Episode 23 Sylvia Plath READING POETRY - her poem “Tulips” - genius at work #NaPodPoMo 23/30

From Cork With Love - by Paul O'Mahony · Nov 26, 2025 · 11m

You hear the American poet Sylvia Plath read her poem “Tulips”. She wrote it while in hospital in 1961 after having her appendix removed. A friend sent her get-well flowers.

You also hear Paul O'Mahony's reading - contributed to #NaPodPoMo (the podcasting challenge led by jennifer navarrete

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TULIPS

The tulips are too excitable, it is winter here.

Look how white everything is, how quiet, how snowed-in.

I am learning peacefulness, lying by myself quietly

As the light lies on these white walls, this bed, these hands.

I am nobody; I have nothing to do with explosions.

I have given my name…