Hi! This year (2022), I've decided to share a poem on my blog and podcast and read it aloud. It's all a part of my quest to be brave and apparently the things that I'm scared about still include:
Thanks for being here with me and cheering me on, and I hope that you can become braver this year, too!
I say all that, but sometimes I feature a Grammy Barnard Poem. Grammy Barnard died at the age of 102 and I was the youngest child by a lot of her youngest child, so in my head she was always older. I think she was in her 70s when I was born.
These poems make me feel a bit closer to her, allow me to imagine her in her 30s. And I like being able to do that. So, here's a Grammy Barnard poem.
Hey, thanks for listening to Carrie Does Poems.
The music you hear is made available through the creative commons and it’s a bit of a shortened track from the fantastic Eric Van der Westen and the track is called "A Feather" and off the album The Crown Lobster Trilogy.
https://freemusicarchive.org/music/eric-van-der-westen/the-crown-lobster-trilogy-selection
I wrote a poem. I changed the title 8,000 times and I’m not happy with the amounts of “Her” in it, but here it...
Hi! This year (2022), I've decided to share a poem on my blog and podcast and read it aloud. It's all a part of...
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