Brian’s Poetry Oasis

•Reflecting on difficult times that were filled with Sadness, Poet Brian explores how embracing Sorrow - both past and present - can be a worthwhile path.•Glad to be Sad © 2020, 2024 by Brian Crouth•Photo credits: Brian Crouth © 2020, 2024 / Unknown Artist / Unsplash / All other photos in the public domain.

•Poetry, Performance, Podcast Production © 2019, 2024 Brian Crouth / Photo: Mara Ket / Music: “Poets” Ciaran Delaney “Little Things” Valerie Gomes www.valeriegomes.com/ http://bit.ly/3vXcS2y • Send your thoughts & comments to: brianspoetryoasis@gmail.com • Support Poet Brian's Creative and Podcast Production Time and Efforts: https://paypal.me/2PoetBrian?locale.x=en_US No amount is too small. Thanks!

•Poetry, Podcast, Performance, Production © 2018, 2020, 2023 by Brian Crouth •Photo credit: Brian Crouth / Song credit: “The First Noel” (instrumental background) W.G. Snuffy Walden ©2002 BMG / “The First Noel”(Jazz version) The Evergreen Trio feat. Ellinor ©2016 Epidemic Sound •Send your thoughts, comments, inspirations to: brianspoetryoasis@gmail.com December sunlight pushed its way through an oak tree's branches, trailing off before it could reach the picture window in a kitchen where they sat. It was one more day to Christmas, and the anniversary. (from “The Anniversary”)

•Poetry, Podcast, Performance, Production © 2019, 2020, 2023 by BrianCrouth / Photo Credit: Mitchell McCleary / Music: “Svalbard” by Julyan Brynn •Oasis podcast email notifications: https://subscribebyemail.com/anchor.fm/s/130995e4/podcast/rss •Send your thoughts, comments, inspirations to: brianspoetryoasis@gmail.com There were leaves of gold, damp and sidewalk strewn, for the wind and rain had stopped by then. It happened to be Halloween... (from “Why He Would Walk”)

•Poetry, Podcast, Performance, Production ©2023 by Brian Crouth / Photo Credit: Robert Woeger © 2020 https://bit.ly/46QrAFD Music: “Say Something” Blood Red Sun https://bit.ly/3QlHxyv “Tale of Two” Rebecca Mardal https://bit.ly/46ZrbRs •Send your thoughts & comments to brianspoetryoasis@gmail.com •Children in war torn regions need our help: UNICEF https://bit.ly/3Mugmh1 / Save the Children https://bit.ly/3seOQhN / UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) https://bit.ly/3tsawnx /

•Poetry, Podcast, Performance, Production ©1974, 2020, 2023 by Brian Crouth / Illustration Credit: Faye Tucker © 2023 https://bit.ly/3DZtYgW Music: “By the Creek” Magnus Ludvigsson https://spoti.fi/3KH0TL6 •The children of Ukraine need our help: UNICEF https://bit.ly/3Mugmh1 / Save the Children https://bit.ly/3pwxOHA / UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) https://bit.ly/3tsawnx / •Send your thoughts & comments to brianspoetryoasis@gmail.com

•Poetry, Podcast, Performance, Production ©2022, 2023 by Brian Crouth / Photo: © AlCH2023 Music: “In the Midst” Lalo Brickman https://spoti.fi/3OMVi91 / •The children of Ukraine need our help: UNICEF https://bit.ly/3Mugmh1 / Save the Children https://bit.ly/3pwxOHA / UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) https://bit.ly/3tsawnx / •Send your thoughts & comments to brianspoetryoasis@gmail.com

•Poetry, Podcast, Performance, Production ©2022, 2023 by Brian Crouth / Photo: Daniele Franchise (Portugal) https://bit.ly/3mOJQ13 Music: “A Gentle Reminder” Hanna Lindgren https://spoti.fi/3oDOxLp / •The children of Ukraine need our help: UNICEF https://bit.ly/3Mugmh1 / Save the Children https://bit.ly/3pwxOHA / UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) https://bit.ly/3tsawnx / •Send your thoughts & comments to brianspoetryoasis@gmail.com

•Poetry, Podcast, Performance, Production © 2020, 2023 Brian Crouth / Photo Credit: Adrien King (Oregon) https://www.kadrien.com / •The children of Ukraine need our help: UNICEF https://bit.ly/3Mugmh1 / Save the Children https://bit.ly/3pwxOHA / UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) https://bit.ly/3tsawnx / •Send your thoughts & comments to brianspoetryoasis@gmail.com

