Melodically Challenged

1 day ago

The garden suggests there might be a place where we can meet nature halfway. Michael Pollan

Make sure you go all the way to a radio Tuesday night (THAT'S TOMORROW!!!) to hear our show Down the Garden Path at 7pm ET 0n @album88atlanta that's 88.5 WRAS - Album 88. Here are some lines from a poem you'll hear in the show:

From “Shooting Turtles” by Sarah Wetzel

My husband, who spent two years guarding a hut
on the border, dreams the same dream.
In it, one of his soldiers steps from behind a barrier,
begins removing his uniform. Sometimes I recognize
the soldier, he says, but I never stop him as he unbuckles
his Kevlar vest, unbuttons his gray green shirt and pants to expose
his body to the dust and breeze. In the dream,
the soldier winks, then starts running
toward the enemy. Some mornings,
my husband tells me, I’m sure it happened. ...

Video by Dean Marston from Pixabay

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Melodically Challenged

2 days ago

A vegetable garden in the beginning looks so promising and then after all little by little it grows nothing but vegetables, nothing, nothing but vegetables. Gertrude Stein

Gertrude! You are not going to want to miss our show Down the Garden Path this Tuesday at 7pm ET on @album88atlanta that's 88.5 WRAS - Album 88. Here are some lines from a poem you'll hear in the show:

From “Two Moments with Strangers” by Charlotte Matthews

The day I walk all ten miles
of the Ridge Road,
I stop to ask for water from a man
whose tended garden blooms
against the chipped metal of his trailer
where his wife shifts about in the heat
praying that a storm will rise
over the near mountains.
The water is sweet and I thank him.
Red poplin curtains wave back
and forth in a fan’s path.
Soon, the man promises, soon
your baby will be born
and it will be a girl
as you have wished so hard for. ...

Video by klimkin from Pixabay

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Melodically Challenged

3 days ago

Plant and your spouse plants with you; weed and you weed alone. Jean-Jacques Rousseau

So true, Jean, but know that our show Down the Garden Path will air this Tuesday at 7pm ET on 88.5 WRAS - Album 88 that's @album88atlanta. Here are some lines from a poem you'll hear in the show:

From “In Medias Res” by Anne Shaw

Before the day grows hot, she wakes to the drone
of bees. She fastens the braid of her leaving, hooks
her shadow back to the wall like a coat.
She counts the pieces of dreams: ten black birds
and a coin. Coastline where a blue house
waits with its rooms like hearts.
Now when she hears them talk
she knows how the story will end. How can she leave
this orchard, embroidered with loss?
Things do not even have names
other than those she gives them. Light threads her veins
like a needle. She knows no tense
for this. …

Video by Piyapong Saydaung from Pixabay

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Melodically Challenged

4 days ago

Alfred Austin said, “The glory of gardening: hands in the dirt, head in the sun, heart with nature. To nurture a garden is to feed not just the body, but the soul. Welcome to another edition of melodically challenged when this week, our poets walk us through the garden in poetry and song. You’ll hear poetry by Anne Shaw, Tony Barnstone, Chloe Honum, Sean Hill, and Miranda Field among others and music by Scott Holmes, Mystery Pills, Les Hayden, Slainte, and Petrochine among others. We’re going to lead you down the garden path, this week on melodically challenged, where yesterday’s poetry comes alive and today’s poetry rocks!

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Melodically Challenged

7 days ago

IT'S TIME! To hear SPRING CLEANING on Album 88 - Georgia State University's College Radio Station - Atlanta beginning at 7pm EST, that's 88.5 on your FM dial here in town, and if you're out of town click on tunein.com/radio/Album-88-885-s225441/�or go to the GSU or WRAS websites and click on LISTEN. Dr. K is in the booth so give her a call at (404) 413-9727, that's (404) 413-WRAS. And stay tuned for our GOIN' GREEN LIVE!!!! show beginning at 8pm.���

Video by Milan Wulf from Pixabay

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Melodically Challenged

1 week ago

Let everyone sweep in front of his own door, and the whole world will be clean. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

You said it Johann, and by the way, don't miss our show Spring Cleaning this Tuesday (THAT'S TOMORROW!!!) at 7pm ET on @album88atlanta, that's 88.5 WRAS - Album 88. Here are some lines from a poem you'll hear in the show:

From “The Well-Groomed Otter Is Extremely Buoyant” by R. Erica Doyle

In this kind of sea, floating really matters.
The well-groomed otter is a tail above the others.

Her particular sheen, the curve of her brown,
the arch of her back, the clams that she cracks –

to be groomed is the key to survive in this sea.
She smooths each natty lump down, shines clean

as a glass, runs each hair and black toe
like a woman in the morning

takes hot iron, tweezes chin, tugs on the underwire
slips on the heels, to arch the calf, raise the rump higher; …

Video by BreakDownPictures from Pixabay

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Melodically Challenged

1 week ago

You may write me down in history with your bitter, twisted lines. You may trod me in the very dirt, but still, like dust, I'll rise. Maya Angelou

Don't miss our show Spring Cleaning next Tuesday at 7pm ET on @album88atlanta that's 88.5 WRAS - Album 88.Here are some lines from a poem you'll hear in the show:

From “The Carpenter Bee” by Sean Nevin

Black and polished
with light, it treads the air
beneath the arched soffits
of our house, where
this morning I smeared,
with a clean metal blade,
a dollop of putty
over the bullet-sized hole
it bore into the wood.
I watched, for an hour
that bee, tap-tap-tapping
like the severed tip
of a cane groping
after what was lost, and
like that, I saw again
the frostbitten toe
the medics let thaw,
then amputated as I slept
through a gauze
of morphine. ...

Video by Life-Of-Vids from Pixabay

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