Wacky Poem Life

02/01/2025

01/31/2025

If wordplay is your game. we got you covered.

Episode 142: Old Mother Hunt Had a Rough Cut Punt is all about tongue twisters, alliteration, and the ways that the sounds of words allow us to engage, to laugh, and to determine who we are in the …

01/31/2025

These 2 kids look unhinged. It's Bill and Shaun as youngsters working on their tongue twisters. Do you sell seashells by the seashore? Episode 142 will be out today, and it will be about tongue twisters, alliteration, and the poetry of populating pronouncements with similar sounds.

01/16/2025

Episode 141: Poetry From Your Face Out Loud! This episode details the recent Poetry Out Loud recitation competition at ROMP, the high school contestants and the poems, the reasons for reciting, and more. Some cryptid stuff, too, of course!

https://wackypoemlife.com/2025/01/16/episode-141-poetry-from-your-face-out-loud/

01/03/2025

Episode 140: The Way is about “Do,” the belief in “the way of,” the path,” the “road” or “passage” that one takes in order to live a full life, to learn, to be skilled and enthusiastic in a discipline. We try to be good at it, and we fail, and we just keep working at it. Lots of stuff about poetry and art and New Year’s visions, too. Enjoy.

https://wackypoemlife.com/2025/01/03/episode-140-the-way/

01/03/2025

Today, Jan. 3, on the podcast, we will be talking about these haiku that Master Paul wrote for us. It was attached to a bottle of champagne! We may have to sample it.

12/25/2024

Not everyone has exciting plans for Christmas day. Feel free to make yours exciting by catching up on some past episodes of WPL. We'll be back with our first in 2025 on January 3. Check out the last episode where Bill talks about painting the awesome museum mural! Latest addition . . . Mothman in a very unique interpretation!

https://wackypoemlife.com/2024/12/20/episode-139-white-leg-in-the-water/

12/20/2024

Newest episode is out! White Leg in the Water . . . mermaids: sink or swim . . . ekphrastic poetry . . . murals . . . stuff like that. LISTEN anywhere you get podcasts or at link below:

https://wackypoemlife.com/2024/12/20/episode-139-white-leg-in-the-water/

12/17/2024

Coming up on Episode 139 on Friday, we're talking about co-host Bill and his mural in progress at the museum. Discussion will involve how art influences poetry and vice versa. Other wackiness will ensue, as usual. Listen to any of our 138 episodes while you wait. Just search for WPL anywhere you listen to podcasts or go to WackyPoemLife.com.

12/07/2024

As always, we are practical, poetic, and profound. Why aren't more people following this podcast? Do we need more p-words? Here for your listening pleasure is episode 138: Roundhouse Kick in the Face by Time.
Love, Shaun and Bill

https://wackypoemlife.com/2024/12/07/episode-138-roundhouse-kick-in-the-face-by-time/

12/07/2024

Next episode coming up today . . . it's about TIME. Yes, it is about time we put another one out and yes, it's about time. The episode . . . it's about time, not that it's time we did another. The subject is time. . . .

11/23/2024

Episode 137: Poems in an Encyclopedia covers, well folks, it covers a heck of a lot in its 30-minutish time frame. We kid you not. There is a wealth of nonsense and learning in this thing: word origins, science, the purpose of poetry, black holes, Chuck Norris, teachers with apple blossoms, shy folks, magic. I mean, it’s a cavalcade of chaos and beauty. Just listen. Thank you, to the late Kevin Vaughn for the poetry.

https://wackypoemlife.com/2024/11/23/episode-137-poems-in-an-encyclopedia/

11/23/2024

We'll have a new episode out today, Nov. 23. We'll talk about how poems come to be and why . . . and we'll stay unpretentious, like this wonderful cartoon.

11/14/2024

We're unable to do a podcast episode this week, but we will be back next week with something new and funny and wacky and . . . insightful! In the meantime, please listen to any of our 136 episodes that you might have missed. Also, feel free to comment with any topics or subjects related in some way to poetry that you would like us to do an episode on in the future. THANKS! Stay wacky!

11/08/2024

There's a lot going on with just those two words: "Just Because." Listen and find out!

https://wackypoemlife.com/2024/11/01/episode-136-just-because/

11/01/2024

How much of your life happens . . . just because?

Episode 136: Just Because! was inspired by a donation and a unique poem that went with it–both mailed to the Rural Oklahoma Museum of Poetry. What mundane words: “Just Because.” H…

10/18/2024

Have you experience a FRAY BOGGARD? Perhaps, your connection is loose. Perhaps, you simply need the enlightenment of this most recent podcast episode. We wish you well this spooky season.

https://wackypoemlife.com/2024/10/18/episode-135-fray-boggards/

10/08/2024

This was yet another fun episode. Are we biased? Yes, but it can still be true. Link in the comments.