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Word Cloud: FAÇADE
by NONA BLYTH CLOUD In Georgette Heyer’s novel Regency Buck, Mrs. Scattergood’s description of herself fits my first impression of Edith Sitwell (1887-1964) perfectly: “I am shockingly expensive, but you won’t mind that, I daresay. Oh, you are looking at my gown … Continue reading
Word Cloud: WORDPLAY
by NONA BLYTH CLOUD American schoolchildren now go back to school before Labor Day in a number of school districts in 13 states. Between 1900 and 1990, most U.S. schools had a summer break beginning sometime in June and going … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry, Word Cloud
Tagged Children's Poetry, End of Summer, Fun, Humor, Jack Prelutsky, New School Year, WORDPLAY
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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
Word Cloud: UNCOMMON
by NONA BLYTH CLOUD There are poems that need to be seen on the page because the placement of each word, each punctuation mark, each space is part of the poem. There are other poems that ride on the tongue, … Continue reading
Word Cloud: NONSENSE
by NONA BLYTH CLOUD If we look behind the mask of Comedy, we will find the face of Tragedy. Laughter may be humanity’s greatest survival skill, a potent weapon against despair and the Unfairness of Life. Today, people in “industrialized … Continue reading
Posted in Greece, Italy, Poetry, Word Cloud
Tagged Alfred Lord Tennyson, Edward Lear, Edward Stanley Earl of Derby, England, nonsense, The Owl and the Pussycat
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Word Cloud: CONNECTION
by NONA BLYTH CLOUD When you finally come down to it, all Art is really about such a basic thing: Connection. Human to human, and human to art, whether it’s in a museum, or hung on your wall, up on … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry, Word Cloud
Tagged Connection, County Sligo Ireland, Josie Gray, Montenegro, Pacific Northwest, Port Angeles WA, Raymond Carver, Tess Gallagher
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Word Cloud: SUMMERFARE
by NONA BLYTH CLOUD Edward Clerihew Bentley (1875-1956) was born on July 10th in London, England. In his youth, he was educated at London’s prestigious St Paul’s School. Gilbert Keith Chesterton was a fellow student, and became his best friend. When … Continue reading
Word Cloud: FLUTTERBYS
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
Posted in Emily Dickinson, Poetry, Summer, Word Cloud
Tagged Flutterbys, Li Po, Matsuo Bashō, Pablo Neruda, Victor Hugo
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Word Cloud: EXTRAVAGANT
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
Posted in Poetry, Syria, Word Cloud
Tagged Extravagant, Jane Austen, Nizar Qabbani, Omar Khayyam, Six Day War, William Shakespeare
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