The Poet (delayed)

The Poet (delayed)

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  • Episode 11: “The Sadness Will Last Forever”

    I'd love to hear what you have to say about the episode including thoughts on the poetry and the topics that were discussed. You can email me at [email protected].

    THE SADNESS WILL LAST FOREVER

    I feel you here.
    I sense your soul in the quiet darkness
    Of the slow. flow of le Rhône
    As she wanders under your
    Starry Night
    Past the place of your
    Yellow House.
    I sense you too in the day light,
    As the yellow sun arcs
    Through the sky of broad, blue strokes.
    I see the fields, littered with Ancient Rome,
    In your colors
    yellows, greens and blues
    As if painted in windmilled paints
    Bright and layered thick.
    And the heavenward sunflowers turn their heads.
    As if searching for you
    Wanting to be immortalized on your canvas.
    But you've been gone for ages
    Your sadness took you away.

    Adam's questions to ask yourself about creativity:

    1. What does creativity mean to you?
    2. What is your greatest fear around creating art and
      3. sharing it?
    3. How does your inner critic affect your creative
      4. process and where are you most sensitive to
      criticism?
    4. When did you realize you were creative and how was
      5. that nurtured or not nurtured?
    5. When and what areas are you most open to criticism
      6. as it pertains to your art?

      My first book of poetry can be purchased from Amazon by clicking this link: My Mother Sleeps

      Special Guest: Adam Nisenson, MA, LAMFT, CSAT.

      59 min
    6. Episode 10: A Subtle Wound

      I'd love to hear what you have to say about the episode including thoughts on the poetry and the topics that were discussed. You can email me at [email protected].

      A SUBTLE WOUND

      You left me when my world
      Was measured by a child's stride.
      You had to go away for awhile,
      I was told
      To ease me into the truth:
      You were gone
      And not coming back.

      It was involuntary, I know

      Your leaving
      But intent is not part
      Of trauma's calculus
      So I was not spared -
      Though the wound went unnoticed:
      There was no nervous response
      Or reflexive recoil
      As when you touch a hot pan.
      It was subtle:
      no bleeding, no blistered flesh.
      Just a change in routine
      And one less setting at the table.

      Jackie Pack's Podcast:

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      If you're interested, I recently published a book of poetry which is available on Amazon.com: My Mother Sleeps

      Episode Cover Art by Ginny Rose Stewart on Unsplash

      Special Guest: Jackie Pack, LCSW, CSAT-S, CMAT.

      56 min
    7. Episode 9: Bonus: “Elvis” Movie Review

      Jason and I watched the new Elvis movie Thursday night and this is our review.

      We both gave it 8 blue suede shoes out 10.

      I'd love to hear what you have to say about the episode including thoughts on the poetry and the topics that were discussed. You can email me at [email protected].

      If you're interested, I recently published two books of poetry which are available on Amazon.com

      Special Guest: Jason Small.

      1 hr 1 min
    8. Episode 8: Besieged

      I'd love to hear what you have to say about the episode including thoughts on the poetry and the topics that were discussed. You can email me at [email protected].

      I’m joined by Jason Small in this episode as I read my poem “Besieged” and we discuss the difficulty of facing challenges to our way of thinking and being and how we’ve dealt with it.

      BESIEGED

      Possibilities march

      On my walled city of certainties
      And lay siege.

      If you're interested, I recently published two books of poetry which are available on Amazon

      My Mother Sleeps

      Special Guest: Jason Small.

      1 hr 4 min
    9. Episode 7: Your Father's Son

      I'd love to hear what you have to say about the episode including thoughts on the poetry and the topics that were

      discussed. You can email me at [email protected].

      YOUR FATHER’S SON

      Your soul was large

      It needed to consume newness
      again and again
      But the Chicago frontier
      Hemmed you in
      You couldn't expand.
      So you crossed the cold,
      Impersonal Atlantic
      To the hot,
      Exploding Italian front
      Where death nearly took you.
      It was simple, you said
      You looked at it and knew
      But you consumed it and moved
      Gaining immunity, it seemed
      For death couldn't take you
      On its own- though it tried
      again and again
      But it couldn't take you –
      until Ketchum
      Where your father's shadow waited.

      If you're interested, I recently published two books of poetry which are available on Amazon

      Thank you for listening.

      Special Guest: Ryan Thomas.

      57 min
    10. Episode 6: On Pain by Khalil Gibran

      In this episode, I read Khalil Gibran’s passage on pain from his book, The Prophet and discuss pain, including discomfort and fear, and the impact it’s had in my life. I also, discuss ways that I’ve found to work through pain such as finding meaning in it.

      I'd love to hear what you have to say about the episode including thoughts on the poetry and the topics that were discussed. You can email me at [email protected].

      On Pain

      And a woman spoke, saying, Tell us of Pain.

      And he said:

      Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses
      your understanding.

      Even as the stone of the fruit must break, that its

      heart may stand in the sun, so must you know pain.

      And could you keep your heart in wonder at the

      daily miracles of your life, your pain would not seem
      less wondrous than your joy;

      And you would accept the seasons of your heart,

      even as you have always accepted the seasons that
      pass over your fields.

      And you would watch with serenity through the

      winters of your grief.

