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Monthly Archives: October 2021
A Rhyme for Halloween
October 31, to the delight of children, has become a candy scavenge in the U.S. Our celebrations of the eerie and macabre are pretty bland compared to the holiday’s origins, but as long as people gather in the dark to scare … Continue reading
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Tagged A Rhyme for Halloween, Halloween, Jack-o-Lanterns, Maurice Kilwein Guevara, October 31
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TCS: Birthplace of Phantoms – a Prelude to Halloween
Good Morning! ______________________________ Welcome to The Coffee Shop, just for you early riserson Monday mornings. This is an Open Thread forum,so if you have an off-topic opinion burning a hole inyour brainpan, feel free to add a comment.______________________________ Believe nothing you hear, … Continue reading
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Tagged Edgar Allan Poe, Felicia Hemans and Sylvia Plath, Halloween, John Berryman and Thomas Babbington Macaulay, John Keats and Annie Finch, Samhain, TCS: Birthplace of Phantoms – a Prelude to Halloween
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TCS: Everything Remains Unchanged, but Nothing Stays the Same
. . Good Morning! ______________________________ Welcome to The Coffee Shop, just for you early risers on Monday mornings. This is an Open Thread forum, so if you have an off-topic opinion burning a hole in your brainpan, feel free to add a comment. … Continue reading
Washington D.C. Jihadists: There Be Lions
by IRENE FOWLER, Contributor “Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You shut the door of the kingdom of heaven in people’s faces. You yourselves do not enter, nor will you let those enter who are … Continue reading
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Tagged Congressman Madison Cathrorn, False Prophets, Old Testament, There Be Lions, trumpism, Washington DC Jihadists, White Christian Evangelicals
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TCS: It Fits Your Palm Just So – 200 Years in 16 Poems and 5 Quotes
Good Morning! ______________________________ Welcome to The Coffee Shop, just for you early risers on Monday mornings. This is an Open Thread forum, so if you have an off-topic opinion burning a hole in your brainpan, feel free to add a comment. ______________________________ Poetry … Continue reading
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Tagged e e cummings and plato, François Mauriac and Arna Wendell Bontemps, Maria James and Adela Zamudio, Masaoka Shiki and Katha Pollitt, TCS: It Fits Your Palm Just So – 200 Years in 16 Poems and 5 Quotes
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A Prince of Darkness and Election Fraudits
by IRENE FOWLER, Contributor Democracy is like the sun; it reaches and touches every individual. – Irene Fowler __________________________ Good morning everyone and welcome. Whatever your preferred flavour of life is – sweet, savoury, spicy or somethin’ else, welcome … Continue reading