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Sheila Moschen asked me to read 3 of my love poems for a Valentine Day’s Show on her KHOE radio program, Let Your Heart Sing. This 38-minute show (#56) aired on Monday and Tuesday this week at 1:00 and 7:00 pm, and will soon go into her archive. The last musical selection Sheila played was the beautiful love song, Longer, by Dan Fogelberg (at 33:05). The 3 short poems, about a special relationship I shared with my sweetheart Sally Peden, complete the show (at 36:34).

UPDATE: The show also replayed the following year on Valentine’s Day, Wednesday, February 12, 2020 with new links on OneDrive and YouTube.

CELEBRATING VALENTINE’S DAY WITH MUSIC AND POETRY

COMMITTED
a two-haiku poem

When the tide rolls in
bows of boats bump each other
tethered to the dock

With our ups and downs
we remain tied together
solid as a rock

~

This Quiet Love

This is a quiet love
One of simplicity and easiness
No complications here
It’s too late in life for that sort of thing
Just time to be best friends

~

In Our Loving Eyes

Some people are stargazers
We were soul-gazers
Looking in each other’s eyes

Windows to the Soul
A Self-reflecting mirror
Drawing us nearer

Love … looking … at Love

World Radio KHOE 90.5 FM is broadcast from the campus of Maharishi International University in Fairfield, Iowa, and streamed live online.

Sheila had invited me to read more of my poems on other shows. She asked me to read another love poem, The Enlightened Heart, which concluded show #72. She liked my tree poems and asked me to read a haiku, Be Spring, poem IX in 13 Ways to Write Haiku: A Poet’s Dozen, followed by Willow Tree, a tanka from a tree’s perspective, on show #61. She asked me to read What do trees do? Something to think about, for show #70. And Friendship – another tree tanka for show #76. And I read Being in Nature: A Gift from a Tree for show #93. 

Some of my favorite love poems: i carry your heart with me by e.e. cummings | Emily Dickinson succinctly describes the eternal nature of Love in this short but powerful poem | Love after Love, by Derek Walcott, resonates deeply when you first acknowledge yourself.

Added February 18, 2024: This Sunday, Sheila Moschen’s Valentine’s Day show was being rebroadcast on KHOE. After she had signed off, station manager James Moore came on air to share the sad news of Sheila’s passing. Her daughter had contacted him to say that her mother had passed on January 15. James spoke about her considerable contribution to the radio station. Sheila provided a platform for the many fine local musicians and poets. On February 15, The Recorder posted the Sheila Moschen Obituary.

I was shocked to hear this news. I emailed James to relay my surprise and to thank him for his high praise of Sheila. He thanked me and said:

Sheila was a joy to work with and a real treasure for Heaven on Earth radio. That’s why I’ve chosen to continue broadcasting her rich content.

She told me recently that creating the LET YOUR HEART SING shows was one of her very favorite things in life, a highlight, in fact. Her commitment to uplifting hearts and minds, enriching life, and focus on local creatives with timely seasonal offerings was always a joy to broadcast.

She will be missed but grateful to be able to keep her beautiful work in rotation.

All the best,

James

He later sent me an mp3 of what he said on the show.

Tags: Dan Fogelberg, Derek Walcott, e.e. cummings, Emily Dickinson, Ken Chawkin, KHOE, Let Your Heart Sing, love poems, love songs, Sally Peden, Sheila Moschen, valentine's day

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