•Poetry, Podcast, Performance, Production © 2023 Brian Crouth / Photo Credit: “Say goodbye” Максим Степаненко Russia https://bit.ly/3ZSWCJC Music: “The Wait Is Finally Over” Wanderer's Trove https://spoti.fi/3ytfzHi / •The children of Ukraine need our help: UNICEF https://bit.ly/3Mugmh1 / Save the Children https://bit.ly/3pwxOHA / UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) https://bit.ly/3tsawnx / •Send your thoughts & comments to brianspoetryoasis@gmail.com

•Poetry, Podcast, Performance, Production © 1984, 2023 Brian Crouth / Photo Credit: Andriyko Podilnyk Lviv Ukraine https://bit.ly/3xTW5eG Music: “I Fall In Love Too Easily” Chet Baker Quartet https://spoti.fi/3IE9MDs / •The children of Ukraine need our help: UNICEF https://bit.ly/3Mugmh1 / Save the Children https://bit.ly/3pwxOHA / UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) https://bit.ly/3tsawnx / •Send your thoughts & comments to brianspoetryoasis@gmail.com

•Poetry, Podcast, Performance, Production © 2017, 2022 Brian Crouth / Photo Credit: Julius Drost Berlin, Germany https://bit.ly/3vD1EwA Music: “Little Wonders” Ranner Sillard https://spoti.fi/3ZNXkbZ •The children of Ukraine need our help: UNICEF https://bit.ly/3Mugmh1 / Save the Children https://bit.ly/3pwxOHA / UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) https://bit.ly/3tsawnx / •Send your thoughts & comments to brianspoetryoasis@gmail.com

•Poetry, Podcast, Performance, Production © 2022 Brian Crouth / Photo Credit: Liane Metzler https://bit.ly/3D6f8FY Music: “Patchwork” Ever So Blue https://spoti.fi/3ESjNfJ / •The children of Ukraine need our help: UNICEF https://bit.ly/3Mugmh1 / Save the Children https://bit.ly/3pwxOHA / UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) https://bit.ly/3tsawnx / •Send your thoughts & comments to brianspoetryoasis@gmail.com

•Poetry, Podcast, Performance, Production, Soft pastel “Memory of a Sunset in Truro” © 2022 Brian Crouth Music: “Sunsets Somewhere” Guustavv https://spoti.fi/3R2bTE0 •The children of Ukraine need our help: UNICEF https://bit.ly/3Mugmh1 / Save the Children https://bit.ly/3pwxOHA / UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) https://bit.ly/3tsawnx / •Send your thoughts & comments to brianspoetryoasis@gmail.com

•Poetry, Podcast, Performance, Production © 2022 Brian Crouth / Photo Credit: Jen Theodore https://bit.ly/3QHGh6m Music: “The Road to Odessa” Lama House https://spoti.fi/3TaksOj •The children of Ukraine need our help: UNICEF https://bit.ly/3Mugmh1 / Save the Children https://bit.ly/3pwxOHA / UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) https://bit.ly/3tsawnx / •Send your thoughts & comments to brianspoetryoasis@gmail.com

•Poetry, Podcast, Performance, Production ©2019, 2020, 2022 Brian Crouth / Image Credit: “Learning to Love Our Curves” Cate White © 2019 https://catewhite.com/ Music: “Tranquillity” Dawn, Dawn, Dawn https://spoti.fi/3zyAtVD •The children of Ukraine need our help: UNICEF https://bit.ly/3Mugmh1 / Save the Children https://bit.ly/3pwxOHA / UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) https://bit.ly/3tsawnx / •Send your thoughts & comments to brianspoetryoasis@gmail.com

•Poetry, Podcast, Performance, Production ©2022 by Brian Crouth / Photo: Bob Brewer https://bit.ly/3NMaizW Music: “Song for Mauve” American Legion https://spoti.fi/3amehoK / •The children of Ukraine need our help: UNICEF https://bit.ly/3Mugmh1 / Save the Children https://bit.ly/3pwxOHA / UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) https://bit.ly/3tsawnx / •Send your thoughts & comments to brianspoetryoasis@gmail.com

•Poetry, Podcast, Performance, Production ©2022 by Brian Crouth / Music: “A Gentle Reminder” Hanna Lindgren https://bit.ly/3LHz7wB •The children of Ukraine need our help: UNICEF https://bit.ly/3Mugmh1 / Save the Children https://bit.ly/3pwxOHA / UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) https://bit.ly/3tsawnx / •Send your thoughts & comments to brianspoetryoasis@gmail.com

