Category Archives: Art

TCS: History Within Breathing Distance

Posted on June 24, 2019 by wordcloud9

. . 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 … Continue reading →

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Word Cloud: ONYX (Redux)

Posted on June 21, 2019 by wordcloud9

by NONA BLYTH CLOUD I sometimes wonder if what critics condemn in the writers they review are really the motes and beams which blind them in their own work. When reviewer Peter Craft “damns with faint praise” the first published … Continue reading →

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TCS: Life Likes a Little Mess – Poems for Tesselation Day

Posted on June 17, 2019 by wordcloud9

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HAPPY FATHER’S DAY

Posted on June 16, 2019 by wordcloud9

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Word Cloud: PILGRIM-SOUL (Redux)

Posted on June 14, 2019 by wordcloud9

by NONA BLYTH CLOUD Next Sunday is Bloomsday, the day in 1904 that the events in the James Joyce novel Ulysses take place. I confess I have only read pieces of it, because it’s so densely written, and some of it I … Continue reading →

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Maybe There ARE Poems About Everything

Posted on June 11, 2019 by wordcloud9

The 11th of June is Corn-on-the-Cob Day Alexandre Nodopaka (1940 – ) was born in Ukraine. He is an author and artist who studied at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Casablanca, Morocco. Nodopaka now lives and works in the … Continue reading →

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TCS: A Cow Kind of World

Posted on June 10, 2019 by wordcloud9

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Word Cloud: MIDLIFE (Redux)

Posted on June 7, 2019 by wordcloud9

by NONA BLYTH CLOUD I guess it’s human nature to try to make things fit, whether it’s putting on roof tiles, or papers we need to file, or sorting the animal kingdom into family, genus and species – most of … Continue reading →

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TCS: Poems for National Repeat Day

Posted on June 3, 2019 by wordcloud9

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Word Cloud: MAYDEEP (Redux)

Posted on May 31, 2019 by wordcloud9

by NONA BLYTH CLOUD “Now is the month of maying” says the old song by Thomas Morley. Our month of maying is drawing to a close, but we have explored far more than spring romance. Many of these end-of-May poets have taken … Continue reading →

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