Pop Poetry Podcast: Recent Episodes
Tim Hone and Robert Moschel
John Muller reads "The Song of Wandering Aengus" by William Butler Yeats
The Song of Wandering Aengus by William Butler Yeats
I went out to the hazel wood, Because a fire was in my head, And cut and peeled a hazel wand, And hooked a berry to a thread; And when white moths were on the wing, And moth-like stars were flickering out, I dropped the berry in a stream And caught a little silver trout.
When I had laid it on the floor I went to blow the fire a-flame, But something rustled on the floor, And someone called me by my name: It had become a glimmering girl With apple blossom in her hair Who called me by my name and ran And faded through the brightening air.
Though I am old with wandering Through hollow lands and hilly lands, I will find out where she has gone, And kiss her lips and take her hands; And walk among long dappled grass, And pluck till time and times are done, The silver apples of the moon, The golden apples of the sun.
Kathryn Ugoretz reads "Poem 670" by Emily Dickinson
Emily Dickinson 670
One need not be a Chamber -- to be Haunted-- One need not be a House -- The Brain has Corridors -- surpassing Material Place
Far safer, of a Midnight Meeting External Ghost Than its interior Confronting -- That Cooler Host
For safer, through an Abbey Gallop, The Stones a'chase -- Than Unarmed, one's a'self encounter -- In lonesome Place --
Ourself behind ourself, concealed -- Should startle most -- Assassin hid in our Apartment Be Horror's least.
The Body -- borrows a Revolver -- He bolts the Door -- O'erlooking a superior spectre -- Or More
voices to voices, lip to lip i swear (to noone everyone) constitutes undying; or whatever this and that petal confutes . . . to exist being a peculiar form of sleep
what's beyond logic happens beneath will; nor can these moments be translated: i say that even after April by God there is no excuse for May
- bring forth your flowers and machinery: sculpture and prose flowers guess and miss machinery is the more accurate, yes it delivers the goods, Heaven knows
(yet are we mindful, though not as yet awake, of ourselves which shout and cling, being for a little while and which easily break in spite of the best overseeing)
i mean that the blond absence of any program except last and always and first to live makes unimportant what i and you believe; not for philosophy does this rose give a damn . . .
bring on your fireworks, which are a mixed splendor of piston and pistil; very well provided an instant may be fixed so that it will not rub, like any other pastel.
(While you and i have lips and voices which are for kissing and to sing with who cares if some oneeyed son of a bitch invents an instrument to measure Spring with?
each dream nascitur, is not made . . .) why then to Hell with that: the other; this, since the thing perhaps is to eat flowers and not to be afraid.