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Be More Poet

Be More Poet

By: Sue Heatherington
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 Pause. See differently. Re-story... Words are amazing, and they shape how we see ourselves and the world around us. In this fortnightly podcast, Sue and her occasional guests explore a different way of seeing through poetry and the poetic from a little valley in South West Wales.Copyright 2024 Sue Heatherington Art Social Sciences
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  • Pausing to hear the wind

    Pausing to hear the wind
    Aug 16 2024

    This is a short episode to finish the series. It starts with an opportunity for a beautiful pause and concludes by listening to the songs on the wind.

    Rick Rubin’s words from The Creative Act: A Way of Being – “The work reveals itself as you go.” – has been my companion text for how Be More Poet is evolving… And I am grateful to you for joining me here.

    BEAUTIFUL PAUSEA most beautiful pause, pregnant with possibility tethered to the eternal now and the stretchiness of time, in ripples of fresh stillness and the breath of life.

    From A most beautiful pause

    SONGS ON THE WINDCarrying the song of the wind, not with words, but in breath open to aliveness, responsive to movement, and lifted in its presence. Will we join the flow in the rhythm of life, and find our voice in the songs that others long to hear?

    From Hearing songs on the wind

    My hope is that these words enable you to pause, see yourself and your world differently and discover more of the song – the story – that you are here to sing.

    Thanks for listening

    Sue Heatherington

    ~ from a little valley in South West Wales

    LINKS

    Sue Heatherington – personal website with daily poetic pauses, other words, and Be More Poet. You can also find me on LinkedIn and Twitter/X

    Production partner – Steve Heatherington at Good Podcasting Works

    Music: Classical 1, by Jonny S (Mixkit.co Classical-1-708)

    This podcast is a Waterside Voices production.
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    8 mins
  • How the light comes in

    How the light comes in
    Aug 2 2024

    A short meander through the phases of internal change in the company of ten poems and a few words from Leonard Cohen.

    Here are links to the blog posts where each of the poems appears (including beautiful photographs from the valley).

    PAUSE

    • Just Pause
    • Pause in This Place
    • Being Quiet

    SEE DIFFERENTLY

    • Angles of Light
    • Viewpoint
    • The Gift of Seeing Slant

    RE-STORY

    • The Song
    • Coming to Rest
    • The Long Arc
    • Dawning

    Thanks for listening

    Sue Heatherington

    ~ from a little valley in South West Wales

    LINKS

    Sue Heatherington – personal website with daily poetic pauses, other words, and Be More Poet. You can also find me on LinkedIn and Twitter/X

    Production partner – Steve Heatherington at Good Podcasting Works

    Music: Classical 1, by Jonny S (Mixkit.co Classical-1-708)

    This podcast is a Waterside Voices production.
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    14 mins
  • Pursuing our humanity

    Pursuing our humanity
    Jul 19 2024

    Time to pause and reflect on who we are and what we are becoming through the lens of a poem because seeing differently grows a new story.

    Tracing the emerging threads of humanity that were evident in the poetic pauses for peace in the last episode, I continued to muse and wrote a new poem:

    AM I READY TO BE HUMAN?
    Am I ready to be human, to embrace my multitudesand know that we are one,choosing to be fully presentbelonging to this time and place alone?
    Am I ready to enrolin the school of interdependency,letting go of my need to control,to get it right, or push emotions asidefor fear that they will undo me?
    Am I ready to be fully alive,paying attention to strong rootsthat nourish and sustain,and keep me supplein drought and storm?
    Am I ready to live this season,not deferring its entry or wishing it away,open to the curiosity of possibilities,the imagination of lifeand the courage of hope?
    Am I ready to be humanto play the part that only I can playwith humility, grace and joy,alongside you as we walk togetherin this messy and glorious world?
    Are we ready to be more human?

    You can find the original here: Are we ready to be human?

    Elizabeth Oldfield’s podcast is The Sacred, and her new book is Fully Alive: Tending to the Soul in Turbulent Times, Hodder & Stoughton, 2024

    Thanks for listening

    Sue Heatherington

    ~ from a little valley in South West Wales

    LINKS

    Sue Heatherington – personal website with daily poetic pauses, other words, and Be More Poet. You can also find me on LinkedIn and Twitter/X

    Production partner – Steve Heatherington at Good Podcasting Works

    Music: Classical 1, by Jonny S (Mixkit.co Classical-1-708)

    This podcast is a Waterside Voices production.
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    10 mins

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