This week’s episode. Please do comment below, or let us know your thoughts via any of the usual channels.
Invitation – Shel Silverstein
Just A Little Game To Play – Maz O’Connor
Believe – Ant Thomaz
Strange Birds – Tom Houston
Hares On The Mountain – Shirley Collins & Davy Graham
Bodysuit – Charm Of Finches
Falling Slowly – Glen Hansard & Markéta Irglová
There’s No Mountain – Glen Hansard
The Ballad Of Lucy Jordan – Marianne Faithfull
Boa Constrictor – Shel Silverstein
One’s On The Way – Loretta Lynn
Cocaine Walking, Booze Talking – Richard Thompson
POEM: ‘Fear no more the heat o’ the sun’ by William Shakespeare (from Cymbeline)
Seasons In The Sun – Rod McKuen
Wild Pendulum – Tom Houston
Hope – Peggy Seeger
Bad Girl – Shirley Collins & Davy Graham
Return To Fingal – Sam Grassie
Without Me, Just With You – Rab Noakes
Sweet Vinicombe Street – Brian Friel
Not Concerned – Boulder Fields
Shelter From The Storm – Bob Dylan
Secrets Still Remain – Katherine Priddy
Wolf Run – Tucker Zimmerman
Sing Me A Rainbow – Dr. Hook & the Medicine Show
Anteater – Shel Silverstein
You’re Always Welcome At Our House – Shel Silverstein
As We Lie On The Grass – Tom Houston
Pretty Saro – Shirley Collins & Davy Graham
More Than Bones – Juniper Three
Red Sky – Matt Carmichael
Still Crazy After All These Years – Paul Simon
On the subject of Komorebi, my late wife Rosemary wrote this short poem which she made the first poem in her first collection, I am a field:
Komorebi
The Japanese have a word
for my first wordless memory.
Helpless in my pram,
I gaze up at the sky,
delighting in the light
filtering through
flickering leaves,
tickling my eyes.
Just me and space,
no time or context.
It’s the first time I begin
hazily to understand
there is an out there
and a me,
a being behind the eyes.
My first verb.
My first poem.