Cook & Crank: The Cosmic Poetry Podcast
The official podcast of Cosmic Poet Simon Pole. Hear a different poem performed each week in the Cosmic Poet's own authentic, expressive voice, with a short commentary for added enjoyment.
Simon Pole is the author of six volumes of poetry, including the seven-poem epic cycle The Saga of Terminal City. Known for a distinctive brand of writing called Cosmic Poetry, which scales from the everyday to the spiritual heights beyond, Pole is a graduate of Harvard University, and a descendant of early Canadian poet Susie Drury.
He lives in Kingsville, Ontario, on the north shore of Lake Erie.
Cook & Crank: The Cosmic Poetry Podcast
The Touchdown
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The rules and runners of football tell us much about ourselves, wrapped in glory and heartache. A poem read by Cosmic Poet Simon Pole. From the Poems For Ocean collection.
Website: https://simonpole.ca/
Audio Credits: https://simonpole.ca/pages/audio-credits
Hello and welcome to Cook and Crank, the Cosmic Poetry Podcast. I'm your host, Simon Pole, the Cosmic Poet. Our poem today is called The Touchdown. It is amazing, is it not, how much glory and heartache and hope is invested in a set of rules, a ball, a field, and a bunch of players in their uniforms. It is something very uniquely human. Today we will take a look at the expression of these qualities in the sport of football after the break. The touchdown invest my hopes, attend my cheer, you in motion rushing near, wheeling cleats which grip the grass, yard marks in profusion pass. Away they stretch at your back, that vigorous pounding pack in pursuit, but greater space opens in their futile race. In each heart with you we run underneath October's sun, in the bowl the chanting crowd swells and swells, abnormal loud. I touch down yours, footsteps fine, dance across the painted line, untouched by hand, hip or block, to your side glad teammates flock. That is the game, the final score, with one voice the vow we roar, The gift of these winning points, always hero you anoints. You have just heard the touchdown from the poetry collection Poems for Ocean. I'm your cosmic poet and host Simon Pohl. Visit the website SimonPole.ca for more cosmic poetry, including the book we've just read from. We'll be back soon on the Cook and Crank Podcast with more readings from the Poems for Ocean Collection. Until then, remember, poetry is the water of life, though whiskey might be too. Goodbye.