This podcast is a Waterside Voices production.

Time to pause and reflect on who we are and what we are becoming through the lens of a poem because seeing differently grows a new story.

Tracing the emerging threads of humanity that were evident in the poetic pauses for peace in the last episode, I continued to muse and wrote a new poem:

You can find the original here: Are we ready to be human?

Elizabeth Oldfield’s podcast is The Sacred, and her new book is Fully Alive: Tending to the Soul in Turbulent Times, Hodder & Stoughton, 2024

Thanks for listening

Sue Heatherington

~ from a little valley in South West Wales

LINKS

Sue Heatherington – personal website with daily poetic pauses, other words, and Be More Poet. You can also find me on LinkedIn and Twitter/X

Production partner – Steve Heatherington at Good Podcasting Works

Music: Classical 1, by Jonny S (Mixkit.co Classical-1-708)

This podcast is a Waterside Voices production.

Nine months ago, I was drawn to start offering a weekly Pause for Peace in the face of the mounting violence around the world. This episode explores the power of the poetic in standing in such a place, helping us see with different eyes and enlarging our humanity.

Excerpt from Saved by a Poem: The Transformative Power of Words by Kim Rosen

A Midweek Pause for Peace:

• Join me in a pause for peace
• A collective pause for peace  – A Collective Pause
• Joining together in a midweek Pause for Peace  – Seeding Beautiful Words
• Midweek Pause for Peace – being a peace poet
• Holding space for a midweek Pause for Peace  – When there are no words
• A midweek Pause for Peace  – For Peace
• A midweek Pause for Peace – a reminder that love wins  – Real Peace
• Midweek Pause for Peace in a relational space  – The Whole Piece
• Holding Grief – a midweek Pause for Peace  – Holding Grief
• Still Waiting – a midweek Pause for Peace  – Still Waiting
• Finding Our Way Home – a midweek Pause for Peace  – Finding Our Way Home
• Shifting perspective – a midweek Pause for Peace  – Open Hands
• Being Open – a midweek Pause for Peace  – Being Human

You can find all of the midweek Pause for Peace blog posts on my website using the Pause for Peace tag.

And if these have inspired you to write your own #Pause4Peace poems, then I’d love to hear from you.

Thanks for listening

Sue Heatherington

~ from a little valley in South West Wales

LINKS

Sue Heatherington – personal website with daily poetic pauses, other words, and Be More Poet. You can also find me on LinkedIn and Twitter/X

Production partner – Steve Heatherington at Good Podcasting Works

Music: Classical 1, by Jonny S (Mixkit.co Classical-1-708)

This podcast is a Waterside Voices production.

Using a poem to explore wild hope and its outworking here in a little valley in South West Wales.

You can read the poem in its original form on my blog: The invitation of wild hope

Thanks for listening.

Sue Heatherington

~ from a little valley in South West Wales

Sue Heatherington – personal website with daily poetic pauses, other words, and Be More Poet. You can also find me on LinkedIn and Twitter/X

Production partner – Steve Heatherington at Good Podcasting Works

Music: Classical 1, by Jonny S (Mixkit.co Classical-1-708)

This podcast is a Waterside Voices production.

Using two poems to explore ‘becoming’ as a practice that releases and sustains life.

You can read the poems on my blog:

• Unfurling
• The warmth of becoming

The BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Arts captured behind-the-scenes for the creation of Antony Gormley’s Domain Field exhibition in 2003 on Google Arts & Culture

Thanks for listening.

Sue Heatherington

~ from a little valley in South West Wales

Sue Heatherington – personal website with daily poetic pauses, other words, and Be More Poet. You can also find me on LinkedIn and Twitter/X

Production partner – Steve Heatherington at Good Podcasting Works

Music: Classical 1, by Jonny S (Mixkit.co Classical-1-708)

This podcast is a Waterside Voices production.

A wonderful conversation crossing miles and landscapes from the flat Fens of Eastern England to the valleys of Wales, yet finding a place of rest. Will shares his journey with poetry and three poems that mark milestones of his soul’s travels.

Will’s three poems are:

• Swallowed by a vast sky
• The darkness of memory
• Your beauty

They can be found on his LinkTree page – The Will Johnson Journey - along with links to his work as a Courage Coach, Circle of Trust facilitator and his other writings.

We also talked about David Whyte’s poem ‘Start Close In’, from his book Essentials, Many Rivers Press, 2020. And Gabrielle Roth’s 5Rhythms.

Thanks for listening.

Sue Heatherington

~ from a little valley in South West Wales

Sue Heatherington – personal website with daily poetic pauses, other words, and Be More Poet. You can also find me on LinkedIn and Twitter/X

Production partner – Steve Heatherington at Good Podcasting Works

Music: Classical 1, by Jonny S (Mixkit.co Classical-1-708)

This podcast is a Waterside Voices production.

Is there a better word than slow? Exploring words and how they shape the world we see and the life we live using a short poem:

Read the poem on my blog: Lingering with the Intention of Life

Thanks for listening.

Sue Heatherington

~ from a little valley in South West Wales

Sue Heatherington – personal website with daily poetic pauses, other words, and Be More Poet. You can also find me on LinkedIn and Twitter/X

Production partner – Steve Heatherington at Good Podcasting Works

Music: Classical 1, by Jonny S (Mixkit.co Classical-1-708)

This podcast is a Waterside Voices production.

Exploring a different way of seeing from a little valley in South West Wales with me, Sue Heatherington.

In this episode, we use a poem I wrote earlier in March to explore our sense of the edge, what we might find there, and why we need travelling companions.

Read the poem in my blog of 15th March 2024: Softly walking on the edge

For more on Quiet Disruptors, including the manifesto, book, resources and podcast, go to Quiet Disruptors. The podcast can also be found on all podcasting platforms.

Thanks for listening,

Sue Heatherington

~ from a little valley in South West Wales

Links:

Sue Heatherington – personal website with daily poetic pauses, other words, and Be More Poet. You can also find me on LinkedIn and Twitter/X

Production partner – Steve Heatherington at Good Podcasting Works

Music: Classical 1, by Jonny S (Mixkit.co Classical-1-708)

This podcast is a Waterside Voices production.

Exploring a different way of seeing from a little valley in South West Wales with me, Sue Heatherington.

In this episode, I explore how the sense of place shapes what we see. In particular, the characteristics the valley shares with other pockets of temperate rainforest on the western flanks of Britain.

How Spring emerges here is distinctive and speaks to the transitions in our lives, whether through the seasons or in the significant turning points we encounter. Because becoming is a practice of life.

This episode also marks the shift to a fortnightly rhythm.

Read the poem in my blog of 23rd March 2024: The promise of a wonderful unfurling

Thanks for listening,

Sue Heatherington

~ from a little valley in South West Wales

Links:

Sue Heatherington – personal website with daily poetic pauses, other words, and Be More Poet. You can also find me on LinkedIn and Twitter/X

Production partner – Steve Heatherington at Good Podcasting Works

Music: Classical 1, by Jonny S (Mixkit.co Classical-1-708)

This podcast is a Waterside Voices production.