•Poetry, Podcast, Performance, Production © 2018, 2022 by Brian Crouth / Photo: Khadeeja Yasser https://bit.ly/3wPTDXb Music: “Midnight in Carmel” Wendy Marcini https://bit.ly/36LKGDB •Send your thoughts & comments to brianspoetryoasis@gmail.com

*The children of Ukraine need our help: UNICEF https://bit.ly/3Mugmh1 / Save the Children https://bit.ly/3pwxOHA / UN Refugee Agency https://bit.ly/3tsawnx •Poetry, Podcast, Performance, Production © 1990, 2022 by Brian Crouth / Photo: Patty Brito / Music: “Meadow” Sebastian Winskog •Paul Simon sings “The Obvious Child” https://bit.ly/3vCd0lI •Send your thoughts & comments to brianspoetryoasis@gmail.com •Support Poet Brian's Creative and Podcast Production Time and Efforts https://paypal.me/2PoetBrian?locale.x=en_US No amount is too small. Thanks!

•Poetry, Podcast, Performance, Production © 2019, 2022 Brian Crouth / Photo: Karl JK Hedin / Music: “Poets” Ciaran Delaney / “Little Things” © 2014 Valerie Gomes More @ valeriegomes.com • Receive Oasis podcast email notifications: https://bit.ly/3j0gR4q • Send your thoughts & comments to: brianspoetryoasis@gmail.com • Support Poet Brian's Creative and Podcast Production Time and Efforts: https://paypal.me/2PoetBrian?locale.x=en_US No amount is too small. Thanks!

•Spotify link for podcast w/ Bonus Music: https://spoti.fi/3ybIRZM •Music video #9 Dream: https://bit.ly/3DBYB9R Song from “Walls and Bridges ©1974 by John Lennon / Video edited in 2003 using footage from John & Yoko's films “Smile” and “Two Virgins” (1968) and outtakes from “Imagine” (1971) •”Sky Piece III, IV, V, VIII” ©2013 by Yoko Ono from her book Acorn published by Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill •Poetry, Podcast, Performance, Production ©2001, 2020, 2021 Brian Crouth / Photo: Album Art for John Lennon's “Mind Games” ©1973 by John Lennon / Music: “Transparent Curtains” by Nylonwings; “Japanese Garden” by Sight of Wonders •Receive Oasis podcast email notifications: https://bit.ly/3j0gR4q •Send your thoughts & comments to: brianspoetryoasis@gmail.com •Support Poet Brian's Creative and Podcast Production Time and Efforts: https://paypal.me/2PoetBrian?locale.x=en_US No amount is too small. Thanks!

•Poetry, Podcast, Performance, Production © 2001, 2021 Brian Crouth / Photo: Wolf Zimmerman / Music: “Southern” Daniel Kaede • Receive Oasis podcast email notifications: https://bit.ly/3j0gR4q • Send your thoughts & comments to: brianspoetryoasis@gmail.com • Support Poet Brian's Creative and Podcast Production Time and Efforts: https://paypal.me/2PoetBrian?locale.x=en_US No amount is too small. Thanks!

“I am leaving you with a gift - peace of mind and heart. And the peace I give is the peace the world cannot give.” -Jesus from the Gospel of John • Poetry, Podcast, Performance, Production © 2021 Brian Crouth / Photo: Aaron Burden / Music: “When I Realized” John Barzetti • Yellin, Deena. “Millions giving up organized religion: America's fast-growing movement: The ‘Nones'.” USA Today, October 4, 2021 p. 1A+. • Receive Oasis podcast email notifications: https://bit.ly/3j0gR4q • Send your thoughts & comments to: brianspoetryoasis@gmail.com • Support Poet Brian's Creative and Podcast Production Time and Efforts: https://paypal.me/2PoetBrian?locale.x=en_US No amount is too small. Thanks!

Poetry, Podcast, Performance, Production © 2019, 2021 Brian Crouth with the exception of “Nurse's Song” by William Blake from his Songs of Innocence / Photo credit: Annie Spratt / Song: “Today is a Gift” Yi Natiro To hear an extended version of this episode with Bonus Music on Spotify: https://spoti.fi/2VFlgSG Enjoy Joni Mitchell singing “The Circle Game” w/ lyrics for this poignant song: https://bit.ly/3z4HPOd • Receive Oasis podcast email notifications: https://bit.ly/3j0gR4q • Send your thoughts & comments to: brianspoetryoasis@gmail.com • Support Poet Brian's Creative and Podcast Production Time and Efforts: https://paypal.me/2PoetBrian?locale.x=en_US No amount is too small. Thanks!

