Brian’s Poetry Oasis

“I am leaving you with a gift - peace of mind and heart. And the peace I give is the peace the world cannot give.” -Jesus from the Gospel of John • Poetry, Podcast, Performance, Production © 2021 Brian Crouth / Photo: Aaron Burden / Music: “When I Realized” John Barzetti • Yellin, Deena. “Millions giving up organized religion: America’s fast-growing movement: The ‘Nones’.” USA Today, October 4, 20...

•Poetry, Podcast, Performance, Production © 2019, 2021 Brian Crouth with the exception of “Nurse’s Song” by William Blake from his Songs of Innocence / Photo credit: Annie Spratt / Song: “Today is a Gift” Yi Natiro •Enjoy Joni Mitchell singing “The Circle Game” w/ lyrics for this poignant song: https://bit.ly/3z4HPOd •Receive Oasis podcast email notifications: https://bit.ly/3j0gR4q •Send your tho...

Poetry, Podcast, Performance, Production © 2018, 2021 Brian Crouth / Photo credit: Matthew Fassnacht / Song credit: “Frontiers Are Where You Find Them” Trevor Kowalski Enjoy Mama Cass Elliott singing “Make Your Own Kind of Music”: https://bit.ly/2XSS4s4 • Receive Oasis podcast email notifications: https://bit.ly/3j0gR4q • Send your thoughts & comments to: brianspoetryoasis@gmail.com • Support Poet...

Poetry, Podcast, Performance, Production © 2019, 2021 Brian Crouth / Photo credit: Charisse Kenion/ Song credit:“In the Stillness” Megan Wofford Watch the video recording of W.S. Merwin reading his Poem, “Yesterday”: https://bit.ly/3rHtfKi • Oasis email notifications: https://bit.ly/3j0gR4q • Send your thoughts, comments, inspirations to: brianspoetryoasis@gmail.com • Support Poet Brian’s Creative...

Poetry, Podcast, Performance, Photo, Production © 2018, 2020, 2021 Brian Crouth • Oasis podcast email notifications: https://subscribebyemail.com/anchor.fm/s/130995e4/podcast/rss • Send your thoughts, comments, inspirations to: brianspoetryoasis@gmail.com • Support Poet Brian’s Creative and Podcast Production Time and Efforts: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/2PoetBrian No amount is too small. Than...

Poetry, Podcast, Performance, Production © 2020, 2021 Brian Crouth / Photo credit: Johan Van Wambeke (Unsplash) • Oasis podcast email notifications: https://subscribebyemail.com/anchor.fm/s/130995e4/podcast/rss • Send your thoughts, comments, inspirations to: brianspoetryoasis@gmail.com • Support Poet Brian’s Creative and Podcast Production Time and Efforts: https://paypal.me/2PoetBrian?locale.x=e...

Poetry, Podcast, Performance, Production © 2021 Brian Crouth / Photo credit: Megan te Boekhorst (Unsplash) / Song credit: “Fountain of Belief” by Hampus Naeselius • Oasis podcast email notifications: https://subscribebyemail.com/anchor.fm/s/130995e4/podcast/rss • Send your thoughts, comments, inspirations to: brianspoetryoasis@gmail.com • Support Poet Brian’s Creative and Podcast Production Time a...

Poetry, Podcast, Performance, Production © 2021 Brian Crouth / Photo credit: Umesh Raj (Unsplash) / Song credit: “Sweet Despair” by Dream Cave, Anya Gold • Oasis podcast email notifications: https://subscribebyemail.com/anchor.fm/s/130995e4/podcast/rss • Send your thoughts, comments, inspirations to: brianspoetryoasis@gmail.com • Support Poet Brian’s Creative and Podcast Production Time and Effort...

Poetry, Podcast, Performance, Production © 2021, Run to Me © 2019, 2020 Brian Crouth, Most nights I think of you© 2018,2020 Brian Crouth, If Hell Is A Choice © 2017, 2020 Brian Crouth Image credit: “Finding Dan” Dan Grinwis (Unsplash) Poet Brian always loves to hear from you: brianspoetryoasis@gmail.com What holds us back, keeps us from trying, and “inter-fears” w/ Peace and Joy? Poet Brian confro...

Poetry,Podcast,Performance,Production: ©2017, 2020, 2021 Brian Crouth All rights reserved Song credit:“OnThou” by Ever So Blue (Epidemic Sound) Photo credit: Edmilson Junior (Unsplash) Send an email to brianspoetryoasis@gmail.com and share your take on a “full moon wrapped in a riddle” and I’ll send you an audio of an never-before-heard Oasis Experience just for you. I look forward to journeying t...

Podcast description template Poetry,Podcast,Performance,Production: ©2018, 2020, 2021 Brian Crouth Photo credit: Kyle Head (Unsplash) Send an email to brianspoetryoasis@gmail.com and share where you go to find “a safe space” and I’ll send you an audio of an never-before-heard Oasis Experience just for you I look forward to journeying together and getting to know you. Until next time. Peace!---

Poetry, Podcast, Performance, and Production: ©1997, 2001, 2021 Brian Crouth All rights reserved Song credit:“There’s a New Day” Staffan Carlén Photo credit: Marcos Paulo Prado (Unsplash) Send an email to brianspoetryoasis@gmail.com and share what your 2021 New Year’s resolution is and I’ll send you an audio of an never-before-heard Oasis Experience just for you I look forward to journeying togeth...

