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TCS: A Sky Full of Stars – Coldplay
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Posted in Emily Dickinson, Music, Poetry, The Coffee Shop
Tagged A Sky Full of Stars, Coldplay, Griffith Park Observatory, T.E. Hulme, TCS, Ted Kooser
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Word Cloud: ENTHRALL
by NONA BLYTH CLOUD Witches. In cultures around the world, stories are told of women who have some extraordinary power: the gift of foretelling the future; of casting spells to alter reality; of mysteriously healing the sick; of cursing their … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry, Word Cloud
Tagged Anne Sexton, Edna St. Vincent Millay, ENTHRALL, Henry Adams Bellows, Jane Baxter, Poetic Edda, Völuspá, Witches
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Word Cloud: PHANTASM (revisited)
by NONA BLYTH CLOUD Autumn days slide into long nights of winter-dark –shadows shifting on the bedroom wall, soft footfalls pacing the hallway, or dried leaves scratching on a windowpane – all subtly take on an ominous quality. October is a month abounding with myths … Continue reading
A Poem for Black Poetry Day
Coal by Audre Lorde I Is the total black, being spoken From the earth’s inside. There are many kinds of open. How a diamond comes into a knot of flame How a sound comes into a word, coloured By who … Continue reading
Posted in Civil Rights, Poetry
Tagged Audre Lorde, Black Poetry Day, Black Women, Coal, Feminism, LGBT rights
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TCS: Autumn Signs and Portents in Shakespeare
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Posted in Poetry, The Coffee Shop
Tagged Autumn, Ghosts and Witches, Halloween, Hamlet, Julius Caesar, Macbeth, TCS, William Shakespeare
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Word Cloud: DARKLING (revisited)
by NONA BLYTH CLOUD The long days of summer are a pleasant memory. Now the warm days grow fewer, and the Autumn nights are longer, with winter-chill in the wee hours. It’s the darkling time of year, when we want … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry, Word Cloud
Tagged Alfred Noyes, Denise Levertov, Leah Bodine Drake, Oscar Wilde, Robert Frost, Thomas Lovell Beddoes, Thomas McGrath, Walter de la Mare
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Word Cloud: CAILLE (‘Veil’ revisted)
by NONA BLYTH CLOUD This is a re-post of a Word Cloud from 2016, because it’s October, the month for otherworldly poetry, and things that go bump in the night. In Celtic mythology, the Hag is called the Cailleach, the ‘veiled one’ … Continue reading
Word Cloud: SHADOWLIGHT (revisited)
by NONA BLYTH CLOUD The remarkable Etel Adnan, who excels as a visual artist, and equally as a writer, is 93 years old. On September 1, 2018, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art opened an exhibition of her artwork … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry, Word Cloud
Tagged Arab-American writers, Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres, Etel Adnan, Exile, Shadowlight, Surge, The Arab Apocalypse
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Word Cloud: SUBVERSIVE (revisited)
NOTE: This was originally posted on September 9, 2015. It has been re-formatted, but the message seems all too timely now, without needing updating. by NONA BLYTH CLOUD Whenever a small group hungers for power over a larger group, the … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry, Word Cloud
Tagged Books for Children, Power Seekers, Propaganda, Shel Silverstein, Subversive, Terror and Guile, The Arts
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