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In Scotland, This is Hogmanay
This is updated from the original posting in January 2016, and the redux in 2018 ____________________________________________ A guid New Year to ane an` a` and mony may ye see! ____________________________________________ New Year’s Eve is celebrated around the world, but in … Continue reading
Posted in Holidays, Poetry
Tagged Calton Hill in Edinburgh, First Footing, For Auld Lang Syne, Hogmanay, Liz Lochhead, Robert Burns, Stonehaven
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Word Cloud: WABI-SABI (Redux)
Updated – originally posted on December 25, 2015 by Nona Blyth Cloud Wabi–sabi (侘寂) represents a comprehensive Japanese world view or aesthetic centered on the acceptance of transience and imperfection. The aesthetic is sometimes described as one of beauty that is “imperfect, impermanent, … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry, Word Cloud
Tagged Billy Collins, Holiday Season, Jane Kenyon, Shel Silverstein, Susan Elizabeth Howe, Wabi-Sabi
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TCS: The Good, the Sad and the Fugly
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 … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry, The Coffee Shop
Tagged Carol Ann Duffy, Christmas Eve, Erma Bombeck, Mistletoe, Samantha Bee, TCS, The Good the Sad and the Fugly, Walter de la Mare
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Summer Poem for the Southern Hemisphere
It’s Winter in the top half of the world, but south of the equator, the Sun is smiling. Hone Tuwhare (1922 -2008) was born in Kaikohe, Northland, New Zealand into the Maori Ngapuhi tribe. Well-known and much-loved in his own country, … Continue reading
Posted in New Zealand, Poetry
Tagged Hone Tuwhare, Maori, Summer Poem for the Southern Hemisphere, Toroa ~ Albatross
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BURNING THE CLOCKS (Redux)
Updated – Originally posted December 11, 2017, as part of The Coffee Shop series by Nona Blyth Cloud _____________________________________________ The hours of folly are measured by the clock; but of wisdom, no clock can measure. – William Blake
Posted in Holidays, Poetry, United Kingdom
Tagged Brighton & Hove, Burning the Clocks, Burning the Old Year, Naomi Shihab Nye, Same Sky, William Blake, Winter Solstice
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Word Cloud: WINDOWS (Redux)
by Nona Blyth Cloud Through the small tall bathroom window the December yard is gray and scratchy, the tree calligraphic. ………………………… – Dave Eggers The view from Dave Eggers’ bathroom window is a close match to the view from my kitchen window. Most … Continue reading
Posted in Emily Dickinson, Holidays, Poetry, Word Cloud
Tagged Dave Eggers, December, Joseph Brodsky, Kenn Nesbitt, Nancy McCleery, Robert Louis Stevenson
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TCS: In the Bleak Midwinter
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 … Continue reading
Posted in Holidays, Music, Poetry, The Coffee Shop
Tagged Christina Rossetti, Gustav Holst, In the Bleak Midwinter, King's College Cambridge, Oliver Herford, TCS
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Word Cloud: ENCRYPTED (Redux)
by NONA BLYTH CLOUD When the Germans invaded Denmark in April, 1940, Piet Hein (1905-1996) was a 34-year-old scientist and inventor, who had to decide between three responses: do nothing, flee to “neutral” Sweden — or join the Danish resistance movement. As he explained in … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry, Word Cloud
Tagged Danish Modern, Denmark, Grook, Kumbel, Piet Hein, Politiken newspaper, superellipse, WWII
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A Sigh for the Whims of Male Historians (Redux)
Originally posted on December 8, 2016 It was recorded on November 23, 534 BC, that Thespis of Icaria became the first actor to step out of the chorus and portray a character onstage. Now celebrated as International Thespian Day. ______________________________________
Posted in Poetry, Theatre
Tagged Anne Marshall, First Woman on the English Stage, Margaret Hughes, Othello, Thespis of Icaria, To the Disputed Woman Who First Graced the English Stage as Desdemona, William Shakespeare
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Word Cloud: SNOWBLIND (Redux)
by NONA BLYTH CLOUD It’s an irony that the things I like best about Christmas are traditions from places where Winter means snow and ice. The smell of pine warmed by glowing lights, carols full of cold Decembers, and hot … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry, Word Cloud
Tagged Another Kind of Christmas, Mary Oliver, Mistletoe, Snowblind, The Darkling Thrush, Thomas Hardy, White-Eyes
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