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Take a little break from the sound and fury.
Poems by Buff Whitman-Bradley
The painting is by Wendy Goldberg for the cover of my
forthcoming book, Owl Talk.
Phineas Stolyavitch wonderfully performs Preludes 1,2,5,6, by Manuel Ponce.
The drawing is by Rupert Peene.
What to say . . . ? Two poems about our country in these times.
Poems by Buff Whitman-Bradley
Drawing by Rupert Peene
Ovines and bovines, tra-la tra-la
Poems by Buff Whitman-Bradley
Drawing by Rupert Peene
Guitarist Phineas Stolyavitch plays his arrangement of a Guatemalan folk tune.
Drawing by Rupert Peene
Aural enchantment
Phineas Stolyavitch performs another beauty.
Photo, Laguna grasses, by Arturo Lexicon
Two little boys, the written language of cows
Poems by Buff Whitman-Bradley
Drawing by Rupert Peene
Reluctant to write, poked with a needle
Poems by Buff Whitman-Bradley
Drawing by Rupert Peene
Existential musings, imagining a house
Poems by Buff Whitman-Bradley
Drawing by Rupert Peene
Spring, but don't brag
Poems by Buff Whitman-Bradley
Photo by Walt McCarthy, Winter Window, copyright 2024
Arresting the perpetrator, ignored by the sheep
Poems by Buff Whitman-Bradley
Drawing by Rupert Peene
Another beautiful interlude performed by guitarist Phineas Stolyavitch.
The copyrighted photo is by Walt McCarthy
How sweet it is!
Poem by Buff Whitman-Bradley
Photo by Arturo Lexicon
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No big deal
Poems and paper cutout by Buff Whitman-Bradley
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56 years ago
Poem and paper cutout by Buff Whitman-Bradley
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In this musical interlude, guitarist Phineas Stolyavitch plays Ballet by Michael Praetorius
Art by Buff Whitman-Bradley
Episode of oddness, under-appreciated refuse workers
Poems by Buff Whitman-Bradley
Drawing by Rupert Peene
Phineas Stolyavitch performs an up-tempo version of Bach's Sarabande in B minor
Photo by S. Olivetti
January ambivalence, marshland beauty
Poems by Buff Whitman-Bradley
Photo by Tuzzie Kingclip
Marshland beauty, Covey of quails
Poems by Buff Whitman-Bradley
Photo by Tuzzie Kingclip
Stolyavitch plays Bach
Phineas Stolyavitch plays Sarabande in B minor by J.S. Bach,
in mourning for those killed in Gaza.
Photo by Tuzzie Kingclip
Ophthalmology, audiology, la la la
Poem by Buff Whitman-Bradley
Photo by Tuzzie Kingclip
Newfound longevity and a day of great beauty
Poems by Buff Whitman-Bradley
Photo by Peg Hunter
In this musical interlude, classical guitarist Phineas Stolyavitch plays a lovely piece by Manuel Ponce.
Image by Bix Fullerhooven
A climate-ological gunslinger, a befuddled traveler
Poems by Buff Whitman-Bradley
Photo by Bix Fullerhooven
A great performance and a guest with a different opinion
Poems by Buff Whitman-Bradley and Cynthia Whitman Bradley
Photo by Tuzzie Kingclip
In this musical interlude, guitarist Phineas Stolyavitch plays Vals Venezolano #3 by Antonio Laro.
Photo by Bix Fullerhooven
In this musical interlude, guitarist Phineas Stolyavitch performs "Campo," by Abel Carlevaro.
Photo by Bix Fullerhooven
Editing the weather and an evolutionary oddity
Poems by Buff Whitman-Bradley
Photo by Peg Hunter
Scrawling crows and the unusual use of a word
Poems by Buff Whitman-Bradley
Photo by Peg Hunter
My new book of 25 years of protest and social justice poems, And What Will We Sing?, is available from Kelsaybooks.com or Amazon
Guitarist Phineas Stolyavitch performs El Sueño de la Muñequita, by Augustin Barrios.
