Be More Poet

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 m

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).PAUSEJust PausePause in This PlaceBeing QuietSEE DIFFERENTLYAngles of LightViewpointThe Gift of Seeing SlantRE-STORYThe SongComing to RestThe Long ArcDa

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 a

Nine months ago, I was drawn to start offering a weekly Pause for Peace in the face of the mounting violence around the world. This episode explores the power of the poetic in standing in such a place, helping us see with different eyes and enlarging our humanity.Excerpt from Saved by a Poem: The Transformative Power of Words by Kim RosenA Midweek Pause for Peace:Join me in a pause

Using a poem to explore wild hope and its outworking here in a little valley in South West Wales.WILD HOPEUntamed…Not packaged inlittle sachets you canbuy at the chemist,nor order onlinelike a quick fix formeaninglessness.Wild hope is free, and costs everything.Just watch the birds,they don’t have plan B.You can read the poem in its original form on my blog: The invitation

Using two poems to explore ‘becoming’ as a practice that releases and sustains life.You can read the poems on my blog:UnfurlingThe warmth of becomingThe BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Arts captured behind-the-scenes for the creation of Antony Gormley’s Domain Field exhibition in 2003 on Google Arts & CultureThanks for listening.Sue Heatherington~ from a little valley in S

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 skyThe darkness of memoryYour beautyThey can be found on his LinkTree page – The Will Johnson

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:INVITATION TO LINGERSlowing downenough to notice thelittle signs of grace,spacious enough tobecome attentive,water curiosity and delight in possibility,the unfolding of amore generous life.+ Sue HeatheringtonRead the poem on my blog: Lingering with the

Exploring a different way of seeing from a little valley in South West Wales with me, Sue Heatherington.In this episode, we use a poem I wrote earlier in March to explore our sense of the edge, what we might find there, and why we need travelling companions.Read the poem in my blog of 15th March 2024: Softly walking on the edgeFor more on Quiet Disruptors, including the manifesto,

Exploring a different way of seeing from a little valley in South West Wales with me, Sue Heatherington.In this episode, I explore how the sense of place shapes what we see. In particular, the characteristics the valley shares with other pockets of temperate rainforest on the western flanks of Britain.How Spring emerges here is distinctive and speaks to the transitions in our lives