Poetry, Podcast, Performance, Production © 2018, 2021 Brian Crouth / Photo credit: Matthew Fassnacht / Song credit: “Frontiers Are Where You Find Them” Trevor Kowalski Enjoy Mama Cass Elliott singing “Make Your Own Kind of Music”: https://bit.ly/2XSS4s4 • Receive Oasis podcast email notifications: https://bit.ly/3j0gR4q • Send your thoughts & comments to: brianspoetryoasis@gmail.com • Support Poet Brian's Creative and Podcast Production Time and Efforts: https://paypal.me/2PoetBrian?locale.x=en_US No amount is too small. Thanks!

Poetry, Podcast, Performance, Production © 2019, 2021 Brian Crouth / Photo credit: Charisse Kenion/ Song credit:“In the Stillness” Megan Wofford Watch the video recording of W.S. Merwin reading his Poem, “Yesterday”: https://bit.ly/3rHtfKi • Oasis email notifications: https://bit.ly/3j0gR4q • Send your thoughts, comments, inspirations to: brianspoetryoasis@gmail.com • Support Poet Brian's Creative Time and Efforts: https://paypal.me/2PoetBrian?locale.x=en_US No amount is too small. Thank you!

Poetry, Podcast, Performance, Production © 2020, 2021 Brian Crouth / Photo credit: Johan Van Wambeke (Unsplash) • Oasis podcast email notifications: https://subscribebyemail.com/anchor.fm/s/130995e4/podcast/rss • Send your thoughts, comments, inspirations to: brianspoetryoasis@gmail.com • Support Poet Brian's Creative and Podcast Production Time and Efforts: https://paypal.me/2PoetBrian?locale.x=en_US No amount is too small. Thanks!

Poetry, Podcast, Performance, Production © 2021 Brian Crouth / Photo credit: Megan te Boekhorst (Unsplash) / Song credit: “Fountain of Belief” by Hampus Naeselius • Oasis podcast email notifications: https://subscribebyemail.com/anchor.fm/s/130995e4/podcast/rss • Send your thoughts, comments, inspirations to: brianspoetryoasis@gmail.com • Support Poet Brian's Creative and Podcast Production Time and Efforts: https://paypal.me/2PoetBrian?locale.x=en_US No amount is too small. Thanks!

Poetry, Podcast, Performance, Production © 2021 Brian Crouth / Photo credit: Umesh Raj (Unsplash) / Song credit: “Sweet Despair” by Dream Cave, Anya Gold • Oasis podcast email notifications: https://subscribebyemail.com/anchor.fm/s/130995e4/podcast/rss • Send your thoughts, comments, inspirations to: brianspoetryoasis@gmail.com • Support Poet Brian's Creative and Podcast Production Time and Effort: https://paypal.me/2PoetBrian?locale.x=en_US No amount is too small. Thanks!

Poetry,Podcast,Performance,Production: ©2017, 2020, 2021 Brian Crouth All rights reserved Song credit:“OnThou” by Ever So Blue (Epidemic Sound) Photo credit: Edmilson Junior (Unsplash) Send an email to brianspoetryoasis@gmail.com and share your take on a “full moon wrapped in a riddle” and I’ll send you an audio of an never-before-heard Oasis Experience just for you. I look forward to journeying together and getting to know you. Until next time. Peace! “The crisp, cold, wintery air had already swept the clouds away to create a clear a grey canvas with wisps of mist left over for effect for a late January moon in all its fullness.”

Podcast description template Poetry,Podcast,Performance,Production: ©2018, 2020, 2021 Brian Crouth Photo credit: Kyle Head (Unsplash) Send an email to brianspoetryoasis@gmail.com and share where you go to find “a safe space” and I’ll send you an audio of an never-before-heard Oasis Experience just for you I look forward to journeying together and getting to know you. Until next time. Peace!---

Poetry, Podcast, Performance, and Production: ©1997, 2001, 2021 Brian Crouth All rights reserved Song credit:“There’s a New Day” Staffan Carlén Photo credit: Marcos Paulo Prado (Unsplash) Send an email to brianspoetryoasis@gmail.com and share what your 2021 New Year’s resolution is and I’ll send you an audio of an never-before-heard Oasis Experience just for you I look forward to journeying together and getting to know you. Until next time. Peace!

