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<rss xmlns:itunes="http://www.itunes.com/dtds/podcast-1.0.dtd" xmlns:googleplay="http://www.google.com/schemas/play-podcasts/1.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title>Poems for Everyone Else</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/show/poems-fro-everyone-else</link><description><![CDATA[Some of my favourite poems , either for the content, or the form, or the fact they come to life when they leap off the page and onto the tongue and into the ear.]]></description><atom:link href="https://www.spreaker.com/show/3274371/episodes/feed" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><language>en</language><category>Arts</category><copyright>Copyright roger jenkins</copyright><image><url>https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/849b7f6a6bc025df0af06bbd5d7715e6.jpg</url><title>Poems for Everyone Else</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/show/poems-fro-everyone-else</link></image><lastBuildDate>Wed, 06 Feb 2019 12:22:28 +0000</lastBuildDate><itunes:author>roger jenkins</itunes:author><itunes:owner><itunes:name>roger jenkins</itunes:name><itunes:email>feeds@spreaker.com</itunes:email></itunes:owner><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/849b7f6a6bc025df0af06bbd5d7715e6.jpg"/><itunes:subtitle>Some of my favourite poems , either for the content, or the form, or the fact they come to life when they leap off the page and onto the tongue and into the ear.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[Some of my favourite poems , either for the content, or the form, or the fact they come to life when they leap off the page and onto the tongue and into the ear.]]></itunes:summary><itunes:category text="Arts"/><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><itunes:type>episodic</itunes:type><googleplay:author>roger jenkins</googleplay:author><googleplay:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/849b7f6a6bc025df0af06bbd5d7715e6.jpg"/><googleplay:email>feeds@spreaker.com</googleplay:email><googleplay:description>Some of my favourite poems , either for the content, or the form, or the fact they come to life when they leap off the page and onto the tongue and into the ear.</googleplay:description><googleplay:category text="Arts"/><googleplay:explicit>No</googleplay:explicit><item><title>Poems of Solitary Delights - Tachibana Akemi</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/user/10970476/poems-of-solitary-delights</link><description><![CDATA[A tanka poem is a longer haiku - 5 lines with 5,7,5,7,7 syllables]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/16964974</guid><pubDate>Wed, 06 Feb 2019 12:21:54 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://api.spreaker.com/download/episode/16964974/poems_of_solitary_delights.mp3" length="1643136" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>roger jenkins</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>A tanka poem is a longer haiku - 5 lines with 5,7,5,7,7 syllables</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[A tanka poem is a longer haiku - 5 lines with 5,7,5,7,7 syllables]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>52</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/9853ccf5f914a3de5726608cd4338852.jpg"/><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><googleplay:author>roger jenkins</googleplay:author><googleplay:description>A tanka poem is a longer haiku - 5 lines with 5,7,5,7,7 syllables</googleplay:description><googleplay:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/9853ccf5f914a3de5726608cd4338852.jpg"/><googleplay:explicit>No</googleplay:explicit></item><item><title>Empty Space - Lao Tzu</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/user/10970476/empty-space-lao-tzu</link><description><![CDATA[from the Tao Te Ching, the Way.]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/16964965</guid><pubDate>Wed, 06 Feb 2019 12:17:42 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://api.spreaker.com/download/episode/16964965/empty_space_lao_tzu.mp3" length="1434240" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>roger jenkins</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>from the Tao Te Ching, the Way.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[from the Tao Te Ching, the Way.]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>45</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/9251a26f00bfea3effad653d0a6a9a0c.jpg"/><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><googleplay:author>roger jenkins</googleplay:author><googleplay:description>from the Tao Te Ching, the Way.</googleplay:description><googleplay:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/9251a26f00bfea3effad653d0a6a9a0c.jpg"/><googleplay:explicit>No</googleplay:explicit></item><item><title>Cloths of Heaven - William Butler Yeats</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/user/10970476/cloths-of-heaven</link><description><![CDATA[Sadly this is a poem that sprang to mind on several hopeful occasions in my youth. The loved ones didn't walk on my dreams, just walked away in another direction and in such a manner I didn't  care to note if they were treading softly or not.]