Thanks so much for this. I was just looking at some old family photos a few days ago.

One of the great pieces of writing about the creative process, similar 'For the Young Who Want to' by Marge Piercy

Hello! Every night my family reads two poems at bedtime. Twice a week we do "poems on phone." We discovered your channel because we were looking for a reading of "Franz Marc's Blue Horses." Anywho, my daughters are taking you up on your request. They're wondering if you could do "Swan," by Mary Oliver, as well as "The Vixen," by W.S. Merwin. Thank you! 🙂

Beautifully read Brandy, thank you for choosing my poem x

This one’s particularly delightful. It’s me.

i love your English accent Grandmother

Dear Brandy, I always enjoy listening to your reading book.

Edward Carpenter wrote seminal works on civilization if you ask me: Civilization - it's cause and cure: there is something so important in that work - a few things actually. His 'Art of Creation' is a natural, organic Hegelian like perspective, only written from the perspective of nature, with her rich and colourful and alive language, rather then the concept, the mind, which made Hegel dry and to most of us incomprehensible. You have to find where he was born - number 45 Brunswick Square, Brighton. It's an absolutely beautiful square with beautiful architecture and a park in the middle opposite the sea, not excessively grand apartments but somehow Brighton and the cheer and beauty around the place really reminds you of Edward Carpenters character and characteristic freedom. I am half certain I was Carpenter in a previous life because I saw his first works in a fortuitious, timely and synchronistic way, I then saw his blue plaque on number 45 Brunswick Square by pure chance, as I lived about 1 minute around the corner, and then when I read other works I realized we saw almost everything in exactly the same way, and I had never really encountered anyone else who did. Probably I am a more insane appearing version of him, because a sane person could only get more and more insane seeming in an increasingly insane world. Actually I don't really accept the theory of reincarnation, but I do believe there is some connection with his mind beyond words. There's no doubt for me. It would be all the more extraordinary if it wasn't true. Then I would eat my hat.

Powerful stuff! My family loved how you provided some personal context for the poem. ❤️

Just discovered you tonight Brandy while KZbining for Dorothy’s poems. I crushed on her way back at the Darwin Writers Festival in 2008. I adored her work, her and Lily Brett two of my favourite Australian poets. Dot as she asked me to call her told me if I wanted to understand her, to get to know her than I must read Akhenaten. Weeks later Dot posted to me one copy including Akhenaten of her published books. The woman was 5”1, I’m 5”10 she was a sun in my universe. So happy to hear your readings. Didn’t realise when I met her she had been fighting breast cancer, some nine weeks later she died. 😕📖🌏 But what a gift she left from her heart, poetry. ❤

Thank you for reading! 💐

I love this video!!🥹

Brilliant. I love it.

Well done. People need more poetry!

Beautiful!

I loved it. Thank you!

Lovely poem and reading. Thank you.

Thank you for sharing this!

That was wonderful, thank you

Where are you from grandma

Nice Pictures are mirror images and not readable

Thank you so much

thank you so much for reading my book. The Catoblepas captured my imagination many many years ago. i discovered this creature in a Middle Ages bestiary, written in latin, than happened to be in my hands. t stays there, in my imagination, dormant for years... then when i started writing this book, it popped out with a smile :)

oh my dear! thank you so much for the reading! I really enjoyed it! :) It is so funny that you started with one of my favourite creatures! I discovered the Kayeri by chance and I fell in love with it :) :) :) RRRRROOOOOOOAAAARRRRR!

Good afternoon ma'am I'm Sukh Ram from India. I want to learn English language with the help you. I want to learn English spoken. Can you help me?

He was my ancestor! How interesting

No 874 in The New Oxford Book of English Verse😊 Poem starts at 1:08.

No 823 in The New Oxford Book of English Verse😊 Poem starts at 0:56.

Promo SM 💋

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I love your videos keep the good work up. 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

Beautiful ❤....so beautiful...and so full of meaning... food for the spirit 🔥💜... in tune with nature 🌲🌺🍄🦋... with the universe 💫✨🌌...

Beautiful 🍁🍂🧡...I love Autumn season and the changes in the mature...the warm colorful leaves...red...yellow...brown...and the wind...the stormy wind...

No 348 in The New Oxford Book of English Verse, thanks for explaining about the stone being a magnet that allusion passed me by😊

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Poem starts at 0:43 No 181 in The New Oxford Book of English Verse😊 I too am going through this book 40 years after I bought it. The green dust jacket got torn so I had to throw it! Makes it easier to hold and read this wonderful large book.

❤️🙌🏻😌 Beautiful... Thank you so much! o o

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Yes,wonderful...a lesson about the value and gratitude of being alive...

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Hi Brandy, thank you for your reading. It was truly lovely <3 Poems by Mary Oliver bring me deep peace and I plan to get Devotions for Christmas.

thank you! this is the first time I've seen your channel and I very much enjoyed this Mary Oliver poem. She's one of my favorites.

❤ Thank You!🤗🙌🦋🌟😘❤️

My cats are my children 😻... they are the ones I talk to, they are the ones I share my life with... They are the ones who know my heart ❤️... They are the ones who dry my tears, they are the ones who share my smiles... they are the ones that are always there for me, the ones that see my soul 🔥💜... Just like my pigeons, my blackbirds, my dove 🕊️ ❤️, they are the ones who share my life and who know my wild spirit just as their spirits are 🔥💜...

Thank you Brandy you read it beautifully & can't get enough of Dr. JCC xx

Beautiful ❤️

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