Category Archives: Poetry

Word Cloud: CONVERGENCE

Posted on May 11, 2018 by wordcloud9

by NONA BLYTH CLOUD Writing a weekly column about poetry is sometimes frustrating. It’s a subject that so many people in my country find “irrelevant” to Modern Life. But if three contestants in this week’s Jeopardy! Teachers’ Tournament had been … Continue reading →

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Word Cloud: EXILE

Posted on May 4, 2018 by wordcloud9

by NONA BLYTH CLOUD Joseph Brodsky (1940-1996) was born as Iosif Alexandrochich Brodsky, in Leningrad, on May 24, 1940. He left school at the age of fifteen, taking jobs in a morgue, a mill, a ship’s boiler room, and on … Continue reading →

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Word Cloud: EVER-AFTER

Posted on April 27, 2018 by wordcloud9

by NONA BLYTH CLOUD Next week I’ll be back, hard at work, but my husband and I are still on Part 35 of our Never-Ending Honeymoon for a few more days. I leave for you two poems.  I wrote the … Continue reading →

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Word Cloud: LOVE

Posted on April 20, 2018 by wordcloud9

by NONA BLYTH CLOUD This will be short and I hope sweet. I’m pressed for time because my husband and I are about to leave on our Never-Ending Honeymoon, Part 35. When we got married, we were only able to … Continue reading →

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TCS: Lend Me Your EARS – Part One – Shakespeare’s Songs and Poetry

Posted on April 16, 2018 by wordcloud9

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 →

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Word Cloud: WORD-WARRIOR

Posted on April 13, 2018 by wordcloud9

by NONA BLYTH CLOUD Looking up a word in another language is often a doorway into the past of its speakers. When I did a search for the Maori word for “warrior,” the answers were far more than just words: … Continue reading →

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TCS: Shakespeare’s Mysterious Offstage Life

Posted on April 9, 2018 by wordcloud9

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Word Cloud: EVERYDAY

Posted on April 6, 2018 by wordcloud9

by NONA BLYTH CLOUD I wrote this poem after opening my copy of For the Sleepwalkers to begin work on an earlier, shorter version of this profile, which I originally published at another website. There was still a faint smokiness in the … Continue reading →

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TCS: Shakespeare, April and The Firebird

Posted on April 2, 2018 by wordcloud9

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A Poem for the First Day of National Poetry Month

Posted on April 1, 2018 by wordcloud9

Some People Like Poetry by Wislawa Szymborska Some people— that means not everyone. Not even most of them, only a few. Not counting school, where you have to, and poets themselves, you might end up with something like two per … Continue reading →

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