Category Archives: Word Cloud

Word Cloud: WRATH (Revised and Revisited)

Posted on August 16, 2019 by wordcloud9

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 →

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WORD CLOUD: Afterimage (Redux)

Posted on August 9, 2019 by wordcloud9

Given the increasingly divisive rhetoric with which we are being bombarded in the U.S., and the resultant racial tension, mass shootings and other violence it inspires, I am reprising this profile of Audre Lorde, a writer whose work I find … Continue reading →

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Word Cloud: SUMMERFARE (redux)

Posted on August 2, 2019 by wordcloud9

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 →

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Word Cloud: NONSENSE

Posted on July 26, 2019 by wordcloud9

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 →

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Word Cloud: CONNECTION (redux)

Posted on July 19, 2019 by wordcloud9

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 →

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Word Cloud: MULTI-RACIAL (Redux)

Posted on July 12, 2019 by wordcloud9

by NONA BLYTH CLOUD She was born as Alice Ruth Moore on July 19, 1875, in New Orleans, Louisiana. Her heritage was a complex mix: Creole, which in her city meant descendants of early French and Spanish inhabitants; African American, … Continue reading →

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Word Cloud: Flutterbys (Redux)

Posted on July 5, 2019 by wordcloud9

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 →

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Word Cloud: REQUIEM

Posted on June 28, 2019 by wordcloud9

NOTE: This was originally posted July 1, 2016. With the daily news here in the U.S. of families seeking asylum being separated, children sleeping on concrete floors under glaring lights all night, without soap, or a toothbrush, or even a … Continue reading →

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Word Cloud: ONYX (Redux)

Posted on June 21, 2019 by wordcloud9

by NONA BLYTH CLOUD I sometimes wonder if what critics condemn in the writers they review are really the motes and beams which blind them in their own work. When reviewer Peter Craft “damns with faint praise” the first published … Continue reading →

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Word Cloud: PILGRIM-SOUL (Redux)

Posted on June 14, 2019 by wordcloud9

by NONA BLYTH CLOUD Next Sunday is Bloomsday, the day in 1904 that the events in the James Joyce novel Ulysses take place. I confess I have only read pieces of it, because it’s so densely written, and some of it I … Continue reading →

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