Poetry, Podcast, Performance, Production © 2018, 2020 Photo credit: Brian Crouth / Song credit: “The First Noel” (instrumental background) W.G. Snuffy Walden ©2002 BMG / “The First Noel”(Jazz version) The Evergreen Trio feat. Ellinor ©2016 Epidemic Sound /Oasis podcast email notifications: https://subscribebyemail.com/anchor.fm/s/130995e4/podcast/rss Send your thoughts, comments, inspirations to: brianspoetryoasis@gmail.com December sunlight pushed its way through an oak tree’s branches, trailing off before it could reach the picture window in a kitchen where they sat. It was one more day to Christmas, and the anniversary. (from “The Anniversary”)

Poetry, Podcast, Performance, Production © 2019, 2020 BrianCrouth / Photo credit: Getty Images / Song credit: “Svalbard” by Julyan Brynn / Oasis podcast email notifications: https://subscribebyemail.com/anchor.fm/s/130995e4/podcast/rss Send your thoughts, comments, inspirations to: brianspoetryoasis@gmail.com There were leaves of gold, damp and sidewalk strewn, for the wind and rain had stopped by then. It happened to be Halloween... (from “Why He Would Walk”)

Poetry, Podcast, Performance, Production © 2019, 2020 Photo credit: Gemma Evans / Background music: “I Remember Well”’by Cody Francis / Song credit: “Floating Hearts” by Julyan Brynn / Oasis podcast email notifications: https://subscribebyemail.com/anchor.fm/s/130995e4/podcast/rss Send your thoughts, comments, inspirations to: brianspoetryoasis@gmail.com “Wellspring of my Inspiration: where have you gone? I fumble in the dark: make yourself known! Lay with open eyes in bed at night; fear stricken when I rise. To face the day, unbearable: remain in bed, and close my eyes.”

Poetry, Podcast, Performance, Production ©2020 Photo credit: David Nieto Watch Ray Charles sing, “American the Beautiful” on the Dick Cavett Show Sept 18, 1972 https://youtu.be/TRUjr8EVgBg Oasis podcast email notifications: https://subscribebyemail.com/anchor.fm/s/130995e4/podcast/rss Send your thoughts, comments, inspirations to: brianspoetryoasis@gmail.com Our country’s election is not worthy, future President: fraught with vitriol and fear, demonizing’s back in fashion doubts about the vote we cast: “To be included, or contested?”

Poetry, Podcast, Performance, Production ©2020 Sign up for the Oasis podcast email notifications: https://subscribebyemail.com/anchor.fm/s/130995e4/podcast/rss Send your thoughts, comments, inspirations to: brianspoetryoasis@gmail.com I had something to get done today: something I’ve been avoiding, putting off for “another day” that inevitably will steal me away from all I might enjoy this precious gift, this very day...

Fine Snow © 2018, 2020 Brian Crouth / Photo credit: Sadie Staigar

Poetry,Podcast,Performance,Production ©2019,2020BrianCrouthAllrightsreservd New Oasis episode email notifications: https://subscribebyemail.com/anchor.fm/s/130995e4/podcast/rss Thoughts,Comments,Inspirations: brianspoetryoasis@gmail.com “O how I love sonnets! What’s not to love? Says it all in just 14 lines: fits like a glove!”

once upon a time the man I am who was back then played a certain song and took her hand... (from The Other Side of a Broken Heart) Listen to Tony Bennett sing “The Way You Look Tonight” https://youtu.be/Mx3SPsH9AMQThe Original piano background music for The Other Side by Megan Wofford with sound engineering by Cary Jacobs All Poetry&content © 2020 Brian Crouth Send your thoughts & comments: brianspoetryoasis@gmail.com Peace!

once upon a time the man I am who was back then played a certain song and took her hand... (from The Other Side of a Broken Heart) Listen to Tony Bennett sing “The Way You Look Tonight” https://youtu.be/Mx3SPsH9AMQThe Original piano background music for The Other Side by Megan Wofford with sound engineering by Cary Jacobs All Poetry&content © 2020 Brian Crouth Send your thoughts & comments: brianspoetryoasis@gmail.com Peace!

