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Saturday Morning Words + Coffee
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38 episodes
5 months ago
Having a look at Frank O'Hara's poem Lana Turner Has Collapsed. Lana Turner has collapsed! I was trotting along and suddenly it started raining and snowing and you said it was hailing but hailing hits you on the head hard so it was really snowing and raining and I was in such a hurry to meet you but the traffic was acting exactly like the sky and suddenly I see a headline LANA TURNER HAS COLLAPSED! there is no snow in Hollywood there is no rain in California I have been to lots of parties and...
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Having a look at Frank O'Hara's poem Lana Turner Has Collapsed. Lana Turner has collapsed! I was trotting along and suddenly it started raining and snowing and you said it was hailing but hailing hits you on the head hard so it was really snowing and raining and I was in such a hurry to meet you but the traffic was acting exactly like the sky and suddenly I see a headline LANA TURNER HAS COLLAPSED! there is no snow in Hollywood there is no rain in California I have been to lots of parties and...
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Saturday Morning Words + Coffee
Frank O'Hara - Lana Turner Has Collapsed
Having a look at Frank O'Hara's poem Lana Turner Has Collapsed. Lana Turner has collapsed! I was trotting along and suddenly it started raining and snowing and you said it was hailing but hailing hits you on the head hard so it was really snowing and raining and I was in such a hurry to meet you but the traffic was acting exactly like the sky and suddenly I see a headline LANA TURNER HAS COLLAPSED! there is no snow in Hollywood there is no rain in California I have been to lots of parties and...
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8 months ago
4 minutes

Saturday Morning Words + Coffee
Robert Frost - Old Man's Winter Night
Taking a look at Robert Frost's Old Man's Winter Night. All out of doors looked darkly in at him Through the thin frost, almost in separate stars, That gathers on the pane in empty rooms. What kept his eyes from giving back the gaze Was the lamp tilted near them in his hand. What kept him from remembering what it was That brought him to that creaking room was age. He stood with barrels round him—at a loss. And having scared the cellar under him In clomping there, he scared it once again In c...
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11 months ago
5 minutes

Saturday Morning Words + Coffee
Letter from Admiral Morrison about His Son Jim Morrison
In March 1969, Doors singer Jim Morrison was charged with obscenity and indecent exposure stemming from an incident at a concert in Miami, FL. Prior to sentencing, the court asked his father for a letter describing Jim's character and situation. This was his response. Photo: Jim Morrison and his father aboard the USS Bon Homme Richard prior to Jim's fame.
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1 year ago
9 minutes

Saturday Morning Words + Coffee
Clare Harner - Immortality
Reading Clare Harner's Immortality, a beautiful poem for a eulogy. Other authors have tried to pass it off as their own, so I talk about that, too. Do not stand By my grave, and weep. I am not there, I do not sleep— I am the thousand winds that blow I am the diamond glints in snow I am the sunlight on ripened grain, I am the gentle, autumn rain. As you awake with morning’s hush, I am the swift, up-fling...
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1 year ago
5 minutes

Saturday Morning Words + Coffee
The Master Speed - Robert Frost
Saturday Morning Words and Coffee. Taking a look at Robert Frost's The Master Speed. No speed of wind or water rushing by But you have speed far greater. You can climb Back up a stream of radiance to the sky, And back through history up the stream of time. And you were given this swiftness, not for haste Nor chiefly that you may go where you will, But in the rush of everything to waste, That you may have the power of standing still- Off any still or moving thing you say. Two such as you with...
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2 years ago
6 minutes

Saturday Morning Words + Coffee
Ozymandias - Percy Bysshe Shelley
Reading Ozymandias. What does it teach us about Kings of Kings and hubris? That the sand reclaims everything eventually. I met a traveller from an antique land, Who said—“Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert. . . . Near them, on the sand, Half sunk a shattered visage lies, whose frown, And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command, Tell that its sculptor well those passions read Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things, The hand that mocked them, and the heart th...
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3 years ago
5 minutes

Saturday Morning Words + Coffee
Huckleberry Finn - Chapter 22 - Mark Twain
Reading chapter 22 from The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and talking about the dangers of the mob mentality.
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3 years ago
10 minutes

Saturday Morning Words + Coffee
William Butler Yeats - A Coat
Saturday morning words and coffee. Reading Yeats' "A Coat" and talking abut reappraising our own work as we go through life. Is it time to "strip down" and simplify? Yeats might tell you, "Yes."
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3 years ago
3 minutes

Saturday Morning Words + Coffee
The Road Not Taken - Robert Frost
Robert Frost is a great poet and, in a roundabout way, helped me to take a better road by dropping English lit. Have a decision to make on which path to take? I talk about that here.
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3 years ago
8 minutes

Saturday Morning Words + Coffee
The Darkling Thrush - Thomas Hardy
Saturday morning words and coffee. Reading Thomas Hardy's poem from a New Year's Day many years ago. I leant upon a coppice gate When Frost was spectre-grey, And Winter's dregs made desolate The weakening eye of day. The tangled bine-stems scored the sky Like strings of broken lyres, And all mankind that haunted nigh Had sought their household fires. The land's sharp features seemed to be &nbs...
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3 years ago
7 minutes

