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Monthly Archives: February 2023
TCS: “This Unimportant Morning Something Goes Singing”
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. _____________________________ I do not believe in … Continue reading
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Tagged February and March Poets, This Unimportant Morning Something Goes Singing
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Waiting to Wait
by IRENE FOWLER, Contributor “Of all the hardships a person had to face, none was more punishing than the simple act of waiting.” – Khaled Hosseni – A Thousand Splendid Suns “Waiting is a sustained effort to stay focused on … Continue reading
TCS: Through All My Tears I Still Shall Laugh
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. _____________________________ “Survival is … Continue reading
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TCS: ‘The Poem You Made of Me’ – Valentine’s Week
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A Great Star Will Fall – Else Lasker-Schüler
Else Lasker-Schüler, born Elisabeth Schüler on February 11, 1869 in Elberfeld, Germany, was a German Jewish poet, short-story writer, playwright, and novelist affiliated with the avant-garde and German Expressionism. She was the author of several works, including Styx, Die Wupper and Mein blaues … Continue reading
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Tagged A great star will fall, Else Lasker-Schüler, Reconciliation
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The Martin Butterfly
by IRENE FOWLER, Contributor The Monarch butterfly considered to be the king of butterflies and the most beautiful of all butterflies in the world,” Panescu says. “They represent strength, endurance, spirituality, trust, sustaining what they believe, transformation, and evolution.” – Google … Continue reading
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Tagged Butterflies, Irene Fowler, Martin Luther King Jr, Martin Niemoller, The Martin Buttlerfly
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His Ninth Life – In Memoriam
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Tagged Cat, His Ninth Life – In Memoriam, May Sarton, Storytelling, TCS, Wilderness Lost
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Even Before Flowers, There Were Butterflies
February 5th was established in 2004 as California Western Monarch Day by the California state legislature, to celebrate these beautiful butterflies and their annual migration to spend winters on the central coast of California, and to highlight the rapid rate … Continue reading
A Poem for Homemade Soup Day
Daniel Nyikos was born in Germany into a U.S. military family. His mother is Hungarian and his father is an American of Hungarian descent. The family moved a lot during his early school years, mostly in America and the Netherlands. His … Continue reading
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