Fortune cookies: tiny poems about your life
Today, I’m reading some tiny poems that I call fortune cookies. They are feather light. Maybe one of them is about your own life. You’ll know it when you hear it.
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Letting go of stuff
Listen to two poems about decluttering and letting go of stuff. They’re about the kind of transformation that needs to happen as old age approaches. It’s not just material things that clutter up your life. There’s a sort of psychic clutter that has also got to go.
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Poems about murder and personality types—a poetry reading
Hello again. I’m Rachel McAlpine bringing you a Friday night poetry reading. Tonight I’ve got a special treat: two poems about murder. Don’t worry, they’re not too scary. The main poem is about the Parker-Hulme murder of 1954.
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Poetry reading: 3 poems about homes
We’ve just emerged from lockdown in New Zealand after stamping out COVID-19, at least for now. So we’ve spent a lot of time inside our homes. These 3 poems are about some of the 25+ homes I’ve occupied over 80 years.
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Poetry reading: 3 strong women
Tonight we have three poems about three generations of strong women: my grandmother Mim, my mother Celia, and my big sister Jill.
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