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Category Archives: Art
TCS: In Memoriam
. . 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 Arlington National Cemetery, Bertrand Russell, Decoration Day, General John A. Logan, James A. Garfield, Memorial Day, Rupert Brooke
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Word Cloud: MAYTIME (Redux)
by NONA BLYTH CLOUD Welcome to the third installment of the darling bards of May (with apologies to Shakespeare). As you might expect, most of the poets are English and American, but we do have one of the most famous Italian poets, … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry, Word Cloud
Tagged Adrienne Rich, Alexander Pope and Robert Creeley, Dante Alighieri, Jane Kenyon and Sheila Wingfield, Lars Gustafsson, Mary Biddinger, Maytime, Thomas Hood
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TCS: The Bee-Loud Glade – poems for World Bee Day
. . 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
Posted in Poetry, The Coffee Shop
Tagged Carol Ann Duffy, Emily Dickinson, Mary Oliver, Naomi Shihab Nye, Rumi, TCS, William Butler Yeats, William Shakespeare
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Word Cloud: MAYBLOOMS (Redux)
by NONA BLYTH CLOUD This is the second in our series of May poets — and it’s almost ‘Too Many Poets” — seventeen poets. There are probably even more, but these have either published in English, or had their poems translated into … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry, Word Cloud
Tagged Charles Simic Joy Harjo and Jane Cortez, Darwin T. Turner and Angela O. Carter, Edward Kamau Brathwaite and Rose Ausländer, Edward Lear Dante Gabriel Rossetti and Rosellen Brown, Fenton Johnson and Archibald MacLeish, Gary Snyder Lucian Blaga and Mona Van Duyn, Robert Browning and Rabindranath Tagore
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TCS: A Garden Smelling Like Honey and Peace
. . 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 … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry, The Coffee Shop
Tagged A Garden Smelling Like Honey and Peace, Gardens, Katherine Riegel, Marcus Tullius Cicero, National Public Gardens Week, Peonies, TCS, What I Would Like to Grow in My Garden
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For Mother’s Day
May Sarton (born Eleanore Marie Sarton), was an only child. Her parents fled with their two-year-old daughter from their Belgian homeland when the Germans invaded in 1914, first to Britain, and then on to America. Her father, who was a … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry
Tagged August 3rd, Mabel Eleanor Elwes, May Sarton, Mothers Day
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Word Cloud: MAYHAPPENSTANCE (Redux)
by NONA BLYTH CLOUD There are over 40 poets on the May birthday list, and I already knew the work of of 27 of them, and the names of several others, before I began to look them up. So May … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry, Word Cloud
Tagged Ariel Dorfman, May Poets, Mayhappenstance, Randall Jarrell, Sterling Allen Brown, Thomas Kinsella
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Word Cloud: EVER-AFTER (Redux)
by NONA BLYTH CLOUD Next week I’ll be back, hard at work, but my husband and I are on Part 36 of our Never-Ending Honeymoon for a few more days. I leave for you two poems. I wrote the first … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry, Word Cloud
Tagged Love Poetry, Patrick Stewart, Red Silk, Sonnet 116, True Love, Wedding Anniversary, William Shakespeare
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Word Cloud: TREES
by NONA BLYTH CLOUD Trees are becoming more important all the time. They produce almost one-third of the oxygen in Earth’s atmosphere. Trees are a major source of food, building materials, paper, medicine, cloth, and thousands of other things we … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry, Word Cloud
Tagged A. E. Housman, Elise Paschen, H.D. (Hilda Dolittle), Nathaniel Bellows, Rabindranath Tagore, Robert Frost, Trees
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TCS: Eyes of Another Intelligence – Earth Day Poems
. . 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