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/16964945</guid><pubDate>Wed, 06 Feb 2019 12:15:14 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://api.spreaker.com/download/episode/16964945/cloths_of_heaven.mp3" length="1160832" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>roger jenkins</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>Sadly this is a poem that sprang to mind on several hopeful occasions in my youth. The loved ones didn't walk on my dreams, just walked away in another direction and in such a manner I didn't  care to note if they were treading softly or not.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[Sadly this is a poem that sprang to mind on several hopeful occasions in my youth. The loved ones didn't walk on my dreams, just walked away in another direction and in such a manner I didn't  care to note if they were treading softly or not.]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>37</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/bb045b85cb1cf1fe1e96130a526c300d.jpg"/><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><googleplay:author>roger jenkins</googleplay:author><googleplay:description>Sadly this is a poem that sprang to mind on several hopeful occasions in my youth. The loved ones didn't walk on my dreams, just walked away in another direction and in such a manner I didn't  care to note if they were treading softly or not.</googleplay:description><googleplay:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/bb045b85cb1cf1fe1e96130a526c300d.jpg"/><googleplay:explicit>No</googleplay:explicit></item><item><title>Lake Isle of Innisfree - William Butler Yeats</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/user/10970476/lake-isle-of-innisfree</link><description><![CDATA[My father's favourite poem and the last one he ever heard before he drifted into painkiller sleep and succumbed to lung cancer.  It was read to him by a Filipino nurse, who resourcefully whipped out her phone and googled Innisfree when he asked her to read it.]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/16964887</guid><pubDate>Wed, 06 Feb 2019 12:09:56 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://api.spreaker.com/download/episode/16964887/lake_isle_of_innisfree.mp3" length="2202240" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>roger jenkins</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>My father's favourite poem and the last one he ever heard before he drifted into painkiller sleep and succumbed to lung cancer.  It was read to him by a Filipino nurse, who resourcefully whipped out her phone and googled Innisfree when he asked her to...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[My father's favourite poem and the last one he ever heard before he drifted into painkiller sleep and succumbed to lung cancer.  It was read to him by a Filipino nurse, who resourcefully whipped out her phone and googled Innisfree when he asked her to read it.]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>69</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/c618024331fc9c93fcde2e517e284426.jpg"/><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><googleplay:author>roger jenkins</googleplay:author><googleplay:description>My father's favourite poem and the last one he ever heard before he drifted into painkiller sleep and succumbed to lung cancer.  It was read to him by a Filipino nurse, who resourcefully whipped out her phone and googled Innisfree when he asked her to read it.</googleplay:description><googleplay:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/c618024331fc9c93fcde2e517e284426.jpg"/><googleplay:explicit>No</googleplay:explicit></item><item><title>Balinese Dance - Roger Jenkins</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/user/10970476/balinese-dance</link><description><![CDATA[Written on the flight home from Denpassar, after my first visit to Bali in 1980]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/16943521</guid><pubDate>Mon, 04 Feb 2019 07:54:14 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://api.spreaker.com/download/episode/16943521/balinese_dance.mp3" length="730173" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>roger jenkins</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>Written on the flight home from Denpassar, after my first visit to Bali in 1980</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[Written on the flight home from Denpassar, after my first visit to Bali in 1980]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>46</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/abf2a54c3cec537f8574a1e01ef83f1e.jpg"/><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><googleplay:author>roger jenkins</googleplay:author><googleplay:description>Written on the flight home from Denpassar, after my first visit to Bali in 1980</googleplay:description><googleplay:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/abf2a54c3cec537f8574a1e01ef83f1e.jpg"/><googleplay:explicit>No</googleplay:explicit></item><item><title>The Night Singapore Changed Forever - Roger Jenknis</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/user/10970476/the-night-singapore-changed-forever_1</link><description><![CDATA[A fantasy. a fiction. Goh Chok Tong (Singapore's second Prime Minister) dancing on a bar top? With (Lee) Hsien Loong (Prime Minister #3) and Tony Tan (Deputy PM and future President) and Abdullah Tarmuggi (Speaker of the House)??!! Dream on! Enjoy!]