A Poetic Picnic

i adore elizabeth gilbert and in on one of her podcast appearances she
read out loud this letter to her inner child and i saved it word by word.
such healing. such healings.

elizabeth gilbert

in today's episode i am reading philip larkin's poem "the trees".

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philip larkin

much love,
alice

this beautiful poem was written by erma bombeck and for what my knowledge about this she was dying of cancer when she wrote this. as i was told in the early 2000's she actually survived but it is very hard to find this version on the "internet" at the moment. so i am including a link to another version of the story.

anyways, i was read this poem when i was in college taking a poetry class and it moved me to tears.

much love
alice saga

i did find this version of the story
here: https://workingoncalm.com/bombecks-my-life-to-live-over/

today's episode is for those who are experiencing loss or have experienced loss with someone special. a reminder, a beautiful reminder of a truth.

the prose is written by  henry scott holland ( 1847-1918) , the  regius professor of divinity at the university of oxford.

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thanks and with love,
alice

henry scott holland

today's poem is by the perfectly perfect poet mary oliver. i hope you enjoy my reading and thoughts around it.

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merci and with love,
alice saga

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mary oliver
litcharts
(litcharts is where i find the analyses for some poems i read here)

dear listener: here comes an update of where i am at in this moment of time. and a fast sweep of my growing up and some other things which lead to where i am today embracing a sober life.
this was a very unscripted telling that i created the morning of july 15th 2022 while walking through epping forest. 
there is so much depth to go into that i could not go into today, but in the future there will be other episodes probably where we can go deeper.

in the next episode we will go back to poetry again. of course i do think that life is a long
beautiful poetry with all of life packed in to it. but still...next week there will be "poetry".

hope to hear your feedback:)

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be of such help for others to fine my space.

thank you and with much love,
alice

today's poem is created by the american nobel price wining poet louise glück.

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with love,
alice

louise glück

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@apoeticpicnic
@alicesaga

today's poem is created by the poet frank larue owen. it was read to me during a yoga class by my teacher james rafael.

frank larue owen
james rafael
alice saga
a poetic picnic

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today's poem is created by the beautifully talented climate justice advocate, ayisha siddiqa and it is named " on another panel about climate, they ask me to sell the future and all i've got is a love poem". the name of the poem is sheer brilliance and the actual poem is sheer beauty. thank you for sharing your words and justice ayisha.

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ayisha siddiqa

on being with krista tippet

alice saga
a poetic picnic

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much love and thanks for listening:)
alice

today's reading, the poem "the vulnerability of vanity" is by me.

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@alicesaga
@apoeticpicnic

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much love x 
alice

today's reading is "the journey" by mary oliver. at this moment in time this poem means a lot to me which i share.
 
thanks so much for listening:)

love
alice

today's reading is again a poem by the late poetess mary oliver,
it is the beautiful "wild geese".

litcharts
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a poetic picnic
alice saga
email:
solantania@gmail.com

welcome to my podcast! i am alice saga and i am a fine art self-portraitist photographer. i too have a love for poetry and am creating some of my own ones in a while:)

today's reading is by jeff foster and it is called "how to open your heart".

today's poem was read to me by my yoga teacher, james rafael this past monday and i resonated with it so much, that i wanted to share it here with you.

"stand firm in that which you are" by kabir das.

links:
james yoga
kabir das

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a poetic picnic
alice saga

in today's episode i read mary oliver's poem "a dream of trees" and share a little bit of my life as it is at the moment.

much love
alice

in this episode i am reading the poem "crown me with roses" by fernando pessoa. 
oh love love love, don't forget me.

in today's episode i am reading "if you forget me" by pablo neruda.
and of course i have some thoughts around the poem.

today's episode is a reading of mary oliver's "invitation" poem.

i explored with playing the piano as a background music while reading it. i hope you like it:) it's a section from beethoven's "moonlight sonata".

in today's episode i am reading a poem by maya angelo, "touched by an angel".

thank you james rafael for gifting me the knowledge of this poem:)


maya angelo
james rafael

yes we are obsessed with mary oliver here on "a poetic picnic".

today i am reading her poems:

"last night the rain spoke to me" & "the first sign of the zodiac" part 3.

much love
alice