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Swimming with Sharks
by IRENE FOWLER, Contributor “There is no fire like passion, there is no shark like hatred, there is no snare like folly, there is no torrent like greed.” – Siddharta Gautama To read Irene’s new poem “Swimming with Sharks” click:
TCS: If Humanity Seems to Have Left You Behind
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. ____________________________ “During … Continue reading
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Tagged Hilaire Belloc, If Humanity Seems to Have Left You Behind, John Ashbery, Maya Angelou, Stanley Kunitz, TCS, Week of July 25-30
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The Sound of Life
by IRENE FOWLER, Contributor “Listen to many, speak to a few.” – William Shakespeare (Hamlet – Act I, scene 3) “Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.” – James … Continue reading
TCS: Silence Will Contain All the Sounds
Good Morning! July 18th is World Listening Day ____________________________ 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 … Continue reading
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Tagged Acoustic Ecology, Aldo Leopold, R. Murray Schafer, Silence Will Contain All the Sounds, Soundscape, TCS, World Listening Day, World Soundscape Project
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A Poem for Celebration of the Horse Day – by the Newest U.S. Poet Laureate!
I am reposting this poem to celebrate not only horses, but the great news about the appointment of our newest U.S. Poet Laureate. Horses and humans have had a relationship for at least 5,000 years – it hasn’t always been … Continue reading
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Tagged Ada Limón, American Pharoah, Celebration of the Horse Day, US Poet Laureate
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Summer Reflections
by IRENE FOWLER, Contributor “When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on.”– Franklin D. Roosevelt “The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seenor even touched – they must … Continue reading
TCS: Life Counts the Rules
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 is the beginning … Continue reading
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Tagged Beah Richards, Dimitris P. Kraniotis, Giorgio de Chirico, Lyn Lifshin, Pablo Neruda, TCS: Life Counts the Rules, Woody Guthrie
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A Poem for World Chocolate Day
World Chocolate Day: July 7, 1550 is the ‘traditional’ date given for chocolate’s arrival in Europe from the “New World” – in the form of a bitter drink from Mexico – but there is evidence that cacao beans were … Continue reading
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Tagged Cacao Beans, Chocolate, Rita Dove, US Poet Laureate, World Chocolate Day
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A Poem for International Kissing Day
Nizar Qabbani (1923-1998) Syrian poet, diplomat, and women’s rights activist, serving in Syrian missions in Beirut, Cairo, Istanbul, Madrid, and London, and as UAR Vice-Secretary at their Chinese embassy. His sister’s suicide under pressure when she refused to marry a man … Continue reading
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Tagged International Kissing Day, Nizar Qabbani
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