Dale Biron On Poetry – Poetry Applied To Life’s Great Joys, Mysteries, And Calamities... podcast

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If A Poem Does Not Move You... Move On! 5:42

1 day temu5:42

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A good poem will interest, excite, and move you. You don’t need to “try” to like a good poem. So if a poem does not move you… move on! There is so much poetry, you can be picky.

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A POEM TO HELP BUILD YOUR GRATEFULNESS MUSCLE? 6:59

8 dni temu6:59

6:59

A greatefulness practice can transform your life. But what happens when feeling grateful seems difficult, or even impossible? Here's a story and a poem that may help. (PS: GRATEFUL.ORG is an amazing resource for your gratefulness practice, co-founded by Brother David Steindl-Rast)

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Change Your Mind Change Your Mood 6:53

15 dni temu6:53

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Some poems are so good... they can give us a kind of fresh start. Deliver gifts for the head and heart. Help us change our minds and moods...

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The Trouble With Heroes 9:15

22 dni temu9:15

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"Heroes are all about straightening things out. The courageous love the curves as much as the straights..." –Dale Biron

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Why Hope 1.0 Is Dying 8:13

29 dni temu8:13

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That old kind of hope, "hope 1.0" is no longer up to the task. It is being replaced, and not a second too soon...

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A "Break Glass" Emergency Poem 4:51

5 weeks temu4:51

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Use this poem to regain your center, agency, and way... even in these most difficult times!

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A Brief Meditation On These Dark Times 6:08

6 weeks temu6:08

6:08

"Friends, we’re trying to understand, as one, as many, as Mother Earth. And it can be as daunting as catching smoke with our bare hands." –Dale Biron

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Asking Me To "Stand With The Dems" 10:18

7 weeks temu10:18

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Asking Me To "Stand With The Dems" You keep asking for more money, and for me to “stand with the Dems.” I’ll stand with the Dems when they actually take a stand for us all. I’ll stand with the Dems when they break a few rules, peacefully yes, creatively for sure, forcefully, of course, as when dealing with any bully. I’ll stand with the Dems when they clean up their own act, rejecting our billionaire-backed political system, a.k.a. the coin-operated, oligarch plan. I’ll stand with the Dems when they stand for something real. I’ll stand with the Dems when they stop focusing on how bad “they” are and start focusing on how good “we all” could be. Which reminds me, where’s the Dem Party’s version of a Project 2025 Plan? Repeat after me, “ecological sanity, healthcare for all, bribery out of politics, ERA finally done, democracy at work, fair taxes, zero tolerance for monopolies and oligarchs, fair pay for fair work, robust peace process, applied equality.” Also, remember that political election outcome you were so afraid of? Me too! Well, it’s happened, now what? Why not say and do things that are pro-human, and pro-earth? Why not say and do things that aren’t hedge-fund approved, or billionaire-purchased, nor focus-group-backed, or sanctioned by political consultants, and please, no more tiny, “moving the Titanic deck chairs” incremental steps that keep serving up all that milquetoast, “business as usual” disappointment. Listen Dems, you feel me? I’ll stand up tall with you, even give a little money, if you’ll just keep it real. I mean really real. –Dale Biron…

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We Are Helpless Mapmakers... 6:03

8 weeks temu6:03

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We are helpless mapmakers. We can’t stop drawing lines, creating meaning, and shaping stories to explain the world around us. It’s how we navigate life—through beliefs, assumptions, and the mental landscapes we construct. But if we combine this irresistible human trait with the deepest wisdom we have—the kind that recognizes our profound interconnectedness—then maybe, just maybe, we can chart a path toward survival, even flourishing. The most pressing question is: What kind of maps are we making? And where are they leading us?…

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When Life Overwhelms Us And We Need A Reset 6:51

8 weeks temu6:51

6:51

If we look inside ourselves, each of us has places in our lives of brokenness, sorrow, and grief. Places that have strung us out to dry... What then? That's when this week's poem comes in handy.

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What If Our Pricey Eggs Could Talk? 4:51

10 weeks temu4:51

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Can a humorous poem make serious points? Yes. Poems can help us make sense of the world. Poems can help us ask new, sometimes uncomfortable questions. A just right poem can help us write whole new ways of seeing and feeling the world, and what's going on in it...

