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Nona Blyth Cloud has lived and worked in the Los Angeles area for over 50 years, spending much of that time commuting on the 405 Freeway. After Hollywood failed to appreciate her genius for acting and directing, she began a second career managing non-profits, from which she has retired. Nona has now resumed writing whatever comes into her head, instead of reports and pleas for funding. She lives in a small house overrun by books with her wonderful husband.

TCS: Will You, Won’t You, Will You, Won’t You Join the Dance?

Posted on January 22, 2024 by wordcloud9

   Good Morning! ______________________________ There are many things you can lie your way through; poetry is not one of them. — Nicole Lyons, author of HUSH ________________ Everything that needs to be said has already been said. But, since no … Continue reading →

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TCS: The Tenderness Has Run Out. Everything Falters.

Posted on January 15, 2024 by wordcloud9

   Good Morning! ______________________________ “Nobody has ever measured, even  poets, how much a heart can hold.” — Zelda Fitzgerald ________________ “Read poems to yourself in the middle of the night. Turn on a single lamp and read them while you’re … Continue reading →

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TCS: The Terror of the Truth of Things

Posted on January 8, 2024 by wordcloud9

   Good Morning! ______________________________ “It’s no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense.”— Mark Twain ________________ “Seldom, very seldom, does completetruth belong to any human disclosure;seldom can it happen that something isnot a little disguised … Continue reading →

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TCS: The Phœnix Liberty, Bright As the Sun and Unabashed

Posted on January 1, 2024 by wordcloud9

   Good Morning! ______________________________ “I drop the dying year behind me like a shawl and let it fall.” — Carol Ann Duffy ________________ New Year’s Resolution: To tolerate fools more gladly, provided this does not encourage them to take up … Continue reading →

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TCS: The Road of Change Is Before You Always

Posted on December 25, 2023 by wordcloud9

  Good Morning! ______________________________ “Winter is a season of recovery and preparation.” — Paul Theroux ________________ Another Kind of Christmas by Nona Blyth Cloud A bright parched sky over cold cracked earth Our north wind stole the last tear from air’s … Continue reading →

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TCS: The Joy That You Give to Others

Posted on December 18, 2023 by wordcloud9

Good Morning! ______________________________ “… astonish a mean world with your acts of kindness.” ― Maya Angelou ________________ What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness? – Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Swiss-born philosopher and political theorist

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TCS: The Songs That Tell Our Inmost Hopes

Posted on December 11, 2023 by wordcloud9

   Good Morning! ______________________________ “Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.” ― William Wordsworth ________________ “Poetry is boned with ideas, nerved and blooded with emotions, all held together by the delicate, tough skin of words.” ― Paul Engle, … Continue reading →

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TCS: It Has an Inner Light … and Changes Us

Posted on December 4, 2023 by wordcloud9

  Good Morning! ______________________________ “There is a crack in everything, that’s how the light gets in.” ― Leonard Cohen ________________ “It is the responsibility, yet the individual choice, of each of us to use the light we have to dispel … Continue reading →

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TCS: Are You a Visitor?

Posted on November 27, 2023 by wordcloud9

     Good Morning! ______________________________ You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough. ― William Blake ________________ “A poem once read is the first note of a symphony, a toe dipped in the water, … Continue reading →

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TCS: When the Wolves Come

Posted on November 20, 2023 by wordcloud9

     Good Morning! ______________________________ We must endure our thoughts all night, until the bright obvious stands motionless in the cold … – Wallace Stevens, Pulitzer Prize- winning poet ________________ If we but give it time, a work of art … Continue reading →

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