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Word Cloud: INDIGENOUS
by NONA BLYTH CLOUD Indigenous – aboriginal, earliest, first, native, original November is National Native American Heritage Month, and the day after Thanksgiving is Native American Heritage Day. Of course, some Native Americans don’t want to be called Native Americans … Continue reading
Word Cloud: WINDIGO
by NONA BLYTH CLOUD Louise Erdrich (1954 – ) grew up in North Dakota, where her Chippewa mother and German-American father taught at a boarding school run by the Bureau of Indian Affairs. She describes the land as a place where the “earth and sky touch … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry, Word Cloud
Tagged Bureau of Indian Affairs schools, Chippewa, Dartmouth, Louise Erdrich, North Dakota, Turtle Mountain Reservation, Wahpeton ND, Windigo
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Word Cloud: NOVEMBER
by NONA BLYTH CLOUD November. Depending on where you live, it’s still autumn, or already winter, or spring-into-summer if you’re south of the equator. Here in America, we’re going off Daylight Savings Time this weekend, and it will get dark … Continue reading
Posted in Emily Dickinson, Poetry, Word Cloud
Tagged Denise Levertov, Dorothy Parker, Hone Tuwhare, Lola Ridge and Tomas Tranströmer, Maggie Dietz, November, Rita Dove
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Word Cloud: PHANTASM
by NONA BLYTH CLOUD Autumn days slide into long nights of winter-dark –shadows shifting on the bedroom wall, soft footfalls pacing the hallway, or dried leaves scratching on a windowpane – all subtly take on an ominous quality. October is a month abounding … Continue reading
Word Cloud: DARKLING
by NONA BLYTH CLOUD The long days of summer are a pleasant memory. Now the warm days grow fewer, and the Autumn nights are longer, with winter-chill in the wee hours. It’s the darkling time of year, when we want … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry, Word Cloud
Tagged Alfred Noyes, Apparition, Darkling, Ghosts Changelings and Witches, Oscar Wilde, Robert Frost, The Highwayman, Thomas McGrath, Walter de la Mare
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Word Cloud: CAILLE
by NONA BLYTH CLOUD In Celtic mythology, the Hag is called the Cailleach, the ‘veiled one’ meaning ‘veiled in mystery.’ There’s a caille between the world of mortals and the ‘otherworld’ of the Aos Sí, also called the Sith or Sidhe, … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry, Word Cloud
Tagged Caille, Edith Wharton, Elizabeth Coatsworth, James Joyce, Neil Gaiman, Robert Graves, Samhain, William Butler Yeats
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Word Cloud: FIRE
by NONA BLYTH CLOUD FIRE – the twin-tempered element, comfort and terror, enemy and friend. It has warmed us, cooked our food, and lit our way in the dark since we lived in caves. But it has also murdered us, laying waste … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry, Word Cloud
Tagged 1919 Lynchings, Fire, Haiku, Lord Byron, May Sarton, Naomi Shihab Nye, Rudyard Kipling, Rumi, The Elements, William Shakespeare
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Word Cloud: WATER
by NONA BLYTH CLOUD WATER — after air, the element most essential to our lives. Oceans cover over 70% of the earth’s surface but, as Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s Ancient Mariner of the long grey beard and glittering eye tells us, it’s Water, … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry, Word Cloud
Tagged Billy Collins, Carl Sandburg, Denise Levertov, Pablo Neruda, Pete Seeger, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Water, William Shakespeare
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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 Arizona, Poetry, Word Cloud
Tagged Air Pollution, Basho, Cornwall, Emily Dickinson, Haiku, Nigeria, The Four Elements
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