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How To Be Less Fearful (to remind myself) 15:07

11 weeks temu15:07

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How To Be Less Fearful (to remind myself) "What if we, are the only Calvary that’s actually coming? What if the kindness we seek, we must bring ourselves...?" –Dale Biron

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The Aikido Of Poetry... Finding Sanity In The Chaos 5:54

12 weeks temu5:54

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Finding moments of sanity, refuge, and even joy, is more critical than ever. This week's special poem is a potent reminder of this...

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99% Of People Love This Poem 8:00

13 weeks temu8:00

8:00

Listen to one of the most popular poems, from one of the most popular poets in the last 100 years...

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The Great Gods of Permission 9:02

14 weeks temu9:02

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"There is no requirement to read, or hear, or write anything! But why not? If I were empowered by The Great Gods of Permission, I would provide you vast Amazon rivers of it. Baptize, forgive, and bless you with it. After all, language is your human super power, the only tool you can’t put down...." –Dale Biron…

Dale Biron On Poetry – Poetry Applied to Life’s Great Joys, Mysteries, and Calamities...

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Does Mother Earth Need A Restraining Order? 6:17

30 weeks temu6:17

6:17

Does Mother Earth need a restraining order? This is one of several questions we tackle in this edition of the Dale Biron On Poetry Podcast. We also want to know the relationship between probability and possibility? Hint, living in possibility is pretty important...

Dale Biron On Poetry – Poetry Applied to Life’s Great Joys, Mysteries, and Calamities...

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Your Mishaps, Mistakes & Misfortunes 4:57

31 weeks temu4:57

4:57

Once you've extracted as much learning as you can from your past mishaps, mistakes, and misfortunes, it’s best to simply let it all go…

Dale Biron On Poetry – Poetry Applied to Life’s Great Joys, Mysteries, and Calamities...

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Finding Courage In Difficult Times 7:26

32 weeks temu7:26

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Courage is to "know" our heart, and to "follow" it. In times of great turmoil and difficulty, it becomes even more important to do so. As in these times...

Dale Biron On Poetry – Poetry Applied to Life’s Great Joys, Mysteries, and Calamities...

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The Universal Club of Kindness 7:31

33 weeks temu7:31

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Once we are part of this mysterious, unfathomable, undefinable, condition we call life, we are in (and within) the universal club of kindness.

Dale Biron On Poetry – Poetry Applied to Life’s Great Joys, Mysteries, and Calamities...

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Righteous Anger 5:14

34 weeks temu5:14

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Can a poem explain the power of anger? Yes, the right poem, and the right kind of anger... Righteous anger.

Dale Biron On Poetry – Poetry Applied to Life’s Great Joys, Mysteries, and Calamities...

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When Your Soul Needs Nature 3:58

35 weeks temu3:58

3:58

There will be times when you can place your body into the natural world, to walk, see, feel, hear and touch. And there will be times when you can’t. But you can still seek healing solace.

Dale Biron On Poetry – Poetry Applied to Life’s Great Joys, Mysteries, and Calamities...

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Can A Critter Help Cure Our Sadness 7:27

36 weeks temu7:27

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Might there be a poem equal to a cat video? Can a critter help cure our sadness, even our subtle but irreversible sadness?

Dale Biron On Poetry – Poetry Applied to Life’s Great Joys, Mysteries, and Calamities...

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The Secret To Reading Poems Out Loud 5:46

37 weeks temu5:46

5:46

Here's how to read poems for optimum inspiration, joy, and impact. (Relax. Renew. Repeat...)

Dale Biron On Poetry – Poetry Applied to Life’s Great Joys, Mysteries, and Calamities...

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Decolonizing Our Minds (and Hearts) 7:24

38 weeks temu7:24

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War is necessary, needed, and natural… Wait, is this actually so? Powerful poems can help us push up against our cultural beliefs and expectations, especially the ones that are no longer serving us. This is one of my favorites mind and heart decolonization tools. A poem by Pablo Neruda, that says let’s just be quiet for a time...…

Dale Biron On Poetry – Poetry Applied to Life’s Great Joys, Mysteries, and Calamities...

