Last week we tried an experiment, that we’ll continue: every week someone will choose a public domain poem (not too long) and post it on the forum under Readers Wanted/Weekly Poetry, and everyone is encouraged to record a version of it.

This past week we chose:
Voice of the Ancient Bard, by William Blake

Youth of delight, come hither,
And see the opening morn,
Image of truth new born.
Doubt is fled, & clouds of reason,
Dark disputes & artful teazing.
Folly is an endless maze,
Tangled roots perplex her ways.
How many have fallen there!
They stumble all night over bones of the dead,
And feel they know not what but care,
And wish to lead others, when they should be led.

And here is the randomly-chosen weekly poetry podcast, from among the six readers:
mtl3p reads: Voice of the Ancient Bard.

For the other five versions, see: here. (Note: I’ll try to clean this all up this week). And for some explanation of the poem, see: here.

Kara will be choosing and posting the new poem for this week, check the forum.