Why Am I Telling You This?
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Why Am I Telling You This?
Pause with C.M. Rivers for a moment of poetry or an occasional report from his observatory, which houses notebooks in lieu of telescopes.
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Letters From Pops, Chapter 8: Lunch With John Lennon
During the Covid-19 pandemic of 2020, C.M.'s father was suddenly forced into temporary retirement. With his lifelong forward momentum brought to an a...
Letters From Pops, Chapter 7: A Succession of Pitiful Attempts
During the Covid-19 pandemic of 2020, C.M.'s father was suddenly forced into temporary retirement. With his lifelong forward momentum brought to an a...
Letters From Pops, Chapter 6: The Helmsman
During the Covid-19 pandemic of 2020, C.M.'s father was suddenly forced into temporary retirement. With his lifelong forward momentum brought to an a...
Letters From Pops, Chapter 5: The Flying Seven
During the Covid-19 pandemic of 2020, C.M.'s father was suddenly forced into temporary retirement. With his lifelong forward momentum brought to an a...
Letters From Pops, Chapter 4: Captain Buddy and the Stingray
During the Covid-19 pandemic of 2020, C.M.'s father was suddenly forced into temporary retirement. With his lifelong forward momentum brought to an a...
Letters From Pops, Chapter 3: A Winter Memory
During the Covid-19 pandemic of 2020, C.M.'s father was suddenly forced into temporary retirement. With his lifelong forward momentum brought to an a...
Letters From Pops, Chapter 2: What's A Beach?
During the Covid-19 pandemic of 2020, C.M.'s father was suddenly forced into temporary retirement. With his lifelong forward momentum brought to an a...
Letters From Pops, Chapter 1: I Turn Ten
During the Covid-19 pandemic of 2020, C.M.'s father was suddenly forced into temporary retirement. With his lifelong forward momentum brought to an a...
The Hands That Make Things
Season Two of "Why Am I Telling You This?" concludes with a poem about the visible and the invisible, the mysterious and the ordinary, body and spirit...
No Small Wonder
C.M. begins this poem by turning his attention to a small gathering of natural wonders that are often overlooked, then allows the poem to shift in ton...
The Wisdom of Not Being Industrious
In this short poem, a morning walk around the lake gets C.M. thinking about doing versus not-doing, action versus non-action.
"The Wisdom of Not...
Tread Lightly
In "Tread Lightly", C.M. suggests that not only is the journey itself the destination, but so is the spirit in which we take our journey and tread the...
Memorial
C.M. touches on middle age, memory, the art of listening to yourself, finding your own guidance within, and the danger of holding on to past trauma. ...
High Road
C.M. ruminates on the pathways people take and the journeys they make, both intentional and unintentional, in this poem from his upcoming book "Along...
Moonstone Beach
This poem - written from the perspective of a beach - recounts a married couple's vacation day. The beach knows everything there is to know about thi...
Rungs
This short poem is for anyone who's ever stopped to question where they were going, what they were doing - and why. C.M. invites the reader into a sp...
Reach
An old man's heart opens as he makes peace with his life and his approaching death, in this poem by C.M. Rivers. Excerpted from How To Carry Soup (Ho...
The Opening
The sensual and erotic intersect with spiritual renewal, in this poem from How To Carry Soup (Homebound Publications).
Post Mortem
C.M. picks through a handful of ways to die, excluding terminal velocity.
This episode is also available as a blog post: https://cmrivers.com/20...
Net Man
C.M. fixes his eye on his late grandfather, Captain Buddy. "Net Man" originally appeared in 2020, in poem form, in Crosswinds Poetry Journal in Rhode...
Beginner's Mind
C.M. brings invocation and whimsy together in this poetic prayer for the virtues of wisdom, restraint, patience and presence.
This poem original...
Vision Quest
Season Two of "Why Am I Telling You This?" opens with an ominous poem about identity and mortality.
Excerpted from How To Carry Soup: Poems by C...
Backbone
Written in the voice of an old man, this poem paints a picture of a life lived in service to simplicity. "Backbone" concludes Season One of "Why Am I...
Fellow Travelers
C.M. considers how kindness arises when we see every person as a Fellow Traveler - a compassion that naturally extends outward to others, as well as i...
Ephemeral
C.M. contemplates the transitions between seasons, and how easy it can be to miss them, in this poem from "How To Carry Soup" (Homebound Publications)...
Beep Beep!
Undeterred by a wicked head-cold, C.M. reaches into the vault and reads a snippet of memoir concerning one of the western world's greatest absurdities...
Me and Dean
C.M. pays tribute to Jack Kerouac with a poem about Dean Moriarty, the famed character from Kerouac's "On the Road", based on the real-life Neal Cassa...
This Winter Morning
C.M. examines a winter morning in this poem from his collection "How To Carry Soup" (Homebound Publications).
Stone Lion
C.M. spends a moment considering a statue in the garden, in this contemplative and whimsical poem from "How To Carry Soup" (Homebound Publications).
Incarnation
C.M. contemplates an example of transformation in the forest - contrasting it with the damage humans are doing to the very planet their survival depen...
Geese Flying Over
Deep in the frozen night in upstate New York, C.M. considers the geese who winter around the Finger Lakes, connecting the contemplative with the whims...
Pileated Woodpecker, Early April
C.M. does a little bird-watching in this poem from his upcoming book, Along the Way: Poems for the Wayward (Homebound Publications).
Withlacoochee River, 1986
In this nostalgic poem C.M. recalls the summer he turned twelve, 3000 miles away from his Oregon home, on a river in central Florida.
This episo...
Remodel
C.M. considers transformation from a whimsical perspective in this poem from his collection, How To Carry Soup (Homebound Publications).
Seagulls
C.M. fixes his eye on the seagull, bridging the gap between the contemplative and the comical with this poem from "How To Carry Soup" (Homebound Publi...
Service Worker
C.M. considers time, work, appreciation, humility, and the camel, in this poem from his upcoming book, "Along the Way: Poems for the Wayward" (Homebou...