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The Coffee Shop – Kindness
The Coffee Shop is an open thread-style discussion forum for human interest news of the day. —oooOooo– This is an open thread. There are several hosts, each host being responsible for picking a “theme of the day” and starting … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry
Tagged KIndness, Naomi Shihab Nye, The Coffee Shop
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Word Cloud: MYSTIC
by Nona Blyth Cloud “Abstract Minimalist” — Sometimes the labels that get attached to a poet’s work obscure rather than illuminate. The poet Robert Lax (1915 – 2000) pared down his work and his life to the essentials. Robert Lax dealt … Continue reading
Posted in Greece, Poetry, United States, Word Cloud
Tagged MYSTIC, Patmos, Robert Lax, Thomas Merton
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The Coffee Shop – BREVITY is the Soul of Wit
The Coffee Shop is an open thread-style discussion forum for human interest news of the day. —oooOooo– This is an open thread. There are several hosts, each host being responsible for picking a “theme of the day” and starting the discussion. … Continue reading
Word Cloud: UNDAUNTED
by NONA BLYTH CLOUD It’s 1665, and you’re an Englishwoman married to a Dutchman, who dies suddenly, leaving you nothing but debts. You’re recruited as an ‘intelligence gatherer’ for King Charles II, using the code name “Astrea.” The Crown pays for … Continue reading
Word Cloud: GHOSTWRITER
by Nona Blyth Cloud I hope Sherman Alexie (1966 — ) will forgive me for the title. I chose it to make a point: far too many people in the U.S. do think of Indians as ghosts from the past. Alexie has said … Continue reading
Word Cloud – KINTSUGI
by NONA BLYTH CLOUD The big philosophical questions that humankind has been struggling with for millennia — Birth, Death, The Meaning of Life, Love, Infinity — are inextricably woven into our daily lives. We are all born, we all die, we all wonder … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Music, Poetry, Word Cloud
Tagged Aging, Chana Bloch, Japanese aesthetic, Kintsugi, Stradivarius, Weddings
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Word Cloud: GLANCE
by Nona Blyth Cloud I collect odd bits of historic detail and stray facts. I look for unlikely connections. Sometimes my mind wanders off in a completely new direction in the middle of a sentence, and what I started out … Continue reading
Word Cloud: UNORDINARY
by Nona Blyth Cloud The rarest, most daunting kind of poetry to write well is obvious yet original, and funny but profound, all at the same time. Typically, young poets start out writing poetry steeped in angst and tortured imagery, … Continue reading
Posted in Dogs, Humor, National Poetry Month, Poetry, Word Cloud
Tagged Aging, Billy Collins, Ear Worms, Edwin Hubbel Chapin, U.S. Poet Laureate, Unordinary
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Word Cloud: INCURSION
by Nona Blyth Cloud In an interview in the Kenyon Review in 2103, the poet Solmaz Sharif was asked: What have you learned about the writing process in the last five years? “…I’m surprised to find that in addition to … Continue reading
Posted in Homeland Security, Iran, Poetry, Terrorism, United States, US Military, Word Cloud
Tagged Ahwazi Arab, Ethnic Cleansing, Incursion, Iran-Iraq War, National Poetry Month, Solmaz Sharif
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