The Ashlee Craft Show
“Glow of Hope” – The Ashlee Craft Show – Episode 053 – Poetry
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“Electric Rainbow Road” – The Ashlee Craft Show – Episode 052 – Film
“A Lie Cannot Live in the Starless Midnight” – The Ashlee Craft Show – Episode 051 – Poetry
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UNNAMED POEM NUMBER 1 – The Ashlee Craft Show – Episode 050 – Poetry
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UNNAMED POEM 1
I sat, crying in bed
she sat in the garden in the front yard
eighteen years ago
I look at where I am now
versus all her potential,
all her hopes,
& I am disappointed
I have not made her proud,
I have not made myself proud
– she doesn’t deserve this
she is young, innocent,
no one has told her yet how things will feel
when she grows up & how desperately she will want to
get away; she pictures it being fun
like a better version of being a child
but she doesn’t know how sad & desperate it will be sometimes
I am so dark, & I am so light
& I hope one day it will feel better but even if
the moments still pull their punches
I have made it this far; I can make it through
I whisper the words back into the past;
she is playing in the yard still in Wisconsin
the words from the future are whispered to her in the wind:
“I deserve better than this”
& in the circular melisma of time
I cannot say whether hearing this is what gave her the knowledge then
that she should be worth more,
or if she nodded
having known this already all along
Dances – The Ashlee Craft Show – Episode 049 – Poetry
A THOUSAND CRANES, VOLUME 5: https://amzn.to/2L0T1D3
“Majesty & Mystery on a Boardwalk in the Summer” – The Ashlee Craft Show – Episode 048 – Poetry
“Go With the Creative Whims Wherever They May Flow” – The Ashlee Craft Show – Episode 047 – Poetry
“A Call to Victory” – The Ashlee Craft Show – Episode 046 – Poetry
I read a poem titled “A Call to Victory” (a poem about personal strength & taking back your strength) from A Thousand Cranes, Volume 10 in Episode 046 of The Ashlee Craft Show!