“Spring Rain on the Cherry Orchard” by Sue Fagalde Lick. Click on link below to hear the poem voiced by Lick and the afterward by Sher Schwartz in one file.

September 22, 2024

“Spring Rain on the Cherry Orchard” by Sue Fagalde Lick. Click on link below to hear the poem voiced by Lick and the afterward by Sher Schwartz in one file.

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5 responses to ““Spring Rain on the Cherry Orchard” by Sue Fagalde Lick. Click on link below to hear the poem voiced by Lick and the afterward by Sher Schwartz in one file.”

dalechamp

September 22, 2024 at 5:42 pm

Like robins on a berry binge!

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Anonymous

September 22, 2024 at 9:04 pm

The beginning reminds me of Robert Hayden’s “Those Winter Sundays” – that father-son intimacy. This poem is so visual I can see it unfolding before me. That stillness of prayer . . . and then breakfast. Lovely!
-Suzy Harris

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1. Sher Schwartz
  
  September 23, 2024 at 7:19 am
  
  Agreed! Brings to life an episode and an historical period wrapped in clear images and an underlying rhythm that carries you along. I love the sense of urgent community at work.
  
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Anonymous

September 23, 2024 at 7:33 am

I enjoyed this important glimpse of ordinary life. A simple rain can impact a year’s effort in the life of a farmer. I like the new poem-music-afterward transition.

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1. Sher Schwartz
  
  September 23, 2024 at 7:36 am
  
  Thank you for listening and commenting. Regarding the site… I hope to become more skillful with the transitions between segments as I gain experience. Thanks for visiting…
  
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“I’m a retired Humanities professor, published essayist, poet, painter, singer, and old-time fiddle musician living on an historic two-hundred-acre farm in Eastern Oregon. I plant gardens for pollinators and revel in insects, bird dogs, donkeys, goats, cats, and American fantail and roller pigeons. My lyric landscapes are oak savannah, prairie, and riparian. Writing poetry gives me a way to express and question the rhythms I hear. My chapbook The Beautiful One’s Ark (2024) is available through The Poetry Box and online bookstores. Sher Poetry celebrates poetry as an oral language art. Each week I’ll share a poem from some of my work or from that of other poets who I love to hear.