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Giving Up Your Worst Grudge 7:35

39 weeks temu7:35

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Our worst grudge is the one we hold, often unwittingly, against ourselves. It's the one that does the greatest damage. Time for forgiveness...

Dale Biron On Poetry – Poetry Applied to Life’s Great Joys, Mysteries, and Calamities...

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A Poem Encouraging Peace of Mind 3:38

40 weeks temu3:38

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Sometimes increasing our peace of mind becomes our highest priority. This poem may help...

Dale Biron On Poetry – Poetry Applied to Life’s Great Joys, Mysteries, and Calamities...

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Traveling Through This Darkness 5:24

41 weeks temu5:24

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How might a poem help us with difficult decisions in these dark times?

Dale Biron On Poetry – Poetry Applied to Life’s Great Joys, Mysteries, and Calamities...

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“With Fear for our Democracy, I Dissent" 6:56

43 weeks temu6:56

6:56

A simple poem about a beautiful, flawed, and precious thing...

Dale Biron On Poetry – Poetry Applied to Life’s Great Joys, Mysteries, and Calamities...

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How Humans Change… A Pickle Juice Story 8:03

44 weeks temu8:03

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New stories, powerful metaphors, and compelling images, are arriving now daily. And not a moment too soon, because the old narratives have lost virtually all of their credibility, and certainly all of their magic. It's new cultural "pickle juice" we need, now more than ever...

Dale Biron On Poetry – Poetry Applied to Life’s Great Joys, Mysteries, and Calamities...

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We Are Each Other's Changes 10:08

45 weeks temu10:08

10:08

We are social beings. We make, consume and live by the stories we share with others. Stories that help us see and feel, think and navigate the world and our place in it. Stories that eventually define what passes for what we call our common sense....

Dale Biron On Poetry – Poetry Applied to Life’s Great Joys, Mysteries, and Calamities...

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The Great Los Angeles Fires 9:24

15 weeks temu9:24

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Of all the things poems can do, one of them is to help us work with catastrophic loss, to grieve and make sense of the senseless...

Dale Biron On Poetry – Poetry Applied to Life’s Great Joys, Mysteries, and Calamities...

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I've Never Had A Favorite Song! 7:43

16 weeks temu7:43

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We would be shocked and eventually saddened to hear someone say this to us. Everyone has a favorite song, right? Of course, they do! But today, let's go beyond our favorite songs and ponder our favorite poems. I want us to be equally shocked if someone cannot name their favorite poem. It may actually become even more critical in our lives. Also, we'll feature a brilliant poem for we mortals, we who are confronting greater and greater levels of difficulty and vulnerability in this world. Who knows, maybe this featured poem will become one of your favorites?…

Dale Biron On Poetry – Poetry Applied to Life’s Great Joys, Mysteries, and Calamities...

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Keeping It Real... With Poetry 9:45

17 weeks temu9:45

9:45

How can we weave more beauty and meaning into our lives in 2025, in the face of so many profound challenges and difficulties?

Dale Biron On Poetry – Poetry Applied to Life’s Great Joys, Mysteries, and Calamities...

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A Beautiful Baffled Mind 2:26

18 weeks temu2:26

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Thanks so much to each of you who have been on this poetry-based journey during 2024. In case you're in need of a collection of essays that hitches up some amazing poems with those traits that are most needed by leaders, here it is. The book is a few years old, but the poems and leadership qualities featured are timeless. Stay tuned for 2025 and a whole new series of poetry enhanced podcasts... Find the Book here: (https://www.amazon.com/Poetry-Leader-Inside-You Mission/dp/1421837978)…

Dale Biron On Poetry – Poetry Applied to Life’s Great Joys, Mysteries, and Calamities...

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This Beauty Inside The House of Injustice 14:56

19 weeks temu14:56

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"The world is not made of atoms but of stories," said poet Muriel Rukeyser. This means good, beautiful, pro-social stories (which are often poems!) can help overcome the most unjust, anti-social, and destructive stories. Here's a poem that does just that...

