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.

From A most beautiful pause

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.

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.

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:

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.

Using a poem to explore wild hope and its outworking here in a little valley in South West Wales.

You can read the poem in its original form on my blog: The invitation of wild hope

Thanks for listening.

Sue Heatherington

~ from a little valley in South West Wales

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.

Using two poems to explore ‘becoming’ as a practice that releases and sustains life.

You can read the poems on my blog:

• Unfurling
• The warmth of becoming

The BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Arts captured behind-the-scenes for the creation of Antony Gormley’s Domain Field exhibition in 2003 on Google Arts & Culture

Thanks for listening.

Sue Heatherington

~ from a little valley in South West Wales

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.

A wonderful conversation crossing miles and landscapes from the flat Fens of Eastern England to the valleys of Wales, yet finding a place of rest. Will shares his journey with poetry and three poems that mark milestones of his soul’s travels.

Will’s three poems are:

• Swallowed by a vast sky
• The darkness of memory
• Your beauty

They can be found on his LinkTree page – The Will Johnson Journey - along with links to his work as a Courage Coach, Circle of Trust facilitator and his other writings.

We also talked about David Whyte’s poem ‘Start Close In’, from his book Essentials, Many Rivers Press, 2020. And Gabrielle Roth’s 5Rhythms.

Thanks for listening.

Sue Heatherington

~ from a little valley in South West Wales

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.

Is there a better word than slow? Exploring words and how they shape the world we see and the life we live using a short poem:

Read the poem on my blog: Lingering with the Intention of Life

Thanks for listening.

Sue Heatherington

~ from a little valley in South West Wales

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.