Saturday Morning Words + Coffee
Jabberwocky - Lewis Carroll
Jabberwocky is a poem from Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking-Glass. It's called a "nonsense poem" because it uses made up words that you can't find in the dictionary. In this podcast episode, I read the poem and talk about what it might mean. 'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves Did gyre and gimble in the wabe; All mimsy were the borogoves, And the mome raths outgrabe. "Beware the Jabberwock, my son! The jaws that bite, the claws that catch! Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun The frumious Ba...
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3 years ago
5 minutes

Saturday Morning Words + Coffee
Moby Dick - Excerpt - The Funeral
Reading Chapter 69 - The Funeral from Moby Dick. Do you believe in ghosts, my friend?
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4 years ago
9 minutes

Saturday Morning Words + Coffee
The Odyssey - Excerpt - Argos Recognizes Odysseus
Reading a selection from The Odyssey. A 3,000-year-old tale of a dog's loyalty. 'This dog,' answered Eumaeus, 'belonged to him who has died in a far country. If he were what he was when Odysseus left for Troy, he would soon show you what he could do. There was not a wild beast in the forest that could get away from him when he was once on its tracks. But now he has fallen on evil times, for his master is dead and gone, and the women take no care of him. Servants never do their work whe...
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4 years ago
7 minutes

Saturday Morning Words + Coffee
The Passionate Shepherd to His Love - Christopher Marlowe
Time for some Christopher Marlowe. Come live with me and be my love, And we will all the pleasures prove, That Valleys, groves, hills, and fields, Woods, or steepy mountain yields. And we will sit upon the Rocks, Seeing the Shepherds feed their flocks, By shallow Rivers to whose falls Melodious birds sing Madrigals. And I will make thee beds of Roses And a thousand fragrant posies, A cap of flowers, and a kirtle Embroidered all with leaves of Myrtle; A gown made of the finest wool Whic...
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4 years ago
8 minutes

Saturday Morning Words + Coffee
Nothing Gold Can Stay - Robert Frost
Reading and talking about Nothing Gold Can Stay by Robert Frost. Nature’s first green is gold, Her hardest hue to hold. Her early leaf’s a flower; But only so an hour. Then leaf subsides to leaf. So Eden sank to grief, So dawn goes down to day. Nothing gold can stay.
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4 years ago
7 minutes

Saturday Morning Words + Coffee
The Patriot - Robert Browning
Looking at Robert Browning's The Patriot. Beware fleeting glory. Artwork: Washington Crossing The Delaware by Emanuel Leutze. I It was roses, roses, all the way, With myrtle mixed in my path like mad: The house-roofs seemed to heave and sway, The church-spires flamed, such flags they had, A year ago on this very day. II The air broke into a mist with bells, The old walls rocked with the crowds and cries. Had I said, ‘Good folks, mere noise repels - But give me your sun from yonder skies!’ Th...
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4 years ago
8 minutes

Saturday Morning Words + Coffee
Patience Taught By Nature - Elizabeth Barrett Browning
My neighbour's dumb dog makes me seek advice on patience from Elizabeth Barrett Browning.
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4 years ago
5 minutes

Saturday Morning Words + Coffee
Shall I Compare Thee To A Summer's Day? William Shakespeare
Saturday morning words and coffee. Taking a look at William Shakespeare's Shall I Compare Thee To A Summer's Day? Artwork: Summer is icumen in, 1902, Herbert Arnould Olivier Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate. Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summer’s lease hath all too short a date. Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines, And often is his gold complexion dimmed; And every fair from fair sometime declines, By chance, or nature’...
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4 years ago
6 minutes

Saturday Morning Words + Coffee
Break, Break, Break - Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Turning to Victorian poetry for Victoria Day weekend in Canada. Looking at Tennyson's elegy to a lost friend: Break, Break, Break. Artwork: The Wave by Pierre-Auguste Renoir. Break, break, break, On thy cold gray stones, O Sea! And I would that my tongue could utter The thoughts that arise in me. O, well for the fisherman's boy, That he shouts with his sister at play! O, well for the sailor lad, That he sings in his boat on the bay! And the stately ships go on To their haven under the hill...
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4 years ago
7 minutes

Saturday Morning Words + Coffee
The Tyger - William Blake
Reading The Tyger and talking about the wild things.
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4 years ago
6 minutes

Saturday Morning Words + Coffee
Having a look at Frank O'Hara's poem Lana Turner Has Collapsed. Lana Turner has collapsed! I was trotting along and suddenly it started raining and snowing and you said it was hailing but hailing hits you on the head hard so it was really snowing and raining and I was in such a hurry to meet you but the traffic was acting exactly like the sky and suddenly I see a headline LANA TURNER HAS COLLAPSED! there is no snow in Hollywood there is no rain in California I have been to lots of parties and...