Poetry, Podcast, Performance, Production © 2019, 2020 BrianCrouth / Photo credit: Getty Images / Song credit: “Svalbard” by Julyan Brynn / Oasis podcast email notifications: https://subscribebyemail.com/anchor.fm/s/130995e4/podcast/rss Send your thoughts, comments, inspirations to: brianspoetryoasis@gmail.com There were leaves of gold, damp and sidewalk strewn, for the wind and rain had stopped by...

Poetry, Podcast, Performance, Production © 2019, 2020 Photo credit: Gemma Evans / Background music: “I Remember Well”’by Cody Francis / Song credit: “Floating Hearts” by Julyan Brynn / Oasis podcast email notifications: https://subscribebyemail.com/anchor.fm/s/130995e4/podcast/rss Send your thoughts, comments, inspirations to: brianspoetryoasis@gmail.com “Wellspring of my Inspiration: where have y...

Poetry, Podcast, Performance, Production ©2020 Photo credit: David Nieto Watch Ray Charles sing, “American the Beautiful” on the Dick Cavett Show Sept 18, 1972 https://youtu.be/TRUjr8EVgBg Oasis podcast email notifications: https://subscribebyemail.com/anchor.fm/s/130995e4/podcast/rss Send your thoughts, comments, inspirations to: brianspoetryoasis@gmail.com Our country’s election is not worthy, f...

Poetry, Podcast, Performance, Production ©2020 Sign up for the Oasis podcast email notifications: https://subscribebyemail.com/anchor.fm/s/130995e4/podcast/rss Send your thoughts, comments, inspirations to: brianspoetryoasis@gmail.com I had something to get done today: something I’ve been avoiding, putting off for “another day” that inevitably will steal me away from all I might enjoy this preciou...

Fine Snow © 2018, 2020 Brian Crouth / Photo credit: Sadie Staigar

Poetry,Podcast,Performance,Production ©2019,2020BrianCrouthAllrightsreservd New Oasis episode email notifications: https://subscribebyemail.com/anchor.fm/s/130995e4/podcast/rss Thoughts,Comments,Inspirations: brianspoetryoasis@gmail.com “O how I love sonnets! What’s not to love? Says it all in just 14 lines: fits like a glove!”

once upon a time the man I am who was back then played a certain song and took her hand... (from The Other Side of a Broken Heart) Listen to Tony Bennett sing “The Way You Look Tonight” https://youtu.be/Mx3SPsH9AMQThe Original piano background music for The Other Side by Megan Wofford with sound engineering by Cary Jacobs All Poetry&content © 2020 Brian Crouth Send your thoughts & comments: brians...

once upon a time the man I am who was back then played a certain song and took her hand... (from The Other Side of a Broken Heart) Listen to Tony Bennett sing “The Way You Look Tonight” https://youtu.be/Mx3SPsH9AMQThe Original piano background music for The Other Side by Megan Wofford with sound engineering by Cary Jacobs All Poetry&content © 2020 Brian Crouth Send your thoughts & comments: brians...

a Poem by Oscar Wilde leads Poet Brian to new and familiar places, and an Oasis from anxiety. Poems: Symphony in Yellow by Oscar Wilde; Ovid’s Covid, the right amount (“Do not Worry”) & if I were to give you a yellow bouquet ©2019, 2020 Brian Crouth/ Poet Brian loves to hear from you: share what the Oasis awakens in you w/ an Anchor message or email 2poetbrian@gmail.com

if I were to give you a bouquet of yellow: I’d gather the splendor of a daffodil’s petals the taste of squash blossoms fried,
goat cheese melting inside the perfume of green grass mixed with fresh dandelion I’d give you standing on tiptoes “the little daisy that could” - never giving up to be noticed and lost in the crowd daylillies that line country roadsides while they still stand at attention -...

a Poem by Oscar Wilde leads Poet Brian to new and familiar places, and an Oasis from anxiety. Poems: Symphony in Yellow by Oscar Wilde; Ovid’s Covid & the right amount (“Do not Worry) ©2019, 2020 Brian Crouth/ Image: Chad Leonard “The Revival” (Watercolor) (FB/Instagram @i_am_the_chad) Share what the Oasis awakens in you w/ an Anchor message or email 2poetbrian@gmail.com Poet Brian loves to hear f...

back in the day when work would take me far from home traveling where they needed me perfecting sprints through major hubs with briefcase, laptop, carry on an airplane gave me stillness, calm a time out from the pace of a career, expectations for a family life II there is nothing like the calm I find in flight, suspended in midair the soothing backdrop of flowing air that maintains cabin pressure...

Whether it’s waking up w/ the doldrums or a Creative dry spell, Poet Brian discovers there’s a gift by trusting the struggle and the waiting. Poems: Wellspring of my Inspiration; waiting on a friend; how about you? © 2020 Brian Crouth/ Photo: Chris Barbalis / Send your thoughts, reflections, ideas &requests w/ an Anchor message, or brianspoetryoasis@gmail.com because Poet Brian loves to hear from...