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A Poem for This Fourth of July
This 4th of July I don’t feel much like celebrating. The Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave is in trouble, more divided, more unequal, and certainly less free, than ever. In November, I do believe we … Continue reading
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Tagged A Poem for This Fourth of July, Immigrants in Our Own Land, Jimmy Santiago Baca
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Word Cloud: INDEPENDENCE
by NONA BLYTH CLOUD Tomorrow is the 4th of July, the Independence Day of the United States of America. This will not be a Fourth as usual. Many of us will be spending it inside our homes, waiting for it … Continue reading
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Tagged #BlackLivesMatter, Alice Walker, Claude McKay, Fourth of July, Haki R. Madhubuti, Independence, Langston Hughes, Martin Espada, Tato Laviera
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A Poem for I Forgot Day
Billy Collins (March 22, 1941 – ) dubbed “the most popular poet in America” by Bruce Weber in the New York Times, was a two-term U.S. Poet Laureate (2001-2003), and has published many poetry collections, including Questions About Angels, The Art of Drowning and Nine Horses: Poems. It … Continue reading
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Tagged A Poem for I Forgot Day, Billy Collins, Forgetfulness, I Forgot Day
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A Perfect Poem for Creative Ice Cream Flavors Day
When I was a kid, I used to think, ‘Man, if I could ever affordall the ice cream I want to eat, that’s as rich as I ever want to be. – Jimmy Dean Jack Prelutsky (1940 – ), American poet and … Continue reading
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Tagged A Perfect Poem for Creative Ice Cream Flavors Day, Bleezer's Ice Cream, Creative Ice Cream Flavors Day, Ice Cream, Jack Prelutsky, Jimmy Dean
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A Poem by Czeslaw Milosz in Honor of His Birth Day
Czesław Miłosz (1911-2004) was born on June 30 in Šeteniai, Lithuania, the son of a Polish civil engineer, at a time of great upheaval. He became a Polish-American poet, prose writer, translator, and diplomat, regarded as one of the great … Continue reading
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Tagged A Song on the End of the World, Czeslaw Milosz, Nobel Prize in Literature, World War II
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TCS: Plague Year – There is a Light Somewhere
Good Morning! ______________________________ Welcome to The Coffee Shop, just for you early riserson Monday mornings. This is an Open Thread forum,so if you have an off-topic opinion burning a hole inyour brainpan, feel free to add a comment. ______________________________ … Continue reading
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Tagged Charles Bukowski, Emily Dickinson, John Greenleaf Whittier- Churchill-Frost-Elizabeth Alexander- Joy Harjo-ClarissaPinkolaEstes, Mary Oliver, Naomi Shihab Nye, TCS: Plague Year - There is a Light Somewhere, Wendell Berry, William Stafford
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Word Cloud: DISPLACED
First published in February 2017. Updated and reformatted. by NONA BLYTH CLOUD Illegal Immigrants. Aliens. Refugees. Migrants. Slave Trafficking. Words, most of them ugly, which represent an explosion of desperation among the world’s most vulnerable peoples. There are 70.8 million … Continue reading
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Tagged Displaced, Juan Felipe Herrera, Mahmoud Darwish, Migrants, Naomi Shihab Nye, Refugees, Solmaz Sharif, Warsan Shire
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A Poem for International Fairy Day
Some topics just call out for “old-fashioned” poetry – the kind that rhymes, and tells a story. Fairies are right up there on that list of themes. Walter de la Mare (1873-1956) – prolific English poet, and fiction author, best … Continue reading
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Tagged A Poem for International Fairy Day, Arthur Rackham, The Fairies Dancing, Walter de la Mare
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TCS: Reading Poetry at Night in a Plague Year
. Good Morning! _________________________________ Welcome to The Coffee Shop, just for you early riserson Monday mornings. This is an Open Thread forum,so if you have an off-topic opinion burning a hole inyour brainpan, feel free to add a comment. … Continue reading
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Tagged Allen Ginsberg and Li Po, Enid Blyton and Maggie Smith, Fireworks, Insomnia, Jessie Redmon Fauset and Maya Angelou, Muriel Rukeyser and Ada Limón, TCS: Reading Poetry at Night in a Plague Year, William E. Stafford and William Butler Yeats
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Word Cloud: ESSENCE
Essence was originally posted in February 2017, for Black History Month.It seems timely to republish it during the ongoing national discussion ofRacism in America. by NONA BLYTH CLOUD Essence – ‘the indispensable quality of something that determines its character’ – I … Continue reading
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Tagged African American, Being Black in America, Black History, Cancer, Charlie Parker, Essence, Langston Hughes, Lucille Clifton
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