The Gift of Love Poetry Program celebrates the first edition
with two thousand CDs going out into the world. If you would
like to submit a poem for future edition consideration, please
send a copy to Michele.

Gift of Love Poetry CD

Music by Judith Tripp • Windscape Music
Paul Bacon • KABA Recording Studios

Track 1 
Planet Earth
Poet • Michele Rivers
Reader • Michele Rivers

Track 2 
Courage
Poet • Tom Bowlin
Reader • Tom Bowlin

Track 3 
This Being Human
Poet • Rumi • Translation by Coleman Barks
Reader • Dave Anderson             

Track 4 
Lake and Maple
Poet • Jane Hirshfield
Reader • Tom Bowlin

Track 5 
For The Drifters
Poet • Pratho Sereno
Reader • Dave Anderson

Track 6 
Lo I Am With You Always
Poet • Rumi • Translation by Coleman Barks
Reader • Michele Rivers
                   
Track 7 
Balance
Poet • Tom Bowlin
Reader • Judith Tripp

Track 8 
Doesn’t Matter
Poet • Tom Bowlin
Reader • Dave Anderson

Track 9 
Lately
Poet • Kathy Evans
Reader • Michele Rivers

Track 10   
Da Capo
Poet • Jane Hirshfield
Reader • Dave Anderson

Track 11   
Enlightenment
Poet • Tom Bowlin
Reader • Tom Bowlin

Track 12  
Sparks
Poet • TC Culberson
Reader • Michele Rivers

Track 13  
Forgiveness
Poet • Tom Bowlin
Reader • Dave Anderson

Track 14   
Nobody Makes It Up That Mountain
Poet • Pratho Sereno
Reader • Judith Tripp

Track 15  
Out Beyond 
Poet • Rumi • Translation by Coleman Barks
Reader • Tom Bowlin
       
Track 16   
How I Met Her In Spring
Poet • Judith Tripp
Reader • Michele Rivers

Track 17   
Essence
Poet • Tom Bowlin 
Reader • Dave Anderson

Track 18   
Song
Poet • Pratho Sereno
Reader • Michele Rivers

Track 19   
In Your Light
Poet • Rumi • Translation by Coleman Barks
Reader • Tom Bowlin

Track 20   
Be Free
Poet • Tom Bowlin
Reader • Judith Tripp

Track 21   
Gamble Everything
Poet • Rumi • Translation by Coleman Barks
Reader • Dave Anderson

Track 22     
This Is Just To Say
Poet • Gail Rudd Entrekin
Reader • Tom Bowlin

Track 23   
The Way Of Love
Poet • Rumi • Translation by Coleman Barks
Reader • Michele Rivers

Track 24
For What Binds Us
Poet • Jane Hirshfield
Reader • Judith Tripp

Track 25   
Tree
Poet • Jane Hirshfield
Reader • Tom Bowlin
      
Track 26  
I Do Not Understand This New World
Where Everything I Want Is OK
Poet • TC Culberson
Reader • Judith Tripp
   
Track 27   
Belongs To
Poet • Tom Bowlin
Reader • Dave Anderson

Track 28   
Never Having Ever Been Prom Queen
Poet • Gail Rudd Entrekin
Reader • Michele Rivers

Track 29  
Hangin’ In
Poet • Tom Bowlin
Reader • Dave Anderson

Track 30   
In A Room With Five People, Six Griefs
Poet • Jane Hirshfield
Reader • Tom Bowlin

Track 31   
Wear Hope
Poet • Terri Glass
Reader • Judith Tripp

Track 32  
Starting Over
Poet • Michele Rivers
Reader • Michele Rivers

Track 33   
Survival
Poet • Tom Bowlin
Reader • Judith Tripp

Track 34   
Rorshach’s Test
Poet • Gail Rudd Entrekin
Reader • Dave Anderson

Track 35     
The Words
Poet • Tom Bowlin
Reader • Tom Bowlin

Track 36    
Ladders
Poet • Kathy Evans
Reader • Judith Tripp

Track 37     
The Crystalline Lattice
Poet • Terri Glass
Reader • Dave Anderson

Track 38     
Asleep
Poet • Tom Bowlin
Reader • Tom Bowlin

Track 39   
Geese
Poet • Michele Rivers
Reader • Michele Rivers

Track 40   
A Room
Poet • Jane Hirshfield
Reader • Dave Anderson

Track 41   
Time For Grief
Poet • Michele Rivers
Reader • Michele Rivers

Track 42   
Transmutation
Poet • Linda Watanabe McFerrin
Reader • Judith Tripp

Track 43   
Where Everything Is Music
Poet • Rumi • Translation by Coleman Barks
Reader • Dave Anderson
 
Track 44   
Stuck
Poet • Tom Bowlin
Reader • Tom Bowlin

Track 45   
Rest Now
Poet • Judith Tripp
Reader • Judith Tripp

Track 46   
Morning Poem
Poet • Michele Rivers
Reader • Michele Rivers

                               

Be Free

It doesn't

Matter

How it

Turns out

Surrender

Now

To the rest

Of your life

Fall into it

And be free

– Tom Bowlin

Why the flower image?
When I saw Laura Alders' photographs of flowers, I was immediately drawn to the luscious pink ranunculus. For me, the blossom is symbolic of an inward journey. I think the poetry on the CD reflects the paradox of the complexity and the fragility of human experience.

Would you like a CD?
CDs are complementary to anyone with cancer, to cancer health care professional and to their organizations. Please email requests for poetry CDs to giftoflovepoetry@gmail.com along with the recipient’s name and mailing address.

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Do you know organizations that might want CDs or an individual who would like a copy? We can ship CDs to anyone in the world who has cancer.