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/16943049</guid><pubDate>Mon, 04 Feb 2019 06:15:56 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://api.spreaker.com/download/episode/16943049/the_night_singapore_changed_forever.mp3" length="6036864" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>roger jenkins</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>A fantasy. a fiction. Goh Chok Tong (Singapore's second Prime Minister) dancing on a bar top? With (Lee) Hsien Loong (Prime Minister #3) and Tony Tan (Deputy PM and future President) and Abdullah Tarmuggi (Speaker of the House)??!! Dream on! Enjoy!</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[A fantasy. a fiction. Goh Chok Tong (Singapore's second Prime Minister) dancing on a bar top? With (Lee) Hsien Loong (Prime Minister #3) and Tony Tan (Deputy PM and future President) and Abdullah Tarmuggi (Speaker of the House)??!! Dream on! Enjoy!]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>189</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/1d6b33f704aabb4ba1bffab95e7b19d2.jpg"/><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><googleplay:author>roger jenkins</googleplay:author><googleplay:description>A fantasy. a fiction. Goh Chok Tong (Singapore's second Prime Minister) dancing on a bar top? With (Lee) Hsien Loong (Prime Minister #3) and Tony Tan (Deputy PM and future President) and Abdullah Tarmuggi (Speaker of the House)??!! Dream on! Enjoy!</googleplay:description><googleplay:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/1d6b33f704aabb4ba1bffab95e7b19d2.jpg"/><googleplay:explicit>No</googleplay:explicit></item><item><title>Three Little Maids - Roger Jenkins</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/user/10970476/three-little-maids</link><description><![CDATA[Written for a drama at CHIJ St Nichholas Girls School about the changing roles of women in singapore, the starting point for this is very definitely Gilbert and Sullivan's song in The Mikado.  But scrub away the comedy and see what's underneath . . .]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/16942828</guid><pubDate>Mon, 04 Feb 2019 05:29:17 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://api.spreaker.com/download/episode/16942828/three_little_maids.mp3" length="3037824" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>roger jenkins</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>Written for a drama at CHIJ St Nichholas Girls School about the changing roles of women in singapore, the starting point for this is very definitely Gilbert and Sullivan's song in The Mikado.  But scrub away the comedy and see what's underneath . . .</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[Written for a drama at CHIJ St Nichholas Girls School about the changing roles of women in singapore, the starting point for this is very definitely Gilbert and Sullivan's song in The Mikado.  But scrub away the comedy and see what's underneath . . .]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>95</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/2c9f9d675660293cb68f309084d1e79f.jpg"/><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><googleplay:author>roger jenkins</googleplay:author><googleplay:description>Written for a drama at CHIJ St Nichholas Girls School about the changing roles of women in singapore, the starting point for this is very definitely Gilbert and Sullivan's song in The Mikado.  But scrub away the comedy and see what's underneath . . .</googleplay:description><googleplay:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/2c9f9d675660293cb68f309084d1e79f.jpg"/><googleplay:explicit>No</googleplay:explicit></item><item><title>Paddy Stole The Rope</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/user/10970476/paddy-stole-the-rope</link><description><![CDATA[This is a traditional English folksong which I know through the wonderful performances of Tim Hart and Maddy Prior]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/16936971</guid><pubDate>Sun, 03 Feb 2019 14:07:51 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://api.spreaker.com/download/episode/16936971/paddy_stole_the_rope.mp3" length="5414784" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>roger jenkins</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>This is a traditional English folksong which I know through the wonderful performances of Tim Hart and Maddy Prior</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[This is a traditional English folksong which I know through the wonderful performances of Tim Hart and Maddy Prior]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>170</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/849b7f6a6bc025df0af06bbd5d7715e6.jpg"/><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><googleplay:author>roger jenkins</googleplay:author><googleplay:description>This is a traditional English folksong which I know through the wonderful performances of Tim Hart and Maddy Prior</googleplay:description><googleplay:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/849b7f6a6bc025df0af06bbd5d7715e6.jpg"/><googleplay:explicit>No</googleplay:explicit></item><item><title>Richard Cory - Edward Arlington Robinson</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/user/10970476/richard-cory-1</link><description><![CDATA[This is the original, not the Simon and Garfunkel text from their wonderful song-version.]