Gentle Verses for Quiet Nights
A poetry podcast. Each episode: one beautiful poem — a sonnet, a haiku, a ghazal — savored slowly, with warmth and full attention. Love and loss, solitude and seasons. Words for slowing down, opening your heart, and drifting toward sleep on a tide of beautiful language.
Anonymous — Ancient Egypt, translated Michael V. Fox
Three thousand years before anyone wrote a sonnet,
one voice tried to say what love does from the inside.
Pablo Neruda
I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,
in secret, between the shadow and the soul.
U.A. Fanthorpe
Most love poems give you roses.
This one gives you WD-40.
Rabindranath Tagore
I seem to have loved you in numberless forms,
numberless times — in life after life, forever.
Poetry holds all of it — love and loss, solitude and seasons, the small mysteries of being alive. And somehow makes it better.
Join me for Soothing Stanzas — a poetry podcast for quiet evenings. Each short episode offers a single beautiful poem, savored slowly, with warmth and full attention.
Season 1 explores love in all its fullness — from the oldest love poem ever written to the daily, unheroic devotion that holds a life together.
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