Dale Biron On Poetry – Poetry Applied to Life’s Great Joys, Mysteries, and Calamities...

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The West Was Never Won 9:58

20 weeks temu9:58

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Perhaps we need to be a bit more humble, more careful, before we declare that we've won or lost. In this cast, the west. Turns out winning and losing may have everything to do with our timeframe, and that these binary categories we so often use, may not be up to the task. Here's a poem that muses on this very subject...…

Dale Biron On Poetry – Poetry Applied to Life’s Great Joys, Mysteries, and Calamities...

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What Is Your True Story? 8:52

21 weeks temu8:52

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Your true story is important. I don’t know its contents and contours, but I’m certain it exists. It reflects the world, and your uniquely entangled and wondrous place within it. Your true story lies deep within your body, at a kind of soul level, we might say. It has something to do with what gives you joy, satisfaction, and clarity, combined paradoxically, with what, over the years, has also scared you, and broken your heart wide open. You may have heard parts of this story, but there's always more to discover and tell if fully, and wholeheartedly invited. You are hereby fully, and wholeheartedly invited.…

Dale Biron On Poetry – Poetry Applied to Life’s Great Joys, Mysteries, and Calamities...

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At The Heart of Politics 9:04

22 weeks temu9:04

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Let's start a small, but significant political revolution with poetry. When someone asks you for your money and support, first give your heartfelt ideas, feelings, and opinions about what is right and wrong with politics. If they listen and respond well, then consider your support and money.

Dale Biron On Poetry – Poetry Applied to Life’s Great Joys, Mysteries, and Calamities...

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Declaration To Mother Earth & Your Own Heart 5:19

23 weeks temu5:19

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Write your own special declaration to Mother Earth and to the sanctity of your own interior self, meaning your heart and imagination...

Dale Biron On Poetry – Poetry Applied to Life’s Great Joys, Mysteries, and Calamities...

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An Exhausted, Down and Dirty, Bruised Hope 7:45

24 weeks temu7:45

7:45

For all those who are hurting, upset, and dismayed after the election...

Dale Biron On Poetry – Poetry Applied to Life’s Great Joys, Mysteries, and Calamities...

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I Am Tired, Even of Hope 5:34

25 weeks temu5:34

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A Paradox After the Election It is 7:27 PM, Wednesday, November 6th, and I am tired, even of hope. Or maybe it is hope, that’s grown old, and now helplessly tired of me. I long for a place of equanimity, where nothing can easily attach itself to what feels like permanently me. Choosing “now,” is likely all there is. And suspecting that at least half of this feels like some kind of paradox, I must first choose “yes,” and then at the same time “no,” as is needed. –Dale Biron…

Dale Biron On Poetry – Poetry Applied to Life’s Great Joys, Mysteries, and Calamities...

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Trust In A Time of Profound Mistrust 7:27

26 weeks temu7:27

7:27

Could it be we do not trust some things that we should, and do trust other things that we should not?

Dale Biron On Poetry – Poetry Applied to Life’s Great Joys, Mysteries, and Calamities...

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"It's Them!" The Demagogue's Dangerous Cry 6:55

27 weeks temu6:55

6:55

To scapegoat. To play fast and loose with the truth and especially with blame. To add insult to injury. To ignore any and all logical and systemic connections between cause and effect. To refuse any chance for deep, just, and real solutions. These are the dangerous moves of the demagogue...

Dale Biron On Poetry – Poetry Applied to Life’s Great Joys, Mysteries, and Calamities...

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There’s Wisdom In Feeling More Fully 6:03

28 weeks temu6:03

6:03

To "know about" something is largely an intelectual endevor. It's helpful, but incomplete. To actually "know" something deep in our bones, we must "feel" it more fully, which invites both the head and the heart to the party. This merging of our intellect with our emotions provides the possibility of wisdom. Poetry can help.…

Dale Biron On Poetry – Poetry Applied to Life’s Great Joys, Mysteries, and Calamities...

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The Secret To Reinventing Yourself 4:26

29 weeks temu4:26

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The world is made of stories. You are a story. Everyone you know and love is a story. Let's not accept stories about ourselves, others, or the world that are old, tattered, and no longer work...

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