This week, I chose to honor Poetry Month and the concept of my show with a Poet Playlist. While I would argue that a great many lyricists, rappers, and singer-songwriters are poets, I made my criteria for this that the songs would be poems from famous poets that were later put to music. I hope that this was enjoyable to the listeners as it was for me to compile! I also made a note for myself of which poet each song was by. I will add a photo of that as a reference ahead of the playlist. Lastly, I read the poem I composed a choral work for, “The Seeker” by Lucy Maud Montgomery, at the end of my show. I will include that below also.
The Seeker
by Lucy Maud Montgomery
I sought for my happiness over the world,
Oh, eager and far was my quest;
I sought it on mountain and desert and sea,
I asked it of east and of west.
I sought it in beautiful cities of men,
On shores that were sunny and blue,
And laughter and lyric and pleasure were mine
In palaces wondrous to view;
Oh, the world gave me much to my plea and my prayer
But never I found aught of happiness there!
Then I took my way back to a valley of old
And a little brown house by a rill,
Where the winds piped all day in the sentinel firs
That guarded the crest of the hill;
I went by the path that my childhood had known
Through the bracken and up by the glen,
And I paused at the gate of the garden to drink
The scent of sweet-briar again;
The homelight shone out through the dusk as of yore
And happiness waited for me at the door!
