Wake to Words and Brew Some Coffee (December 28, 2025)

 

Today's poetry is by the longago poet Hanshan.

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Wake to Words and Brew Some Coffee: September 7, 2025

 Hi Friends! It has been a hot minute since our last meeting of Wake to Words. Since then, Facebook changed its video storage policy, which means, in short, that all previous videos of our time together have been deleted, and forthcoming videos will live for thirty days before being deleted. 

This is neither here nor there in the grand scheme. Here are three poems to enjoy for the next thirty days: 

Poems 9/7/25:

- The Meeting by Wendell Berry (from his book The Peace of Wild Things)

- 1918 by Ostap Slyvynsky, tr. by Anton Tenser and Tatiana Filimonova (from In The Hour of War: Poetry from Ukraine)

- The Nude Swim by Anne Sexton (from her book Love Poems)

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🠊 More Wake to Words here: http://www.erinpringle.com/p/wake-to-words-and-brew-some-coffee.html

🠊 Poetry sessions appear most every Sunday morning at https://www.facebook.com/erintpringle 

Wake to Words and Brew Some Coffee (April 13, 2025)

 

Poems: 

• Poem of a Houseboat Stranded in a Field by C.D. Wright (from her book Shallcross)
• The Old Elm Tree by the River by Wendell Berry (from his book The Peace of Wild Things)
• The Summer Day by Mary Oliver (from her book House of Light)

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🠊 More Wake to Words here: http://www.erinpringle.com/p/wake-to-words-and-brew-some-coffee.html

🠊 Poetry sessions appear most every Sunday morning at https://www.facebook.com/erintpringle 

Wake to Words and Brew Some Coffee (March 16, 2025)

 Friends! Several months have passed since our last session of Wake to Words and Brew Some Coffee. My dear friend Tim asked me the other day if I was done doing it, as he would stop checking if that were the case. That's when I realized that I had entered a lapse of silence that I didn't want to signal an end to our poetry gatherings. 

So, thanks to Tim for lighting the candle and holding it close to my elbow. And thanks to you, listeners, for checking back in and finding me again. That is often the way of life, isn't it? Welcome to all of us. I hope that you find something in today's poems to take with you in the coming days. 

Cheers, 

Erin

Poems:

• Not Early or Late by W.S. Merwin (from his book Garden Time)
• My Other Dark by W.S. Merwin (from his book Garden Time)
• The Peace of Wild Things by Wendell Berry (from his book The Peace of Wild Things)
• The Want of Peace by Wendell Berry (from his book The Peace of Wild Things)
• Two Watches by Mosab Abu Toha (from his book Forest of Noise)
• See the Kites? by Mosab Abu Toha (from his book Forest of Noise)

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🠊 More Wake to Words here: http://www.erinpringle.com/p/wake-to-words-and-brew-some-coffee.html

🠊 Poetry sessions appear most every Sunday morning at https://www.facebook.com/erintpringle