Photo by Peg Hunter
Pond life, identifying flowers, upsidedown-ness
Poems by Buff Whitman-Bradley
Photo by Bix Fullerhooven
The ideas come and go; from the midst of the pandemic
Poems by Buff Whitman-Bradley
Photo by Cynthia Bradley
A man's best buddy; pages on the run
Poems by Buff Whitman-Bradley
Photo by Tuzzie Kingklip
More beautiful music from our good friend Phineas Stolyavitch:
Españoleta by Gaspar Sanz
Drawing by Rupert Peene
A diminutive cartographer goes to work
Poem by Buff Whitman-Bradley
Drawing by Freya Norgeot (poem tr. by David Hinton)
Music composed by Sylvius Leopold Weiss
Performed by Phineas Stolyavitch
Photo by Peg Hunter
I wrote this poem yesterday (5/24/22) after learning about the murder of 19 school children and 2 adults in a school in Uvalde, Texas.
Buff Whitman-Bradley
Photo by Peg Hunter
Sometimes houses are not just houses
Poem by Buff Whitman-Bradley
Drawing by Rupert Peene
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Celebrating springtime and pencils
Poems by Buff Whitman-Bradley
Photo by Peg Hunter
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Guitarist Phineas Stolyavitch plays Melancholy Galliard by John Downland.
Photo by Bix Fullerhooven
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A moment of clarity and a wonderful shirt
(NOTE: I'm going to start including poems in this podcast that are not necessarily about aging. I hope you approve.)
Poems by Buff Whitman-Bradley
Photo by Peg Hunter
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One way to cope . . .
Poem by Buff Whitman-Bradley
Photo by Bix Fullerhooven
You can order my new book, The Heron Could Be Lost, from finishinglinepress.com
An old man gets older
Poem by Buff Whitman-Bradley
Drawing by Rupert Peene
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Guitarist Phineas Stolyavitch plays Henry Mancini's theme from the film Sunflower.
Photo by Peg Hunter
A couple of memories from boyhood
Poems by Buff Whitman-Bradley
Photo by Bix Fullerhooven
A granddaughter speaks the truth; recalling summer jobs
Poems by Buff Whitman-Bradley
Drawing by Rupert Peene
An impressive feat and staying connected
Poems by Buff Whitman-Bradley
Drawing by Rupert Peene
When memory visits and a powerful recollection
Poems by Buff Whitman-Bradley
Drawing by Nina Norgeot
Inspecting the joints, reflections in the gloaming
Poems by Buff Whitman-Bradley
Photo by Tuzzie Kingclip
Guitarist Phineas Stolyavitch performs Milonga by Jorge Cardoso.
Drawing by Fergus Cilic
An old, old poet; an inner museum
Poems by Buff Whitman-Bradley
Photo by Bix Fullerhooven
Imaginative listening and a brilliant idea
Poems by Buff Whitman-Bradley
Photo by Tuzzie Kingclip
Kindergarten heroics, a mockingbird of memory
Poems by Buff Whitman-Bradley
Drawing by Fergus Cilic
Phineas Stolyavitch performs a Republican song from the Spanish Civil War, based on "Los Cuatro Muleros" by Federico Garcia Lorca. (Arr. P. Stolyavitch)
Where to find me, and retired turtles
Poems by Buff Whitman-Bradley
Photo by Tuzzie Kingclip
A troubling lapse, a day in bed
Poems by Buff Whitman-Bradley
Photo by Bix Fullerhooven
An update on an old friend from nursery rhyme days
Poem by Buff Whitman-Bradley
Photo by Tuzzie Kingclip
Guitarist Phineas Stolyavitch plays a piece by Anibal Augusto Sardinha ("Garoto")
Photo by Bix Fullerhooven
Remembering the dead, remembering long-ago summers
Poems by Buff Whitman-Bradley
"Petal Portrait" by Nina and Leona Norgeot
Working a puzzle, revising plans
Poems by Buff Whitman-Bradley
Photo by Tuzzie Kingclip
A little pharmaceutical nostalgia
Prose by Buff Whitman-Bradley
Photo by Bix Fullerhooven
In this musical interlude, classical guitarist Phineas Stolyavitch plays a lovely waltz by A. Harris.
Photo by Bix Fullerhooven
(You can order my new book, At the Driveway Guitar Sale: Poems on Aging, Memory, Mortality, from mainstreetragbookstore.com)
Poem by Buff Whitman-Bradley
Photo by Tuzzie Kingclip
You can order my new book, At the Driveway Guitar Sale, from
mainstreetragbookstore.com