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Category Archives: Word Cloud
Word Cloud: AIR
by NONA BLYTH CLOUD AIR — it’s all around us, but invisible unless combined with something else. We must have it to live, yet air becomes an alien environment the moment we lift off into it, separating from the Earth. It is … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry, Word Cloud
Tagged Air, Arthur Symons and Philip Appleman, Bashō and Inahata Teiko, Ben Okri and Emily Dickinson, Sharlot Mabridth Hall and Christina Rossetti, Shinkichi Takahashi, Simon Armitage and Jimmy Santiago Baca
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Word Cloud: EARTH
by NONA BLYTH CLOUD Religion and Science — two different approaches to the questions, How Does Stuff Work? and Why Do Things Happen? When you start with the same questions, you often uncover similar answers. The Elements, for example. The “basic four”— … Continue reading
Word Cloud: RESISTANCE
by NONA BLYTH CLOUD In 1895, Japan was at war with China for supremacy over Korea, which was China’s most important client state. Japan wanted access to Korea’s coal and iron, and to use it as a buffer zone to prevent Chinese or Russian … Continue reading
Word Cloud: LIGHT
by NONA BLYTH CLOUD According to my mother, my first word after “mama” and “dada” was “light.” Well, actually, it was “ight” but I was pointing at a lighted lamp, so she knew what I meant. It’s turned out to … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry, Word Cloud
Tagged Bearing the Light, Denise Levertov, Light, Red Salamander, The First Things, The study of Last Things, This Great Unknowing
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Word Cloud: EXPERIENCES
by NONA BLYTH CLOUD I was in San Francisco for the “Summer of Love.” They were heady days. I got to hear all the cool bands, and anything seemed possible. People, mostly kids like me, came from many places seeking … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry, Word Cloud
Tagged David Biespiel, Haight Ashbery, Mahmoud Darwish, Mike Kitay, san francisco, Summer of Love, Thom Gunn, UC Berkeley
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Word Cloud: ALCHEMIST
by NONA BLYTH CLOUD There’s a wide spectrum of relationships between poets and readers. Some poets write with a searing clarity, and some write as if daring you to make any sense of their poems. Some write poems so personal … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry, Word Cloud
Tagged Alchemist, American letters at the Library of Congress, Body of This Death, Louise Bogan, Mid-20th Century New York Literary Scene, The Blue Estuaries, The New Yorker, U.S. Poet Laureate
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Word Cloud: SWELTERING
by NONA BLYTH CLOUD I don’t know what the weather is like where you are, but here, it’s too hot for serious poetry. So let’s take a look at some playful verse. It’s not too surprising that most funny poems … Continue reading
Word Cloud: CHRONICLER
by NONA BLYTH CLOUD Mary Jo Salter is an American poet, essayist, playwright, lyricist and editor, born August 15, 1954,in Grand Rapids, Michigan. She is a former editor at the Atlantic Monthly, poetry editor at the New Republic, and co-editor of the fourth … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry, Word Cloud
Tagged Chronicler, Ellis Island, John Lennon, Mary Jo Salter, Myrna Loy, NASA Discovery
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Word Cloud: LIGHTHOUSE
by NONA BLYTH CLOUD On August 7, 1789, the U.S. Congress approved an act for the “establishment and support of Lighthouse, Beacons, Buoys, and Public Piers.” Two hundred years later, the Congress designated August 7th as National Lighthouse Day. All … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry, Word Cloud
Tagged Alfred Corn, Helen Emma Maring, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Lighthouse, Lucy Larcom, Mathilde Blind, National Lighthouse Day
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Word Cloud: MUTTS
by Nona Blyth Cloud July 31 is National Mutt Day. Millions of dogs wind up in animal shelters across the U.S. every year. Most of them are Mutts. Too many of them never get adopted, but the ones who do … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry, Word Cloud
Tagged Dorothy Parker, Judith Viorst, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Linda Pastan, Mark Twain, Mutts, Robert Service
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