The Elves and the Shoemaker

Astral Projection Sonnet

*Annual Free Patreon Episode, Wherein We See What's Happening Over There!* What would any of us be/ without our spirituality? In this episode, we get real and artful and honest about spirituality. It's the inspiration for and saturating undercurrent of this podcast, my poetry, and all of my creative endeavors. It's the light leading the buffalo herd, the engine and mind of the ocean, the source of the cosmos, the consciousness dreaming force inside of all sentient beings, hairy, luminous, winged, burrowing, and otherwise. Can we get a Bigfoot roar for the heart-truth that is our spirituality? JOYOUS BIGFOOT ROAR!!! So, grab a mug of your favorite beverage, call up your spirit, and enjoy!!!

The Elves and the Shoemaker Part Two

Who would love to hear an Indigenous interpretation of this classic Grimms' fairy tale? In this episode, I bring the little people themselves into our examination of the Elves and the Shoemaker, seeing how the fairy tale has much actual truth to share about these sacred little relatives. It's time to remember. It's time to laugh. It's time to get our joy dance on and get real about the little people! So, grab a mug of your favorite beverage, open your heart to the sacred, and enjoy! And as always, for more episodes of The Ponca Poet's Podcast please check out my Patreon and consider joining the poetry-and-story-loving community there!

The Elves and the Shoemaker

With a heart packed full of good stories we're capable of anything! In this episode, I tell one of the classics from Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Elves and the Shoemaker. When's the last time you heard about these magical little people and the cobbler who was getting blessed by them? Were you thinking then what I'm thinking now: that this is a bonafide old-world teaching about our sacred little people relatives precisely for us cool common folk? It just might be, but to know for sure we're going to have to cannonball/swan dive our way down into its smile-making tale. So, grab a mug of your favorite beverage, tip some out to those sweet little people, and enjoy! And as always, for more episodes of The Ponca Poet's Podcast please check out my Patreon and consider joining the poetry-and-story-loving community there.

The Akebono Tree

What becomes of a person who deeply loves a certain tree? In this episode, I fist-bump a perfectly wonderful day, detail my opening procedures at the Co-op a bit, and then order my morning praise thoughts into a sonnet about the sweet akebono tree I visit with everyday.  For more episodes of The Ponca Poet’s Podcast please check out my Patreon and consider joining the poetry-and-story-loving community there.  Weblaho!!!

Hold Steady, Changer

As times intensify, we lean into what we must to help each other through them.  In this episode, I read a poem titled ‘The Changer’ and give love to the all the creative resources we have at hand to employ in the face of today’s most recent injustices and atrocities; I also give love to the indescribable flowing life-giving immensity that is Grandmother Columbia River, leaning into Her as I read, record, fly along.  So, grab a mug of your favorite beverage, settle in for an infusion of the Poetic Spirit, and enjoy! And as always, for more episodes of The Ponca Poet’s Podcast please check out my Patreon and consider joining the poetry-and-story-loving community there!