Late Night Poetry: Recent Episodes
James Picard
This podcast celebrates my love of poetry. I’ve been writing poetry for about 4 1/2 decades and after years of hauling around boxes of poetry books and scatters of paper with poetry scribbled in both sides I decided to unload the boxes and share with you my poetic creations.
Randomly open pages from my book of poems. I share these with you on this melancholy evening.
This poem is from John Lennon’s second book titled “A Spaniard in the Works” printed in 1965. A great playful imaginative poem from an incredible artist who is dearly missed.
My love for Rembrandt has been with me throughout most of my life. An absolute genius who had a life full of incredible adversity, from a life of wealth and admiration to the death of his wife and children and ending up in absolute poverty. He never stopped creating, putting his entire life’s force into his work. This poem is inspired by this legend in the art world, Rembrandt van Rijn.
Insomnia is something that I’ve suffered from my entire life and is something so common among so many people these days. I’ll be reading three poems in this episode, each dealing with sleep. Enjoy.