ee cummings in just read by the poet

ee cummings in just read by the poet

[in Just-]

by: ee cummings

in Just-
spring when the world is mud-
luscious the little
lame balloonman

whistles far and wee

and eddieandbill come
running from marbles and
piracies and it's
spring

when the world is puddle-wonderful

the queer
old balloonman whistles
far and wee
and bettyandisbel come dancing

from hop-scotch and jump-rope and

it's
spring
and

the

goat-footed

balloonMan whistles
far
and
wee

Percy Bysshe Shelley Ode To The West Wind read by John Gielgud

Percy Bysshe Shelley Ode To The West Wind read by John Gielgud

Ode to the West Wind

By: Percy Bysshe Shelley. 1792–1822

I


O WILD West Wind, thou breath of Autumn's being
Thou from whose unseen presence the leaves dead
Are driven like ghosts from an enchanter fleeing,

Yellow, and black, and pale, and hectic red,
Pestilence-stricken multitudes! O thou 5
Who chariotest to their dark wintry bed

The wingèd seeds, where they lie cold and low,
Each like a corpse within its grave, until
Thine azure sister of the Spring shall blow

Her clarion o'er the dreaming earth, and fill 10
(Driving sweet buds like flocks to feed in air)
With living hues and odours plain and hill;

Wild Spirit, which art moving everywhere;
Destroyer and preserver; hear, O hear!

II


Thou on whose stream, 'mid the steep sky's commotion, 15
Loose clouds like earth's decaying leaves are shed,
Shook from the tangled boughs of heaven and ocean,

Angels of rain and lightning! there are spread
On the blue surface of thine airy surge,
Like the bright hair uplifted from the head 20

Of some fierce Mænad, even from the dim verge
Of the horizon to the zenith's height,
The locks of the approaching storm. Thou dirge

Of the dying year, to which this closing night
Will be the dome of a vast sepulchre, 25
Vaulted with all thy congregated might

Of vapours, from whose solid atmosphere
Black rain, and fire, and hail, will burst: O hear!

III


Thou who didst waken from his summer dreams
The blue Mediterranean, where he lay, 30
Lull'd by the coil of his crystàlline streams,

Beside a pumice isle in Baiæ's bay,
And saw in sleep old palaces and towers
Quivering within the wave's intenser day,

All overgrown with azure moss, and flowers 35
So sweet, the sense faints picturing them! Thou
For whose path the Atlantic's level powers

Cleave themselves into chasms, while far below
The sea-blooms and the oozy woods which wear
The sapless foliage of the ocean, know 40

Thy voice, and suddenly grow gray with fear,
And tremble and despoil themselves: O hear!

IV


If I were a dead leaf thou mightest bear;
If I were a swift cloud to fly with thee;
A wave to pant beneath thy power, and share 45

The impulse of thy strength, only less free
Than thou, O uncontrollable! if even
I were as in my boyhood, and could be

The comrade of thy wanderings over heaven,
As then, when to outstrip thy skiey speed 50
Scarce seem'd a vision—I would ne'er have striven

As thus with thee in prayer in my sore need.
O! lift me as a wave, a leaf, a cloud!
I fall upon the thorns of life! I bleed!

A heavy weight of hours has chain'd and bow'd 55
One too like thee—tameless, and swift, and proud.

V


Make me thy lyre, even as the forest is:
What if my leaves are falling like its own?
The tumult of thy mighty harmonies

Will take from both a deep autumnal tone, 60
Sweet though in sadness. Be thou, Spirit fierce,
My spirit! Be thou me, impetuous one!

Drive my dead thoughts over the universe,
Like wither'd leaves, to quicken a new birth;
And, by the incantation of this verse, 65

Scatter, as from an unextinguish'd hearth
Ashes and sparks, my words among mankind!
Be through my lips to unawaken'd earth

The trumpet of a prophecy! O Wind,
If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind? 70

Beverly Flaxington: Make Your SHIFT - Blog Business Success Radio

Listen to Wayne Hurlbert on Blog Talk Radio

Speaker, coach, founder and principal of The Collaborative, and author of the inspirational and achievement oriented book Make Your SHIFT: The Five Most Powerful Moves You Can Make to Get Where YOU Want to Go, Beverly Flaxington describes why people are so often unable to make real changes in their lives. Beverly Flaxington adds the crucial human element to her concept of why real transformation is so difficult fro so many individuals. Beverly shares her tested and proven program that she calls the SHIFT Model. This five part system incorporates the human nature element to overcome that loss of motivation and commitment that so often derails a personal change initiative. Beverly offers a series of principles that create lasting change and help people achieve their personal goals. She also presents ideas for utilizing the SHIFT Model within organizations to transform a company culture.

Beverly Flaxington is my internet radio show guest on Blog Business Success; hosted live on BlogTalkRadio.

The show airs live on Thursday, January 10, at 8:00 pm Eastern Time; 5:00 pm Pacific Time.

Speaker, coach, founder and principal of The Collaborative, and author of the inspirational and achievement oriented book Make Your SHIFT: The Five Most Powerful Moves You Can Make to Get Where YOU Want to Go, Beverly Flaxington describes why people are so often unable to make real changes in their lives. You will learn:

* Why so many people fail to achieve their personal goals

* Why understanding the element of human nature is critical to change

* Why the SHIFT Model of change addresses the human element

* How to apply the proven SHIFT Model to your own life

Beverly Flaxington (photo left) is a two-time bestselling and Gold-award winning author. She is a successful corporate consultant, a behavioral expert, a college professor, a hypnotherapist and an executive coach.

Bev trademarked her own change management and goal achievement model called S.H.I.F.T. Her strategies have helped hundreds of people change their lives and their relationships for the better!

Bev, a renowned College Professor and Gold Award-winning author, has spent over two decades working with individuals and groups as a hypnotherapist, career coach, corporate consultant, behavioral expert, and change management leader. She has written Understanding Other People: The Five Secrets to Human Behavior and The 7 Steps to Effective Business Building for Financial Advisors, and she’s co-authored Wealthbuilding: A Consumer’s Guide to Making Profitable and Comfortable Investment Decisions.

She has appeared in too many newspapers, magazines, radio stations and major television networks to mention here, from ABC to FOX, and from Illinois to Texas.

My book review of Make Your SHIFT: The Five Most Powerful Moves You Can Make to Get Where YOU Want to Go by Beverly Flaxington.

Listen live on Thursday at 8:00 pm Eastern, 5:00 pm Pacific time.



If you miss this very informative show, it will be available for free download as a podcast for iPod, iTunes, and MP3 players; or play it right on your computer. To download this, or any other of my guest interviews, go to the Blog Business Success host page and click on Archived Segments. Once there, click on the podcast icon at the end of the episode description, to download the show free of charge for your listening enjoyment. You can also subscribe to the show feed.



To call in questions for my guest, the number is: (347) 996-5832

Let's talk with speaker, coach, founder and principal of The Collaborative, and author of the inspirational and achievement oriented book Make Your SHIFT: The Five Most Powerful Moves You Can Make to Get Where YOU Want to Go, Beverly Flaxington, as she describes why people are so often unable to make real changes in their lives. Beverly Flaxington adds the crucial human element to her concept of why real transformation is so difficult fro so many individuals. Beverly shares her tested and proven program that she calls the SHIFT Model. This five part system incorporates the human nature element to overcome that loss of motivation and commitment that so often derails a personal change initiative. Beverly offers a series of principles that create lasting change and help people achieve their personal goals. She also presents ideas for utilizing the SHIFT Model within organizations to transform a company culture on Blog Business Success Radio.