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TCS: Clearing the Clouded Brain – Seven Poets
. . . .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. ______________________________ Ten thousand … Continue reading
In Honor of World Lizard Day
August 14th is World Lizard Day, so I am reposting this report on the Gila Monster: GILA MONSTER: His Myth is Worse than His Bite “I have never been called to attend a case of Gila monster bite, and I … Continue reading
TCS: A Call for Change from Nigeria
. 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
Posted in Poetry, The Coffee Shop
Tagged A Call for Change from Nigeria, Climate Crisis, Irene Fowler, Mother Earth, Russell Means, TCS, The Rose Garden
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A Poem by Alfred, Lord Tennyson on the Anniversary of His Birth
Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892) born on August 6, 1809, remains one of Britain’s most popular poets; he served as the Poet Laureate from 1850 until his death in 1892, the longest tenure of any English Poet Laureate. In 1883, he was … Continue reading
TCS: The Dame Days of Summer – Four Women Poets
. 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 August. … Continue reading
A Poem for the International Day of Friendship
In 2011, the International Day of Friendship was declared by the UN General Assembly, to be celebrated on July 30, as part of its Programme of Action on a Culture of Peace: “Recognizing the relevance and importance of friendship as … Continue reading
Why We Oppose Votes for Men – a Poem from 1915
Alice Duer Miller (1874-1942) was born on July 28, 1874, in Staten Island, New York. She was an American poet, novelist, screenwriter, satirist, and feminist. The New York Tribune published a series of her wonderful satirical poems lambasting the objections … Continue reading
TCS: Roars and Silences – A Five-Poet Week
. 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
Summer – Blowing Night Through an Alto Sax
Saundra Rose Maley, American educator, poet, and writer. She teaches at Montgomery College in Maryland. Maley is the author of Solitary Apprenticeship: James Wright and German Poetry; co-editor with Anne Wright of A Wild Perfection: The Selected Letters of James Wright: co-author of The … Continue reading
Posted in Jazz, Poetry
Tagged First Blues, July, Saundra Rose Maley, Summer – Blowing Night Through an Alto Sax
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He Tells Her that the Earth is Flat
There are a growing number of people who give the same weight to opinions as they do to facts. And some of them can’t even see any difference between them. It’s disturbing, and dangerous, but also absurd, as Wendy Cope … Continue reading
Posted in Humor, Poetry
Tagged Differences of Opinion, Fact vs Opinions, He Tells Her that the Earth is Flat, Wendy Cope
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