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/16488264</guid><pubDate>Sun, 03 Feb 2019 09:56:51 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://api.spreaker.com/download/episode/16488264/richard_cory_1.mp3" length="1732339" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>roger jenkins</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>This is the original, not the Simon and Garfunkel text from their wonderful song-version.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[This is the original, not the Simon and Garfunkel text from their wonderful song-version.]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>55</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/522152752c475589219c42016b45e152.jpg"/><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><googleplay:author>roger jenkins</googleplay:author><googleplay:description>This is the original, not the Simon and Garfunkel text from their wonderful song-version.</googleplay:description><googleplay:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/522152752c475589219c42016b45e152.jpg"/><googleplay:explicit>No</googleplay:explicit></item><item><title>Different Timetables - Tien Ch'ien, from 170 poems trans by Arthur Waley</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/user/10970476/different-timetables</link><description><![CDATA[I was once a school teacher, so timetables have long had a resonance with me.]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/16488224</guid><pubDate>Sun, 03 Feb 2019 09:56:17 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://api.spreaker.com/download/episode/16488224/different_timetables.mp3" length="613248" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>roger jenkins</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>I was once a school teacher, so timetables have long had a resonance with me.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[I was once a school teacher, so timetables have long had a resonance with me.]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>20</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/50d5a31f7d148e76677d0a63079f013f.jpg"/><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><googleplay:author>roger jenkins</googleplay:author><googleplay:description>I was once a school teacher, so timetables have long had a resonance with me.</googleplay:description><googleplay:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/50d5a31f7d148e76677d0a63079f013f.jpg"/><googleplay:explicit>No</googleplay:explicit></item><item><title>The Little Cart - anon, from Arthur Waley's collection of 170 Chinese Poems</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/user/10970476/little-cart</link><description><![CDATA[I use this poem with tudents, asking them to make a storyboard of eight frames, capturing the long. the medium and the close-up shots (perhaps the very close-ups of the tears falling?) Poetry can be so cinematic.  How old are the man and the woman?   And who would you cast as your leads?]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/16488334</guid><pubDate>Sun, 03 Feb 2019 09:56:06 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://api.spreaker.com/download/episode/16488334/little_cart.mp3" length="2145408" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>roger jenkins</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>I use this poem with tudents, asking them to make a storyboard of eight frames, capturing the long. the medium and the close-up shots (perhaps the very close-ups of the tears falling?) Poetry can be so cinematic.  How old are the man and the woman?...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[I use this poem with tudents, asking them to make a storyboard of eight frames, capturing the long. the medium and the close-up shots (perhaps the very close-ups of the tears falling?) Poetry can be so cinematic.  How old are the man and the woman?   And who would you cast as your leads?]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>68</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/4c017cc1a455b24ca458628deea6c4be.jpg"/><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><googleplay:author>roger jenkins</googleplay:author><googleplay:description>I use this poem with tudents, asking them to make a storyboard of eight frames, capturing the long. the medium and the close-up shots (perhaps the very close-ups of the tears falling?) Poetry can be so cinematic.  How old are the man and the woman?   And who would you cast as your leads?</googleplay:description><googleplay:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/4c017cc1a455b24ca458628deea6c4be.jpg"/><googleplay:explicit>No</googleplay:explicit></item></channel></rss>
