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Category Archives: Emily Dickinson
TCS – September: Of Red Notes, Dissembling Breezes, and the True World’s Cold
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. ______________________________ Another … Continue reading
A Poem for Sun Day
March 3 was designated as Sun Day by U.S. President Jimmy Carter in 1978, at the suggestion of Denis Hayes, who coordinated the first Earth Day in 1970. It is a day for advocacy of solar power. For the first … Continue reading
Posted in Emily Dickinson, Poetry
Tagged A Poem for Sun Day, Climate Crisis, I'll Tell You How the Sun Rose, President Jimmy Carter, Solar Power, Sun Day
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TCS: No Ordinary Time
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 Emily Dickinson, Poetry, The Coffee Shop
Tagged Emily Dickinson, Laura Kelly Fanucci, Mary Latter, No Ordinary Time, TCS, Tim Dlugos
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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: 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: HELIOS
by NONA BLYTH CLOUD The waning of summer is a theme which has inspired many poets. Helios, Greek god-charioteer of the Sun, a beautiful youth who crosses the sky each day in his golden chariot drawn by four “fire-darting steeds,” … Continue reading
Posted in Emily Dickinson, Poetry, Word Cloud
Tagged Emily Dickinson, Helios, James Brasfield, Jennifer Grotz, Les Murray, Luo Zhihai, Peter Crowther, Seamus Heaney
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APOLOGY
Apology for Her by Emily Dickinson Apology for Her Be rendered by the Bee— Herself, without a Parliament Apology for Me. _______________________________ Apologies Dear Readers for the missing Word Cloud post. Word Cloud will return at the usual time next … Continue reading
Word Cloud: FLUTTERBYS
by NONA BLYTH CLOUD Summer has filled her veins with light and her heart is washed with noon. – C. Day Lewis We are in deep summer now in the Northern Hemisphere. Summer brings abundance and sunlit hours that give … Continue reading
Posted in Emily Dickinson, Poetry, Summer, Word Cloud
Tagged Flutterbys, Li Po, Matsuo Bashō, Pablo Neruda, Victor Hugo
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Word Cloud: PORTENTS
by NONA BLYTH CLOUD The New Year. It has often seemed bright with the promise of better things to come. New Year 2017 fills me with foreboding, which is reflected in this week’s poems. While some people are out celebrating, … Continue reading
Posted in Emily Dickinson, Poetry, Word Cloud
Tagged Conor O’Callaghan, Evie Shockley, New Years, Nona Blyth Cloud, Portents, Richard Hoffman, Richard Wilbur
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