Category Archives: Poetry

Word Cloud: FLUTTERBYS

Posted on July 7, 2017 by wordcloud9

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 →

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Word Cloud: EXTRAVAGANT

Posted on June 30, 2017 by wordcloud9

by NONA BLYTH CLOUD There is just a breath of Purtianism lurking in most American poetry. We admire the winnowing of excess words, the spareness of poets like Frost and Sandburg and the prose of Hemingway and Steinbeck. American poets … Continue reading →

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Word Cloud: ONYX

Posted on June 23, 2017 by wordcloud9

by NONA BLYTH CLOUD I sometimes wonder if what critics condemn in the writers they review are really the motes and beams which blind them in their own work. When reviewer Peter Craft “damns with faint praise” the first published … Continue reading →

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Word Cloud: PILGRIM-SOUL

Posted on June 16, 2017 by wordcloud9

by NONA BLYTH CLOUD Today is Bloomsday, the day in 1904 that the events in the James Joyce novel Ulysses take place. I confess I have only read pieces of it, because it’s so densely written, and some of it I … Continue reading →

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Word Cloud: MIDLIFE

Posted on June 9, 2017 by wordcloud9

by NONA BLYTH CLOUD I guess it’s human nature to try to make things fit, whether it’s putting on roof tiles, or papers we need to file, or sorting the animal kingdom into family, genus and species – most of … Continue reading →

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Word Cloud: WINDHEART

Posted on June 2, 2017 by wordcloud9

by NONA BLYTH CLOUD My father’s favorite poem was “Ulysses,” written by Alfred, Lord Tennyson (link below). However, his favorite poet was John Masefield (1878-1967), for his many poems about the sea. Coincidentally, the two men were Poet Laureates of the … Continue reading →

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Word Cloud: MAYDEEP

Posted on May 26, 2017 by wordcloud9

by NONA BLYTH CLOUD “Now is the month of maying” says the old song by Thomas Morley. Our month of maying is drawing to a close, but we have explored far more than spring romance. Many of these end-of-May poets have taken … Continue reading →

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Word Cloud: MAYTIME

Posted on May 19, 2017 by wordcloud9

by NONA BLYTH CLOUD Welcome to the third week of the darling bards of May (with apologies to Shakespeare). As you might expect, most of the poets are English and American, but we do have one of the most famous Italian poets, … Continue reading →

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Word Cloud: MAYBLOOMS

Posted on May 12, 2017 by wordcloud9

by NONA BLYTH CLOUD This is the second in our series of May poets — and it’s almost ‘Too Many Poets” week — seventeen poets were born this week. There are probably even more, but these have either published in English, … Continue reading →

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Word Cloud: MAYHAPPENSTANCE

Posted on May 5, 2017 by wordcloud9

by NONA BLYTH CLOUD There are over 40 poets on the May birthday list, and I already knew the work of of 27 of them, and the names of several others, before I began to look them up. So May … Continue reading →

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