a Poem by Oscar Wilde leads Poet Brian to new and familiar places, and an Oasis from anxiety. Poems: Symphony in Yellow by Oscar Wilde; Ovid’s Covid, the right amount (“Do not Worry”) & if I were to give you a yellow bouquet ©2019, 2020 Brian Crouth/ Poet Brian loves to hear from you: share what the Oasis awakens in you w/ an Anchor message or email 2poetbrian@gmail.com

if I were to give you a bouquet of yellow: I’d gather the splendor of a daffodil’s petals the taste of squash blossoms fried,
goat cheese melting inside the perfume of green grass mixed with fresh dandelion I’d give you standing on tiptoes “the little daisy that could” - never giving up to be noticed and lost in the crowd daylillies that line country roadsides while they still stand at attention - long before they tucker out and close for the evening and the finishing touch before my bouquet is given? I’d bunch up and bind it with vine of Black-eyed Susan. © 2020 Brian Crouth Image credit: “Mains aux Fleurs” (Hands with Flowers) by Pablo Picasso

a Poem by Oscar Wilde leads Poet Brian to new and familiar places, and an Oasis from anxiety. Poems: Symphony in Yellow by Oscar Wilde; Ovid’s Covid & the right amount (“Do not Worry) ©2019, 2020 Brian Crouth/ Image: Chad Leonard “The Revival” (Watercolor) (FB/Instagram @i_am_the_chad) Share what the Oasis awakens in you w/ an Anchor message or email 2poetbrian@gmail.com Poet Brian loves to hear from you!

back in the day when work would take me far from home traveling where they needed me perfecting sprints through major hubs with briefcase, laptop, carry on an airplane gave me stillness, calm a time out from the pace of a career, expectations for a family life II there is nothing like the calm I find in flight, suspended in midair the soothing backdrop of flowing air that maintains cabin pressure the humming spin of high speed blades, the hush of engine turbines with the pause all things make sense: I rediscover clarity clear again on who I am, reimagine the kind of life I truly want were it still up to me III somewhere along the way I slide up the plastic blind to see the miracle that carries me above the clouds by graceful lift of aircraft wings much like a gull’s I realize then: the pause that gives me respite does not mean I stopped, or I’m not going anywhere the pause © 2020 Brian Crouth

Whether it’s waking up w/ the doldrums or a Creative dry spell, Poet Brian discovers there’s a gift by trusting the struggle and the waiting. Poems: Wellspring of my Inspiration; waiting on a friend; how about you? © 2020 Brian Crouth/ Photo: Chris Barbalis / Send your thoughts, reflections, ideas &requests w/ an Anchor message, or brianspoetryoasis@gmail.com because Poet Brian loves to hear from you!

In a time marked by so much death, destruction, and sadness, Poet Brian shares a Spring and Life Giving Poem. ©2018, 2020 Brian Crouth All rights reserved. Poet Brian loves to hear from you! brianspoetryoasis@gmail.com Image credit: Mount Auburn Cemetery (The History Bandits)

With Poems & Music of difficult times that were filled with Sadness, Poet Brian ponders: Can embracing Sorrow be a worthwhile path rather than avoiding the pain, or running away. All that he remembers ©2019,2020 Brian Crouth. Winterwood © 1991, 2019, 2020 Brian Crouth. Glad to be Sad © 2020 Brian Crouth / Send your thoughts, reflections, ideas &requests w/ an Anchor message, or brianspoetryoasis@gmail.com Poet Brian loves to hear from you! Enjoy songs by Danny O’Keefe, Ron Sexsmith & Gilbert O’Sullivan w/ the Anchor podcast app.

Reflecting on difficult times that were filled with Sadness, Poet Brian explores how embracing Sorrow - both past and present - can be a worthwhile path rather than avoiding the pain, or running away: All that he remembers ©2019,2020 Brian Crouth. Winterwood © 1991, 2019, 2020 Brian Crouth. Glad to be Sad © 2020 Brian Crouth / Send your thoughts, reflections, ideas &requests w/ an Anchor message, or brianspoetryoasis@gmail.com Poet Brian loves to hear from you!

“When Spring has sprung and sowing is in style, a farmer has a certain smile.”Poet Brian celebrates farmers and friendship, the beauty of the land they work, their toils and unique challenges, and the fruits of their labors: Winter’s shadows grow shorter in the Spring © 2019,2020 Brian Crouth. Morning Rites © 2019,2020 Brian Crouth. Once Again © 2019, 2020 Brian Crouth/ Send your thoughts, reflections, requests&ideas w/ an Anchor message, or to brianspoetryoasis@gmail.com / Poet Brian loves to hear from you! / Image: Sower with the Setting Sun by Vincent Van Gough. Enjoy songs by the Byrds, Joni Mitchell & John Denver w/ the Anchor podcast app.