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🗓️ 29 May 2024
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Today’s poem might be a perfect companion to a bedtime-reading of Where the Wild Things Are on a balmy summer evening.
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0:00.0 | Welcome back to the Daily Poem, a podcast from Goldberry Studios. |
0:04.3 | I'm Sean Johnson, and today is Wednesday, May 29th, 2024. |
0:10.5 | Today's poem is by Robert Lewis Stevenson. |
0:13.8 | It comes from his delightful book, A Child's Garden of Verses, |
0:18.3 | and it's called My Bed is a Boat. |
0:21.6 | I'll read it once, offer a few comments and then read it one more time. |
0:26.6 | My bed is a boat. |
0:31.6 | My bed is like a little boat. |
0:34.6 | Nurse helps me in when I embark. |
0:36.6 | She girds me in my sailor's coat and starts me in the |
0:40.2 | dark. The night I go on board and say, good night to all my friends on shore. I shut my eyes and |
0:47.4 | sail away and see and hear no more. And sometimes things to bed I take, as prudent sailors have to do. Perhaps a slice of wedding cake, |
0:57.6 | perhaps a toy or two. All night across the dark we steer, but when the day returns at last, |
1:04.8 | safe in my room beside the pier, I find my vessel fast. |
1:25.9 | This is a lovely, if simple little poem that captures all of the wonder of going to bed with the expectation of dreaming. |
1:29.6 | You slip off into the sea of sleep. |
1:35.6 | Rocked here and there. |
1:38.2 | And if you're lucky, you'll have a dream and go even farther. |
1:43.6 | I do like the touch about being able to take a slice of wedding cake to bed. |
1:52.0 | I wish this was something that was a little more common and customary in my own life. |
1:58.0 | It's probably for the best, though, that it doesn't happen too often. |
2:03.8 | The ending of the poem is lovely all night across the dark we steer, but when the day |
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