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Solstice · Backward Mutters Poetry Podcast

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  SPEAKER_00: You are listening to the Backward Mutters Poetry Podcast.
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  SPEAKER_00: Please visit online at backwardmutters.substack.com.
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  SPEAKER_00: There you can subscribe via your favorite podcast player and read the newsletter.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm your host, Randy Edwards.
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  SPEAKER_00: This sonnet is a tribute to all the Poetry Pub poets who have been such an
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  SPEAKER_00: encouragement and a blessing to me over many years.
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  SPEAKER_00: As this is the weekend of Rabbit Room's Hutchmoot Conference in Nashville,
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  SPEAKER_00: many of them are there in attendance,
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  SPEAKER_00: and I am missing them.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I am praying that they have a wonderfully inspiring weekend.
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  SPEAKER_00: As I mentioned,
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  SPEAKER_00: this is a tribute poem,
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  SPEAKER_00: and these poets whom I've come to know in lots of different circles have shown me
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  SPEAKER_00: great kindness and hospitality,
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  SPEAKER_00: and their generosity has been life-giving.
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  SPEAKER_00: I am so grateful to the Lord for them.
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  SPEAKER_00: So write on, poets, wherever it is that you are.
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  SPEAKER_00: Your words and enchantments are being used in the work of him who makes all things new.
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  SPEAKER_00: This poem is titled, Solstice.
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  SPEAKER_00: I trust you poets, whom I have heard, to dispel darkness with your words.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'll follow your lead to the darkest day.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'll hear and believe all you've to say about the ills of the wicked and bad,
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  SPEAKER_00: the grief of trauma and loss,
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  SPEAKER_00: the sad which you beat into golden-lined wells to bind together all the broken
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  SPEAKER_00: we've held.
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  SPEAKER_00: and I hope to be the first to cheer when gathered on blankets neath trees to hear
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  SPEAKER_00: all the poems you've prayed,
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  SPEAKER_00: how their mending worked to bring high summer,
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  SPEAKER_00: this never-ending solstice,
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  SPEAKER_00: where in the park the spirit's breeze blows healing that falls as light on the leaves.
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  SPEAKER_00: You've been listening to the Backward Mudders Poetry Podcast.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm Randy Edwards.
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  SPEAKER_00: Thank you for listening.