Category Archives: Word Cloud

Word Cloud: DIGGER

Posted on April 14, 2017 by wordcloud9

by NONA BLYTH CLOUD April is a good month for poetry-lovers. Just a partial list of April’s birthdays includes: Edmond Rostand, Maya Angelou, Algernon Charles Swinburne, William Wordsworth, Louise Gluck, Charlotte Brontë, Robert Penn Warren, Walter del la Mare, Ted … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry, Word Cloud | Tagged , , , , , , , | Comments Off on Word Cloud: DIGGER

Word Cloud: DISINHERITED

Posted on April 7, 2017 by wordcloud9

by NONA BLYTH CLOUD In pursuit of poetic history for National Poetry Month, I’ve dipped into the dusty past to look at a poet who was once an international figure in literary circles, but whose work has dwindled in the … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry, Word Cloud | Tagged , , , , , , | Comments Off on Word Cloud: DISINHERITED

Word Cloud: RULEBREAKER

Posted on March 31, 2017 by wordcloud9

by NONA BLYTH CLOUD My Theatre Arts teacher in high school told me: “You should know the rules before you break them.” It wasn’t an original thought, but most thoughts aren’t – after all, about 108 billion people have been living and … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry, Word Cloud | Tagged , , , , , , , | Comments Off on Word Cloud: RULEBREAKER

Word Cloud: CONTRARY

Posted on March 24, 2017 by wordcloud9

by NONA BLYTH CLOUD ‘Light Verse’ – one of those labels like ‘children’s book’ that makes a many people assume a writer’s work is not quite good enough to be called poetry or literature. But labels, like the covers of books, are far … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry, Word Cloud | Tagged , , , , , , , , | Comments Off on Word Cloud: CONTRARY

Word Cloud: COOLE

Posted on March 17, 2017 by wordcloud9

by NONA BLYTH CLOUD Today is Saint Patrick’s Day, and it’s the middle of Women’s History Month, so my choice for this week’s poet was easy: Isabella Augusta, Lady Gregory (1852 – 1932). She was even born on March 15, just … Continue reading →

Posted in Ireland, Poetry, Word Cloud | Tagged , , , , , , | 3 Comments

Word Cloud: SKIN

Posted on March 10, 2017 by wordcloud9

by NONA BLYTH CLOUD Skin is the largest organ of the human body, the envelope that keeps everything else together. It’s also a map that tells strangers something about who we are, like our approximate age, and the kind of … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry, Word Cloud | Tagged , , , , , , , | 3 Comments

Word Cloud: PARADOX

Posted on March 3, 2017 by wordcloud9

by NONA BLYTH CLOUD “Cut off from the sight of God, modern man wanders about in his Land of Unlikeness, driven by greed and cruelty.” – Jerome Mazzaro, commenting on Robert Lowell’s first poetry collection Land of Unlikeness Robert Lowell (1917–1977) was … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry, Word Cloud | Tagged , , , , , , , | 3 Comments

Word Cloud: PROFANITY

Posted on February 24, 2017 by wordcloud9

by NONA BLYTH CLOUD Please take this week’s title as a warning. If you find profanity offensive, this installment of Word Cloud is one you may want to skip. An article I skimmed for this week’s post was called Poets Nobody Reads, which … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry, Word Cloud | Tagged , , , , , , , | 14 Comments

Word Cloud: ESSENCE

Posted on February 17, 2017 by wordcloud9

by NONA BLYTH CLOUD Essence – ‘the indispensable quality of something that determines its character’ – I consider it poetry’s holy grail. Taking language down to just the exact words needed, eliminating anything that could distract from what’s essential. Lucille Clifton (1936-2010) is a master of essence. … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry, Word Cloud | Tagged , , , , , | 9 Comments

Word Cloud: EMPATHY

Posted on February 10, 2017 by wordcloud9

by NONA BLYTH CLOUD I’ve read a lot of statements by writers about writing, and they are all true, but many of them are only true for that one writer and their particular ‘process.’ I like this comment by Nikki … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry, Word Cloud | Tagged , , , , , , | 1 Comment