# lucky words (audio feeds) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 1 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover lucky words. Page: Feed: --- ## ["What lips my lips have kissed" by Edna St. Vincent Millay](https://luckywords.substack.com/p/what-lips-my-lips-have-kissed-by) _2026-03-06 · Jeffrey Windsor · Lucky Words_ Howdy! Another audio-first production, this time a sonnet by the fabulous 20th century poet Edna St. Vincent Millay. This one was recorded on a hike up Provo Canyon (yes, again—hey, it’s just up the street and, frankly, it’s a pretty great canyon) shortly before we finally (!) got some snow. What lips my lips have kissed, and where, and why, I have forgotten, and what arms have lain Under my head… [Listen](https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/188670107/eecfb4f36fa6520c6f2bcef4fee2d63f.mp3) ## [Advent, week 2: Peace](https://luckywords.substack.com/p/advent-week-2-peace) _2025-12-11 · Jeffrey Windsor · Lucky Words_ Yes, yes it’s very late (again!). I apologize. ON PEACE When Elisabeth finally (finally!) got pregnant, she had to deal with the discomforts of carrying a baby all the while her husband was struck mute. She said that her “reproach” was taken away, but it is hard to imagine that it was a very pleasant time. Meanwhile, her young unmarried cousin, Mary, was also pregnant. More unpleasantness. Mary… [Listen](https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/181341464/ca04a29bd7d9cee5876472c8e843d7e9.mp3) ## [Advent, week 1: Hope](https://luckywords.substack.com/p/advent-week-1-hope) _2025-12-03 · Jeffrey Windsor · Lucky Words_ So Advent started last Sunday. I had intended to get this out before then, but then things happened, and I didn’t get it out there. My apologies. About Advent Advent is the season leading up to Christmas, starting the fourth Sunday before. Christmas, the twelve days of it, begins on Christmas Day. Right now, we are in the middle of Advent. For many Christians, they celebrate every Sunday of Advent… [Listen](https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/180618086/c58f74dc1698774b7d15b92e8ed91d5a.mp3) ## [Edna St. Vincent Millay, a sonnet (Lucky Words Podcast 2025, episode 10)](https://luckywords.substack.com/p/edna-st-vincent-millay-a-sonnet-lucky) _2025-07-07 · Jeffrey Windsor · Lucky Words_ I recorded this while sitting on the shady bank of the Provo River, shoes off and feet in the water. It was over 90º outside, and my spot was one of the best places I can imagine along the entire Wasatch Front today. Text of poem This is the second sonnet in Edna St. Vincent Millay’s Renascence and Other Poems , published in 1917. Time does not bring relief; you all have lied Who told me time… [Listen](https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/167769593/998ac881acd75e0a3bf6ae1fc6668ac7.mp3) ## [Shakespeare’s sonnets 4-6 (Lucky Words podcast 2025, episode 9)](https://luckywords.substack.com/p/shakespeares-sonnets-4-6-lucky-words) _2025-06-19 · Jeffrey Windsor · Lucky Words_ Recorded on a lovely afternoon in early June 2025, up on Cascade mountain, a couple thousand feet above my house. In the recording, I promised a photo. Here it is: The recording might be a bit quiet, and I apologize about that. If it’s annoying to you, just send me a note so that I’ll be motivated to find a better solution next time. Text of poems Sonnet 4 Unthrifty loveliness, why dost thou spend… [Listen](https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/166355729/d06c3d6494db7f6e0d5bc4ed94c026c8.mp3) ## [“One Patch of Quilt” by Susan Marsh (Lucky Words Podcast 2025, episode 8)](https://luckywords.substack.com/p/one-patch-of-quilt-by-susan-marsh) _2025-06-02 · Jeffrey Windsor · Lucky Words_ Recorded on site and in one take on the banks of the Provo River, May 2025. Today’s poem is by Susan Marsh who is in her own words a “writer, poet, artist” based in Wyoming. That career description is one I aspire to, though, of course I’d choose Utah. The poem was published in 2022. Text of poem “One Patch of Quilt” by Susan Marsh We know about the way they treat the chickens But on a budget, buy… [Listen](https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/165046076/21f675caf8305a2b080297b3d5f44f4f.mp3) ## ["Why Did the Children Put Beans in Their Ears?" by Carl Sandburg (Lucky Words podcast 2025, episode 7)](https://luckywords.substack.com/p/why-did-the-children-put-beans-in) _2025-05-21 · Jeffrey Windsor · Lucky Words_ In the spirit of getting more prescriptive, this is the first of an intermittent and irregular series about how and why of poetry. Today: the portability of poetry, illustrated with a classic by Carl Sandburg, “Why Did the Children Put Beans in