The Poetry Show: Moon Shadows

 

 

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Moonlight Twixt Twilight and Starlight

 

 

As you might expect, moon poems abound, and winter ones outnumber the harvest ones, and appear neck and neck with Junes. Lisel Mueller, Jane Toomer, E. E. Cummings, Padraig O Tuama, Dylan Thomas and Robert Hayden traverse the imagination twixt twilight and starlight, in the moon's shadows.

Broadcast LIVE Wednesdays, 10 AM on https://player.enlightenradio.org

Hosts: Janet Harrison, John Case

This Episode Recorded Jan 23, 2025

Who Kknows If the Moon...

by ee cummings

 

who knows if the moon's
a balloon, coming out of a keen city
in the sky

filled with pretty people?
(and if you and i should
get into it,

if they
should take me and take you into their balloon.
why then
we'd go up higher with all the pretty people
than houses and steeples and clouds:
go sailing
away and away sailing into a keen
city which nobody's ever visited, where

always
it's
Spring) and everyone's
in love and flowers pick themselves

 

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Labor Beat Radio: The WV Legislative Session -- Worker and Retiree Concerns

 

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Labor Beat Radio: The WV Legislative Session -- Worker and Retiree Concerns

Medicaid, PEIA coverage, Public Education -- The Big Step Back?

 

 

Broadcast LIVE Tuesdays, 10 AM Eastern Time at player.enlightenradio.org

Hosts: John Case, JB Christensen

 

Special Guest: Frank Caputo

Description: Labor Beat welcomes special guest Frank Caputo, a board member of the WV Alliance for Retired Americans and a longtime member and leader of the American Federation of Teachers in West Virginia. Whats at stake for workers and retirees in the upcoming WV legislative session with a Republican super-majority.

This Episode Recorded Jan 21, 2025 at the Red Caboose Studio, Harpers Ferry, WV

 

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The Last Stop Cafe: Commanders Win, Fascism Begins

 

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The Last Stop Cafe: Commanders Win, Fascism Begins

Democracy made its last stop at the Cafe, before an Acid Trip to the Mojave Desert

 

 

Broadcasts LIVE, Mondays, 7:30 AM Eastern

Hosts: Mike Cuccherini, John Case, James Boyd

Jaydon Daniels is showing how the game is played. Billionaires Praise Trump's 'Vision'

This Episode Recorded Jan 20, 2025 at the Red Caboose Studio, Harpers Ferry, WV

 

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Paris on the Potomac: the NAACP Freedom Trail Interview

 

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Paris on the Potomac
aka: The Winners and Losers Radio Program

The 2025 Jefferson County Freedom Trail March: Jan 19, 2025, 1:30 PM, Charles Town Library

 

 

Broadcast LIVE Fridays, 7:30 AM Eastern on player.enlightenradio.org

Hosts: Karen Valentine, John Case

 

Special Guest: Donaldson Twyman

John and Karen welcome Mr. Donaldson Twyman, newly elected president of the Jefferson County NAACP chapter. He succeeds George Rutherford, who served as president for 50 years. Mr. Twyman introduces this years memorial Freedom Trail March, honoring the spirit and example of Dr. Martin Luther King. Whether Wind, Snow, or Freezing Cold, the march for Hope will take place! 1: 30 PM Sunday, Jan 19, at the Library in Charles Town, WV. Dress Warmly!

This Episode Recorded Jan 17, 2025 at the Red Caboose Studio, Harpers Ferry, WV

 

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The Poetry Show: First Snow

 

 

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"in this stillness, starlight behind daylight wherever you gaze."

 

 

There is a universe of poetry on the subject of snow, and a large subset on "first snow". Haiku from Issa, Robert Frost, Mary Oliver, Eleanor Hammond, and more...

Broadcast LIVE Wednesdays, 10 AM on https://player.enlightenradio.org

Hosts: Janet Harrison, John Case

This Episode Recorded Jan. 15, 2025

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Winter Woods

By Eleanor Hammond

The winter wood is like a strong old man,
Grizzled, rugged, and gray,
With long white locks tattered by many storms.
He lifts gnarled arms defiant of the blasts,
And rears his old head proudly
Under the menace of the winter sky.

 
from Family Friend Poems 

 

First Snow Haiku

by Kobayashi Issa

the year's first snow
all trampled...
by the crows

 

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The Last Stop Cafe: The LA Fire Moves East

 

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The Last Stop Cafe: The LA Fire Moves East

 

 

A Tribute to Jayden Daniels

 

Broadcasts LIVE, Mondays, 7:30 AM Eastern

Hosts: John Case, Mike Cuccherini, James Boyd

Mike nails the Commanders. He has been right all along. 70 yrs of growth -- then natures revenge on California capitalism

This Episode Recorded Jan 13, 2025 at the Red Caboose Studio, Harpers Ferry, WV

 

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The Poetry Show -- Epiphanies: Journeys of the Magi

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The Shining Star and God's Watchful Eye

 

 

The poetry of journeys has a long history and assumes many forms, some long and some short. TS Eliot, Mary Oliver, Nikki Giovanni, Joseph Brodsky, Rabindranath Tagore share their Hellos and Farewells

Wednesdays 10 AM on player.enlightenradio.org

Hosts: Janet Harrison, John Case

This Episode Recorded Wednesday, Jan 8, 2025

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Journey

by Mary Oliver

One day you finally knew
what you had to do, and began,
though the voices around you
kept shouting
their bad advice—
though the whole house
began to tremble
and you felt the old tug
at your ankles.
"Mend my life!"
each voice cried.
But you didn't stop.
You knew what you had to do,
though the wind pried
with its stiff fingers
at the very foundations,
though their melancholy
was terrible.
It was already late
enough, and a wild night,
and the road full of fallen
branches and stones.
But little by little,
as you left their voices behind,
the stars began to burn
through the sheets of clouds,
and there was a new voice
which you slowly
recognized as your own,
that kept you company
as you strode deeper and deeper
into the world,
determined to do
the only thing you could do—
determined to save
the only life you could save.

 

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