Cook & Crank: The Cosmic Poetry Podcast

From the barstools of the world emanate many schemes to solve our problems, some in the form of poems. Cosmic Poet Simon Pole reads one of them here. From the Poems For Ocean collection. Website: https://simonpole.ca/   Audio Credits: https://simonpole.ca/pages/audio-credits

Let us defang boredom with this contemplation of creation and the artist's lot within. 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

What is Palpable Menace, and should we be worried about it?  Cosmic Poet Simon Pole offers a poem from the Poems For Ocean collection as an antidote. Website: https://simonpole.ca/   Audio Credits: https://simonpole.ca/pages/audio-credits

Though the ill-gotten gains are plentiful, an articulate criminal laments his final situation.  Cosmic Poet Simon Pole takes on this persona in the latest poem from the Poems For Ocean collection. Website: https://simonpole.ca/   Audio Credits: https://simonpole.ca/pages/audio-credits

A curse on all those who might mislead and mystify the people. Cosmic Poet Simon Pole makes such an invocation from the poetry collection, Poems For Ocean. Website: https://simonpole.ca/   Audio Credits: https://simonpole.ca/pages/audio-credits

There is the night before war…and then there is the day after.  As today's verses from Cosmic Poet Simon Pole contend, what goes in the grave might not necessarily stay there quietly. From the collection Poems For Ocean.  Website: https://simonpole.ca/   Audio Credits: https://simonpole.ca/pages/audio-credits

Both men and books fade, prey to time, though some endure. Cosmic Poet Simon Pole explores this universal condition in his latest poem. From the collection Poems For Ocean. Website: https://simonpole.ca/   Audio Credits: https://simonpole.ca/pages/audio-credits

Down the centuries the Gargoyle, perched as he is on the church roof, has witnessed the crimes of man. What did he see? Cosmic Poet Simon Pole tell us in this poem from the Poems For Ocean collection. Website: https://simonpole.ca/   Audio Credits: https://simonpole.ca/pages/audio-credits

Even the loser must have a poem and this it.  Our narrator explains what drew him to robbery and jail.  Cosmic Poet Simon Pole reads from the Poems For Ocean collection.  Website: https://simonpole.ca/   Audio Credits: https://simonpole.ca/pages/audio-credits

It is an ever repeating story:  that of leaving home, the tempering experience of life, and the inevitable return and mediation on what has been.  Cosmic Poet Simon Pole takes a new perspective this shared experience of man, in these verses from the Poems For Ocean collection. Website: https://simonpole.ca/   Audio Credits: https://simonpole.ca/pages/audio-credits

Some Old Folks fade away. Others go out with a bang. Today we'll hear about the later and their 24/7 party.  Read by Cosmic Poet Simon Pole, from the Poems For Ocean collection. Website: https://simonpole.ca/   Audio Credits: https://simonpole.ca/pages/audio-credits

Who likes sonnets? We have another today from Cosmic Poet Simon Pole in which we think about the many ways, and why, the meaning of speech between two people is garbled.  From the collection Poems For Ocean. Website: https://simonpole.ca/   Audio Credits: https://simonpole.ca/pages/audio-credits

Explore the unity and symmetry of a series of seemingly unrelated images, in the latest poem ready by Cosmic Poet Simon Pole. From the Poems For Ocean collection. Website: https://simonpole.ca/   Audio Credits: https://simonpole.ca/pages/audio-credits

This poem is the story of the gambler's ultimate good luck charm:  an old hat, and their incredible adventures together. Read by Cosmic Poet, Simon Pole. From the collection Poems For Ocean. Website: https://simonpole.ca/   Audio Credits: https://simonpole.ca/pages/audio-credits

Verses that inhabit the beatness and ephemeralness of city places, read by Cosmic Poet Simon Pole. From the collection Poems For Ocean. Website: https://simonpole.ca/   Audio Credits: https://simonpole.ca/pages/audio-credits

Sometimes life smothers out to the point it seems our hearts would break. Cosmic Poet Simon Pole address this universal feeling in his latest sonnet. From the collection Poems For Ocean. Website: https://simonpole.ca/   Audio Credits: https://simonpole.ca/pages/audio-credits

Do you like grilled cheese sandwiches? Cosmic Poet Simon Pole does, and reads his heart-felt ode to them on this week's episode. From the collection Poems For Ocean. Website: https://simonpole.ca/   Audio Credits: https://simonpole.ca/pages/audio-credits

In days past, the village blacksmith's tools fitted out a man's entire existence of  war and peace, life and death. Revisit those days in verse with Cosmic Poet Simon Pole. From the collection Poems For Ocean. Website: https://simonpole.ca/   Audio Credits: https://simonpole.ca/pages/audio-credits

Cosmic Poet Simon Pole examines the iconic serial killer and his opposite, the law-enforcer, in these verses from the Poems From Ocean Collection.  Website: https://simonpole.ca/   Audio Credits: https://simonpole.ca/pages/audio-credits

Hear the poem Apartment Man, a mediation on the status of modern man. his apartment, and his pets by Cosmic Poet Simon Pole. From the collection Poems For Ocean. Website: https://simonpole.ca/   Audio Credits: https://simonpole.ca/pages/audio-credits

Understand the essence of a Paratrooper, the most elite of soldiers, in this sonnet read by Cosmic Poet Simon Pole.  From the collection Poems for Ocean. Website: https://simonpole.ca/   Audio Credits: https://simonpole.ca/pages/audio-credits

Experience the last day on earth of Alexander the Great through the memories of his  veteran comrades.  Listen to the poem Alexander's Men, read by Cosmic Poet, Simon Pole.  From the collection Poems For Ocean. Website: https://simonpole.ca/   Audio Credits: https://simonpole.ca/pages/audio-credits