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TCS: The Door to the Future – A Week of Poets
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. ____________________________ “The … Continue reading
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Tagged English language, TCS, The Door to the Future - A Week of Poets
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Why Doesn’t the Sun Bleed
by IRENE FOWLER, Contributor Even the Sun directs our gaze away from itself and to the life illumined by it. ─ Eberhard Arnold The Sun himself is weak when he first rises and gathers strength and courage as the day … Continue reading
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Tagged Charles Dickens, Eberhard Arnold, Irene Fowler, Wallace Stevens, Why Doesn’t the Sun Bleed
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A Poem for the Birthday of Lars Gustafsson
Lars Gustafsson(1936 –2016) was born in Västerås, Sweden on May 17. A Swedish poet, novelist, and scholar, he published his first novel in 1959, and his first poetry collection the following year. Some of his poetry collections have been published … Continue reading
TCS: Adrienne Rich and the Meaning of We
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.____________________________ It was an old … Continue reading
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Tagged Adrienne Rich, Adrienne Rich and the Meaning of We, Feminism, Second Wave, TCS
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After the Rain
by IRENE FOWLER, Contributor Life isn’t about waiting for the storm to pass. It’s about learning to dance in the rain.” – Vivian Greene “I have always considered the rain to be healing – a blanket – the comfort of … Continue reading
TCS: Even Gardens, It Seems, Can Set Off Explosions
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. ____________________________ In … Continue reading
Swans On Gentle Waterways
by IRENE FOWLER, Contributor “A swan looking at the world from a misty calm lake is like a creature looking at the world from space! All he sees is a large herd of people governed by the most stupid and … Continue reading
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Tagged Irene Fowler, Mehmet Murat Ildan, Swans, Swans on Gentle Waterways
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TCS: Guerrilla Gardening – Making Sense in a Senseless World
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
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Tagged Gardening, Guerrilla Gardening – Making Sense in a Senseless World, Sunflower Guerrilla Gardening, TCS, The Brussels Farmers, Urban Blight
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A Poem for International Dance Day
April 29, 1982 – International Dance Day was launched by the Dance Committee of the International Theatre Institute (ITI). Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) American’s best-known woman poet and one of the nation’s greatest and most original authors, lived the life of a … Continue reading
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TCS: U.S. Poets Laureate of the 21st Century, Part THREE – ‘A Spark of Kindness’
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. ____________________________ How … Continue reading