This is Episode 94 of Poems for the Speed of Life.

Today's poem is "A Seeming Stillness" by David Whyte.

David Whyte is an English poet whose work has drawn a phenomenal following in recent years. His work seems to have tapped into something vital in the world right now, something all of us hunger after, some deep and profound connection with the land beneath us, the air around us and — importantly — to each other, across uncrossable time and unbridgeable space.

This is the third time works by David Whyte have featured in this podcast. You can search in your podcast player for Episode 7, "Sometimes" and Episode 38 "The Bell and the Blackbird". And as I mentioned in those episodes too, as always with poetry by David Whyte, please do seek out and find recordings or videos of the poet reading his own work. He has a truly unique delivery that elevates the works to something much more than words on a page.

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