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Word Cloud: SARDONIC
by NONA BLYTH CLOUD “Men seldom make passes at girls who wear glasses.” “Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone.” “I hate writing, I love having written.” “By the time you swear you’re his, Shivering and … Continue reading
Posted in Estate Law, Humor, Literature, Movies, Poetry, Word Cloud
Tagged Algonquin Round Table, Dorothy Parker, Lillian Hellman, Martin Luther King Jr, NAACP, Sardonic, The New Yorker
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Word Cloud: SUBVERSIVE
BY NONA BLYTH CLOUD Whenever a small group hungers for power over a larger group, the weapons they use are the same: Terror and Guile. The larger the target area in geography, the greater the population, the more Guile must … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Education, Poetry, Society, Word Cloud
Tagged Children's Books, Goodnight Moon, Power Seekers, Shel Silverstein, Subversive
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Word Cloud: ANONYMOUS
by Nona Blyth Cloud Anonymous is an Afghan woman. I write blogs for different groups, and sometimes research for one turns into material for another. In this case, a news story found for a “War on Women” diary: Love, Poetry and … Continue reading
Posted in Afghanistan, Poetry, Word Cloud
Tagged Anonymous, Eliza Griswold, I Am the Beggar of the World, Mirman Baheer, Seamus Murphy, Women
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Word Cloud: PASSAGE
by Nona Blyth Cloud There are 93 days this year between Summer Solstice on June 21, and Autumnal Equinox on September 23. Today is day 53 of that in-between time. Even as temperatures scorch us, we are closer to summer’s … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry, Word Cloud
Tagged Change, Emily Dickinson, Passage, Rachel Hadas, Summer
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Word Cloud: WRATH
by Nona Blyth Cloud There are some poets who have a universal appeal, whose hauntingly beautiful words we turn to again and again for succor and an uplifting of spirit. Then there’s Diane Wakoski. “This book is dedicated to all … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Poetry, Word Cloud
Tagged Anais Nin, Diane Wakoski, Edward Abbey, Emerald Ice, Robinson Jeffers, The Motorcycle Betrayal Poems, Wrath
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Word Cloud: REFLECTION
by Nona Blyth Cloud For some writers, leaving the comforts of “civilization” for a simple life does wonders for their work. Henry David Thoreau is the best-known example of a writer doing more productive work out in the woods. When … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry, Word Cloud
Tagged Arizona, Henry David Thoreau, Journal of a Solitude, Maine, May Sarton, Reflection, Writing
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Word Cloud: MEMORABLE
By Nona Blyth Cloud The word “Poetry” covers a lot of ground, everything from the brief illumination of a Japanese Haiku to a great Norse Saga passed down through the generations by repetition of the words in chant or song. … Continue reading
Justice Antonin Scalia: The Bard of the Bench? (With a Mark Fiore Political Cartoon Video)
By Elaine Magliaro Award-winning political cartoonist Mark Fiore said that it only seemed fitting “to use Antonin Scalia’s own words for a poetry slam, since the justice’s snarky dissents are filled with so many poetic gems.” Fiore noted that the … Continue reading
FIREWORKS: An Acrostic Poem for the Fourth of July
By Elaine Magliaro I wrote the following poem about a decade ago. NOTE: An acrostic is a type of poem where the first, last, or other letters in a line spell out a particular word or phrase. The most common … Continue reading
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