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The Poetry Show: Winter Birds Two

 
 
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Winter Birds TWO
 
 
More Winter Bird Poems: Thomas Hardy headlines with "The Darkling Thrush"
Broadcast LIVE Wednesdays, 10 AM on https://player.enlightenradio.org
Hosts: Janet Harrison, John Case
This Episode Recorded 1/17/2024
The Darkling Thrush
by Thomas Hardy
 
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 The Century's corpse outleant, His crypt the cloudy canopy, The wind his death-lament. The ancient pulse of germ and birth Was shrunken hard and dry, And every spirit upon earth Seemed fervourless as I.
At once a voice arose among The bleak twigs overhead In a full-hearted evensong Of joy illimited; An aged thrush, frail, gaunt, and small, In blast-beruffled plume, Had chosen thus to fling his soul Upon the growing gloom.
So little cause for carolings Of such ecstatic sound Was written on terrestrial things Afar or nigh around, That I could think there trembled through His happy good-night air Some blessed Hope, whereof he knew And I was unaware.
 
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Winners and Losers: The Return of Joe Gray!

 
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Winners and Losers: The Return of Joe Gray!
Ceasefire! -- Achilles Renounces War -- "I just died. that's all.."
acc. to B. Dylan
 
 
Confusion Reigns
 
Broadcasts LIVE, Fridays, 7:30ish AM Eastern
Hosts: Karen Valentine, John Case
 
Joe Gray
Karen and John welcome Joe Gray, a former WSHC compatriot, back to the Eastern Panhandle. Other matters: Lucia Valentine's campaign1 Ceasefire!, Is Bill Gates going to buy WV? Time to reconsider communism? What's to Eat?
This Episode Recorded 1/12/2024 at the Red Caboose Studio, Harpers Ferry, WV
 
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The Poetry Show: Winter Poems

 
 
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How Come They Stick Around?
 
 
Jane Hirschfield,  Robert Frost, abd nire
Broadcast LIVE Wednesdays, 10 AM on https://player.enlightenradio.org
Hosts: Janet Harrison, John Case
This Episode Recorded 1/10/2024
Weird Bird
by Shel Silverstein
 
Birds are flyin' south for winter.Here's the Weird-Bird headin' north,Wings a-flappin', beak a-chatterin',Cold head bobbin' back 'n' forth.He says, "It's not that I like iceOr freezin' winds and snowy ground.It's just sometimes it's kind of niceTo be the only bird in town."
 
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Sports Attack: From the Turd Sandwich Cafe

 
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Sports Attack: From the Turd Sandwich Cafe
AI Rewards and Punishments For Umpires
 
 
Broadcasts LIVE, Mondays, 7:30-ish AM, Eastern
Hosts: Mike Cuccherini, John Case
In the tradition of Emile Zola's remedy for having to work in horrific, humiliating, inane, or dehumanizing environments, the Turd Sandwich Cafe offers the best available medicines to combat depression, anxiety, pessimism, and dread. After our invigorating breakfast, nothing will bother you the rest of the day.
This Episode Recorded 1/8/2024 at the Red Caboose Studio, Harpers Ferry, WV
 
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Winners and Losers: Karen and John attend the Jefferson County Commission Meeting.

 
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Winners and Losers: Karen and John attend the Jefferson County Commission Meeting.
OUCH. "Laughingstock"
 
 
Winners and Losers broadcasts live Fridays at 7:30 ISH, Eastern time
Hosts: Karen Valentine, John Case
We observed dysfunctional government, at the County level, in the extreme. OUCH!! OUCH!!
This Episode Recorded 1/5/2024 at the Red Caboose Studio, Harpers Ferry, WV
 
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Enlighten Radio: The Storytelling Hour: January 15: Traditional Tales on Martin Luther King's Birthday

Enlighten Radio: The Storytelling Hour: January 8: Traditional Tales

The Poetry Show -- The New Year Rises -- 2024

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"...our hopes such as they are invisible before us..."
 
 
Some of our favorite poets on the New Year: Naomi Shihab Nye, Jane Hirshfield, W S Merwin, and Denise Levertov.
Broadcast LIVE Wednesdays, 10 AM on https://player.enlightenradio.org
Hosts: Janet Harrison, John Case
This Episode Recorded 01/03/2024
To the New Year
by WS Merwin
 
With what stillness at last you appear in the valley your first sunlight reaching down to touch the tips of a few high leaves that do not stir as though they had not noticed and did not know you at all then the voice of a dove calls from far away in itself to the hush of the morning so this is the sound of you here and now whether or not anyone hears it this is where we have come with our age our knowledge such as it is and our hopes such as they are invisible before us untouched and still possible
 
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