Monthly Archives: September 2023

TCS: How Many Times Do I Have to Say It

Posted on September 25, 2023 by wordcloud9

Good Morning! ______________________________ You don’t have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone. – John Ciardi _______________ Must I always sing at the gate to hearten the men who fight For causes changeful as wind … Continue reading →

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TCS: When You’re Looking for What’s Lost, Everything’s a Sign

Posted on September 18, 2023 by wordcloud9

 Good Morning! ______________________________ “It is difficult to get the news from poems yet men die miserably every day for lack of what is found there.” ― William Carlos Williams _______________ “Not even waste is inviolate. The day misspent, the love misplaced, … Continue reading →

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TCS: But We Shall Ride the Lightning

Posted on September 11, 2023 by wordcloud9

Good Morning! ______________________________ “This is the first, the wildest and the wisest thing I know: that the soul exists and is built entirely out of attentiveness.” ― Mary Oliver_______________ “Stand like a beaten anvil. Let earth’s wrongBeat on that iron and … Continue reading →

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TCS: When the World Turns Completely Upside Down

Posted on September 4, 2023 by wordcloud9

        Good Morning! ______________________________ “We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.” — Anaïs Nin “Said the Sun to the Moon–’When you are but a lonely white crone, And I, a dead King in … Continue reading →

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