Poems for Company - August 25th, 2025

August 25, 2025 00:29:00
Poems for Company - August 25th, 2025
Poems for Company
Poems for Company - August 25th, 2025

Aug 25 2025 | 00:29:00

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Show Notes

“Wandering and Roving”: When you wander in the woods, how do you decide which way to go when you arrive at a fork in your path?  The first of today’s poems offers a playful response to that question, and the other poems also reflect in various ways on the act of wandering.  Robert Frost, “The Road Not Taken.”  John Clare, “The Moors.”  Lord Byron, “So We’ll Go No More a Roving.”  Edna St. Vincent Millay, “Recuerdo.”  The show’s theme music is Philip Aaberg’s “Going-to-the-Sun,” from his CD Live from Montana (sweetgrassmusic.com) and used with the kind permission of Philip Aaberg.  If you have...

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