Omar Khayyam said, “Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life,” and that’s what this week’s melodically challenged is about: being happy. But just as Carl Jung advised, “The word ‘happy’ would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness,” the poems in this week’s show consider happiness from all sides. You’ll be on top of the world, walking on air, over the moon, in 7th heaven, on cloud nine, and happy as a lark this week on melodically challenged, where yesterday’s poetry comes alive and today’s poetry rocks!
Woman and Dog – Petra White
Ballad of the Mountain Turtle – Terry Kennedy
Tableau – James Richardson
Revision – Dan Albergotti
An Early Snow and Winter Comes Into Kilter – Anthony Deaton
Mackerel Sky Elegy – Marie Harris
Happy To Be Living – The Fresh and Onlys
Elegy for My Sadness – Chen Chen
After Words – Billy Ramsell
Birthday – Elena Medel
Ars Poetica #17 – Alexander Long
Rethinking Regret – Elaine Sexton
The Ear of a Happy Sailor – We Is Shore Dedicated
And Day Brought Back My Night – Geoffrey Brock
Prodigal Dog – Mary Crockett Hill
I Don’t Know How Many Souls You Have, My Feathered Fernando – Ariana-Sophia Kartsonis and Caleb Adler
This Handwriting – Matthew Zapruder
Even Happy Day – Lobo Loco
This Little Game – Matthew Zapruder
Happy Life – Ryan Andersen
Snowdonia – Priscilla Becker
Listening – Jane Hilberry
I Will Be A Happy Girl – Lyli Karolina Figueroa Rodriguez (read by Spencer Reece)
Happy Ending – Scott Holmes
Public Transportation – Elaine Sexton
Train Whistle – Jane Hilberry