Their Ears?” ## Text of poem “Why Did the Children Put Beans in Their Ears?” by Carl Sandburg "Why did the children put beans in their ears when the one… [Listen](https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/164059445/f7ab7600b55f205b0c30fe141c2e57a5.mp3) ## [“Variations on the Word Love” by Margaret Atwood (Lucky Words podcast 2025, episode 6)](https://luckywords.substack.com/p/variations-on-the-word-love-by-margaret) _2025-05-15 · Jeffrey Windsor · Lucky Words_ Recorded live on the La Virkin Creek Trail in Kolob Canyon, Zion National Park, May 2025. You’ll hear the wind noise pretty prominently at times, and I’m sorry if it annoys you. Not sorry enough to do anything about it, because I personally find it kind of charming. There are a bunch of photos you can see if you visit the website (luckywords.net) that don’t show up in podcast notes. ## Text of… [Listen](https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/163655567/049523f7627f5c5efe31933dc6b0d9ec.mp3) ## [Shakespeare’s Sonnet 3 (Lucky Words podcast 2025, episode 5)](https://luckywords.substack.com/p/shakespeares-sonnet-3-lucky-words) _2025-05-06 · Jeffrey Windsor · Lucky Words_ Text of poem Look in thy glass and tell the face thou viewest, Now is the time that face should form another, Whose fresh repair if now thou not renewest, Thou dost beguile the world, unbless some mother. For where is she so fair whose uneared womb Disdains the tillage of thy husbandry? Or who is he so fond will be the tomb Of his self-love, to stop posterity? Thou art thy mother’s glass, and she… [Listen](https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/163010976/dba2cd37a82245afdc93e97c57339b4f.mp3) ## [Delmore Schwartz, “ Calmly We Walk through This April’s Day” (Lucky Words 2025, episode 4)](https://luckywords.substack.com/p/delmore-schwartz-calmly-we-walk-through) _2025-04-24 · Jeffrey Windsor · Lucky Words_ Recorded on site next to the river, up Provo Canyon in the second week of April 2025. As I was talking, the sun came from behind the mountain on the east and I went from slightly chilly to filled with glorious light. It was a good day. Text of Poem Here is is: “Calmly We Walk through This April’s Day” by Delmore Schwartz Calmly we walk through this April’s day, Metropolitan poetry here and there,… [Listen](https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/162052279/e94ead8b21c2fbd28db2071fbcee1be0.mp3) ## [Auto-trade Cross-Exchange Gaps (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/v1HYyH9wgoX0) _2025-04-24 · **Sponsored**_ Find cross-exchange spreads, backtest strategies, and execute automatically with risk controls. ## [Shakespeare’s sonnet 2 (Lucky Words 2025, episode 3)](https://luckywords.substack.com/p/shakespeares-sonnet-2-lucky-words) _2025-04-14 · Jeffrey Windsor · Lucky Words_ This was recorded two weeks ago, on a day that I woke up and it was dumping snow. I went up Rock Canyon, which was just gorgeous. Now, just twelve days later, it’s warm and delightful. Sorry about the sound quality, too. I was not planning to record, and this was just me and my phone. Text of poem William Shakespeare’s sonnet 2, “When forty winters shall besiege thy brow” When forty winters shall… [Listen](https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/161337826/66fe97de62e85a77eaee4c384cfff916.mp3) ## [“Spring” by Edna St. Vincent Millay (Lucky Words 2025, episode 2)](https://luckywords.substack.com/p/spring-by-edna-st-vincent-millay) _2025-04-08 · Jeffrey Windsor · Lucky Words_ Text of poem “Spring” by Edna St. Vincent Millay To what purpose, April, do you return again? Beauty is not enough. You can no longer quiet me with the redness Of little leaves opening stickily. I know what I know. The sun is hot on my neck as I observe The spikes of crocus. The smell of the earth is good. It is apparent that there is no death. But what does that signify? Not only under the ground… [Listen](https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/160875473/3fca6dedfa567e3f33574958eca6cd1a.mp3) ## [Lucky Words Podcast 2025: Episode 1 — Shakespeare’s sonnet 1](https://luckywords.substack.com/p/lucky-words-podcast-2025-episode) _2025-04-01 · Jeffrey Windsor · Lucky Words_ For the past few years, I’ve recorded a series of podcasts every April for National Poetry Month. It’s 2025, and I’m doing it again. Woohoo! The original goal was to do a new poem every day: 30 poems over the course of the month. That is always too much work: finding the poems, doing some research, recording (on site outdoors!), editing, and posting. A daily podcast, even just a little ten minute… [Listen](https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/160315102/3eecb8a6fb21d22cbd40e26b44e5059a.mp3)