Welcome back, my loves and sorry for the delay in uploading this episode. 

Life is what happens when you're busy making other plans. 

This short episode features a collection of wintry poems including:

Winter by Sudeep Sen

Snow by Gillian Clarke

Tynemouth by Aiden Scott

Winter Solstice by Hilda Morley

Winter Time by Robert Louis Stevenson

Trio by Edwin Morgan

Winter Solstice by Michael McLure

Spellbound by Emily Bronte

A Winter Bluejay by Sara Teasdale

Winter Morning by Richard Meier

Winter Solstice Haibun by Lynn Valentine

Fire and Ice - Robert Frost

Holy Ground. - Matthew Andrews : http://www.matthewjandrews.com

This is Girt by Fire - JP Seabright : https://jpseabright.com

Burning - Sarah Connor : https://fmmewritespoems.wordpress.com

Where did this begin?  - Nikki Dudley: https://www.nikkidudleywriter.com

Eruption - Jared Beloff: https://www.jaredbeloff.com

Smoke - Rebecca Kenny in collaboration with Emily Paget : https://www.instagram.com/rebeccakennywrites/

The Charcoal Burners Wife - Karen Jane Cannon : https://magmapoetry.com/archive/magma-81-anthropocene/

Public Service Announcements - Jude Marr: http://judemarr.com

Fire on the hills - Robinson Jeffers

The Burning -  Liz Berry: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/152126/the-burning

Firefly under the tongue - coral Bracho, translated by Forrest Gander: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/49318/firefly-under-the-tongue

You were a boy the night you knelt - Katherine Blair: @Katherine_blair

Matchbox Mouth - Daniel Duggan: https://www.instagram.com/dandugpoetry/

Poetry by Samuel Taylor Coleridge 

Helen J Aitken - Haiku  http://helenjaitken.co.uk

Ankh Spice  - A place to stand, a lever https://femmesalvebooks.net/the-water-engine-by-ankh-spice/

Dr Paula Aamli  - Standing Alone in the Rain

Edward Thomas - Rain http://helenjaitken.co.uk

Langston Hughes - The Negro speaks of Rivers https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44428/the-negro-speaks-of-rivers

Sarah Connor - Words on Water https://fmmewritespoems.wordpress.com

Alex Guenther - Downpour bitly.com/sonnets2021

Louise Mather-  Oracle https://www.amazon.co.uk/Dredging-Rituals-Louise-Mather/dp/B09LH4RXJN

Judith Kingston - Jeff Buckley, Drowning https://www.judithkingston.com

Melody Wang - As if in a waterlogged dream https://melodyofmusings.com

Sarah Degner Riveros - Riven http://www.rogueagentjournal.com/sriveros

Cynthia Miller - Sonnet with Lighthouses https://www.forwardartsfoundation.org/forward-prizes-for-poetry-2/cynthia-miller-sonnet-with-lighthouses/

Soo Finch - Becoming a mermaid soopoftheday-soo.blogspot.com

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When men were all asleep the snow came flying 

A short reading of London Snow by Robert Bridges to celebrate the first snow most of us have seen this winter. 

This episode celebrates the tiny creatures that share our world. 

The Poems are: 

To a Mouse, by Robert Burns 

And another thing... by Ellie Rees

Deathwatch Beetle by Linda Pastan

Plan B by Teo Eve

Locusts by Robert Morgan

A bird in the house by Robin Blaser

Joy by Miller Oberman

Barbastelle by Paul Brookes

Migration of Birds by Gary Snyder

The Hare by Selima Hill

Why I did not report by Judith Kingston

Be still and listen to the dog dream by Kate Holden

I want to thank, from the very bottom of my heart all the poets who allowed me to use their work for this episode. Your work makes every day so much more beautiful.

This episode is all about music. Poems that talk about music, or musical instruments, specific songs or use music as a metaphor. It features:

Lyrics by Paul Simon

Poetry by:

Victor Hernandez Cruz

Adam Zagajewski

Jim Young

Rebecca Wolff

Rainer Maria Rilke

Siegfried Sassoon

Ginny Henson

Emilie Buchwald

Regine Ebner

Marion Ashton, and

George Szirtes

As always you can find me on Twitter @BlueDoorCosmos

In the last of my short episodes (for now) sharing poetry and prose on Climate Change, I read Margaret Atwood's 'Time Capsule Found on the Dead Planet' a truly haunting story about what will be left. 

This poem was born while watching a documentary about the universe. 

It's not great, not terrible but it's mine

I hope you enjoy it and I'd love to know what you think about it. 

Featuring the works of

Christina Rosetti

Elizabeth M. Castillo

Sharon Olds

W.B. Yeats

Rebecca Kenny

Jenny Wong

Mary Oliver

T.S.Eliot

Michael Rosen

Mary Oliver

Three exquisite poems on Climate change to mark Cop 26.

The Sorceror's Mirror - Andrew Motion

2084 - Carol Rumens

The Spider - Kathleen Jamie

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