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Word Cloud: ALCHEMIST
by NONA BLYTH CLOUD There’s a wide spectrum of relationships between poets and readers. Some poets write with a searing clarity, and some write as if daring you to make any sense of their poems. Some write poems so personal … Continue reading
Word Cloud: UNCOMMON
by NONA BLYTH CLOUD There are poems that need to be seen on the page because the placement of each word, each punctuation mark, each space is part of the poem. There are other poems that ride on the tongue, … Continue reading
TCS: Music Wrapped in Mystery
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Posted in Music, The Coffee Shop
Tagged A Song Before Sunrise, BBC Documentary, Frederick Delius, On Hearing the First Cuckoo, Sir Thomas Beecham, Summer Night on the River, TCS
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Word Cloud: NONSENSE
by NONA BLYTH CLOUD If we look behind the mask of Comedy, we will find the face of Tragedy. Laughter may be humanity’s greatest survival skill, a potent weapon against despair and the Unfairness of Life. Today, people in “industrialized … Continue reading
Posted in Greece, Italy, Poetry, Word Cloud
Tagged Alfred Lord Tennyson, Edward Lear, Edward Stanley Earl of Derby, England, nonsense, The Owl and the Pussycat
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TCS: A Salute to Wacky, Weird and Wonderful Musical Instruments
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Word Cloud: CONNECTION
by NONA BLYTH CLOUD When you finally come down to it, all Art is really about such a basic thing: Connection. Human to human, and human to art, whether it’s in a museum, or hung on your wall, up on … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry, Word Cloud
Tagged Connection, County Sligo Ireland, Josie Gray, Montenegro, Pacific Northwest, Port Angeles WA, Raymond Carver, Tess Gallagher
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TCS: Music, Movies and Magic
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Posted in Movies, Music, The Coffee Shop
Tagged Movies Music and Magic, Silent Films, TCS, The Holiday, The Red Pony, Thief of Bagdad, To Kill a Mockingbird
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TCS: Happy 300th Birthday! Handel’s WATER MUSIC
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Word Cloud: SUMMERFARE
by NONA BLYTH CLOUD Edward Clerihew Bentley (1875-1956) was born on July 10th in London, England. In his youth, he was educated at London’s prestigious St Paul’s School. Gilbert Keith Chesterton was a fellow student, and became his best friend. When … Continue reading
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