      Much of your pain is self-chosen.

      It is the bitter potion by which the physician within

      you heals your sick self.

      Therefore trust the physician, and drink his remedy

      in silence and tranquillity:

      For his hand, though heavy and hard, is guided by

      the tender hand of the Unseen,

      And the cup he brings, though it burn your lips, has

      been fashioned of the clay which the Potter has
      moistened with His own sacred tears.

      If you're interested, I recently published two books of poetry which are available on Amazon.com

      48 min
    11. Episode 5: "Emperor Concerto," II

      In this episode, I read my poem, “Emperor Concerto, II” and I’m joined by Ric de Azevedo as we discuss the power of music.

      “EMPEROR CONCERTO” II

      The strings prepare me

      Like a good opening act,
      For the moment the piano comes in
      Like a ballerina on point
      Delicately entering the stage.
      I’m speechless every time.
      In awe (reverent almost)
      As my body absorbs the sound waves
      Harnessed two centuries ago by a deaf man
      Who arranged them into beauty
      Then converted them to ink and
      Stained them on paper.
      And now I sit, transfixed,
      As a modern-day acoustic alchemist
      Transmutes the ink back into waves
      And floods me with euphoria.

      [Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 5 in E-Flat Major, OP. 73 "Emperor," II. Adagio un poco moto (mosso)]

      Real Live Girl

      I'd love to hear what you have to say bout the episode including thoughts on the topics that were discussed. You can email me at [email protected].

      Special Guest: Ric de Azevedo.

      38 min
    12. Episode 4: Unconditional

      I'd love to hear your thoughts and comments regarding the topics discussed in this episode. You can email me at [email protected]. Thank you for listening!

      UNCONDITIONAL

      Thrust into mortality

      New and unbroken yet
      And you,
      Having just crossed the valley,
      With tender reach
      Pull me close to your body
      Which was broken for me.
      In your safety,
      Your heartbeat communicates to me
      Of love
      Of possession –
      I belong to you.
      In that moment,
      I alone am your world.
      I alone am your joy.

      Poems read by Aunt Kash:

      Triolet Against Sister, Phyllis McGinley

      Sisters are always drying their hair.

      Locked into rooms, alone,
      They pose at the mirror, shoulders bare,
      Trying this way and that their hair,
      Or fly importunate down the stair
      To answer a telephone.
      Sisters are always drying their hair,
      Locked into rooms, alone.

      Troilet Against Sisters with notes by Aunt Kash's mom

      Emily Dickinson poem recited by Aunt Kash's mom:

      If I can stop one heart from breaking,

      I shall not live in vain;
      If I can ease one life the aching,
      Or cool one pain,
      Or help one fainting robin
      Unto his nest again,
      I shall not live in vain.

      Also, if any of you are interested, I recently self-published a couple books of poetry and they are for sale on Amazon.com (only in paperback at the moment).

      My books

      Episode image is my mother and my sister, Melissa.

      Special Guest: Aunt Kash.

      48 min
    13. Episode 3: Forgotten Walls

      I'd love to hear any of your thoughts or comments regarding my poem or our discussion in this episode. You can email me at [email protected].

      Thanks for listening.

      FORGOTTEN WALLS

      Clarity comes

      And the walls reveal themselves –
      tall, strong and immovable.
      In the haze and fog,
      Which is his daily walk,
      Their existence is blurred;
      They are forgotten
      Though he was there when they were built,
      and even added stones.
      Now in clarity, he looks to bring them down –
      stone by stone.
      And so he works relentlessly,
      with pick and hammer
      As his salty sweat stings his eyes and
      His muscles and mind fatigue.
      Yet his only yield from this Sisyphean task is
      Bloodied palms and frustration,
      While the stones remain, one upon the other.
      Then slowly and imperceptibly,
      (under cover of his exhausted heart and mind)
      The fog seeps back again
      And hides the stony barricade.

      The image used as the cover art and on the header is a painting of Sisyphus by Titian.

      [](By Titian - [2], Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=3860214)

      Special Guest: Josh Baron.

      55 min
    14. Episode 2: [Ignorant before the heavens of my life] by Rainer Maria Rilke

      Life is tragic and it is easy to get bogged down to the point where we just wake, eat, work, sleep, repeat or we suffer traumatic events that may cause us to withdraw into a seemingly protected existence. In both instances, we miss out on living a meaningful life and on experiencing the invigoration of being human. I feel that this poem by Rilke discusses the moment we become aware that there is a vibrant life to be lived and the realizations surrounding that awareness. It seems to encapsulate the beginning or the call of the mythological hero's journey.

      [Ignorant before the heavens of my life]

      Ignorant before the heavens of my life,

      I stand and gaze in wonder. Oh the vastness
      of the stars. Their rising and descent. How still.
      As if I didn't exist. Do I have any
      share in this? Have I somehow dispensed with
      their pure effect? Does my blood's ebb and flow
      change with their changes? Let me put aside
      every desire, every relationship
      except this one, so that my heart grows used to
      its farthest spaces. Better that it live
      fully aware, in the terror of its stars, than
      as if protected, soothed by what is near.

      RM Rilke

      I'd love to hear any comments or thoughts about this episode. You can email me at [email protected]. Thanks for listening.

      28 min

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