The Poetry Show: Peace March in Verse

 

 

Enlighten Radio Presents

 

Front Lines Poetic Testimony

 

 

Janet selects poems primarily from and about the Middle East. The featured poem is addressed to all children locked in conflict zones.

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

Hosts: Janet Harrison, John Case

This Episode Recorded June 18, 2025

For All Children

by Andréana Elise

 

For all children in conflict zones
by Andréana Elise
Dear One,
I love you more than you know.
In fact, my soul flies to you each night,
sitting beside you as you sleep,
holding your hand
so you will not be afraid.
Then I fly to the grown ups
and tell them what I saw–
their nightmares
inflicted on you.
I hold up a mirror
and show them
your face.
Dear one,
I see you, running free and happy
playing football and swimming in the sea.
I see you at school, learning and growing,
clean water to drink, good food to eat.
I see you, happy and at peace,
in your own bodies, lands and minds.
It might not feel like it, but there’s a place
in this world where you belong,
a place with your name.
Each night, we meet in soul space–
long lost friends, racing to hug and kiss each other,
never leaving, never separate, ever again.
I embrace you across continents,
imagining you here, curled in soft blankets,
drinking tea and sharing stories.
Just you and me.
When threats and pain are loud on all sides,
come, sit with me,
under this shady tree.
My love is free and soft
as rain.

 

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The Poetry Show: 7/2/2025: Scottish Moonlight

 

 

Enlighten Radio Presents 

Moon Fishing from the Highlanders 

The Moon lingers longer over Scotland? -- Edwwin Morgan, Claire Askew, Carol Ann Duffy, Robert Burns, Jacob Polley, JL Williams

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

Hosts: Janet Harrison, John Case

This Episode Recorded July 2, 2025

I am the Moon. You are the Man on me.

by Claire Askew

 

Tonight, I am white and full.
My surface is all curves
and craters, but you don’t mind.
You have travelled alone through the dark,
through the vacuum of dark;
training your hands for this task,
building imaginary engines.
This is the kind of territory you were born
to navigate. You know by heart
every treacherous route
through these white dunes;
you have drawn maps of every scar,
and you sense storms.
Your compass does not work here,
but you are sexy
in your spaceman suit.
We twirl giddily, in orbit
around the days, the months.
You are wary of my high tides –
I am your escape-pod.
A familiar world spins below,
tracked by the beam of your telescope;
we shudder at passing asteroids,
send messages home by satellite.
Tonight, I am white and full.
You are the man on me,
and I am the moon.

 

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Paris on the Potomac: Shame!

 

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Paris on the Potomac: Shame!

Democracy Alert: Jefferson County Development Commission Cutting Public Comment

 

 

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

Hosts: Karen Valentine, John Case

A. Lincoln: “...take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion—that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain—that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom—and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.”

This Episode Recorded July 4, 1776 at the Red Caboose Studio, Harpers Ferry, WV

 

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