Category Archives: Word Cloud

Word Cloud: MIDLIFE (Redux)

Posted on June 7, 2019 by wordcloud9

by NONA BLYTH CLOUD I guess it’s human nature to try to make things fit, whether it’s putting on roof tiles, or papers we need to file, or sorting the animal kingdom into family, genus and species – most of … Continue reading →

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Word Cloud: MAYDEEP (Redux)

Posted on May 31, 2019 by wordcloud9

by NONA BLYTH CLOUD “Now is the month of maying” says the old song by Thomas Morley. Our month of maying is drawing to a close, but we have explored far more than spring romance. Many of these end-of-May poets have taken … Continue reading →

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Word Cloud: MAYTIME (Redux)

Posted on May 24, 2019 by wordcloud9

by NONA BLYTH CLOUD Welcome to the third installment of the darling bards of May (with apologies to Shakespeare). As you might expect, most of the poets are English and American, but we do have one of the most famous Italian poets, … Continue reading →

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Word Cloud: MAYBLOOMS (Redux)

Posted on May 17, 2019 by wordcloud9

by NONA BLYTH CLOUD This is the second in our series of May poets — and it’s almost ‘Too Many Poets”  — seventeen poets. There are probably even more, but these have either published in English, or had their poems translated into … Continue reading →

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Word Cloud: MAYHAPPENSTANCE (Redux)

Posted on May 10, 2019 by wordcloud9

by NONA BLYTH CLOUD There are over 40 poets on the May birthday list, and I already knew the work of of 27 of them, and the names of several others, before I began to look them up. So May … Continue reading →

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Word Cloud: EVER-AFTER (Redux)

Posted on May 3, 2019 by wordcloud9

by NONA BLYTH CLOUD Next week I’ll be back, hard at work, but my husband and I are on Part 36 of our Never-Ending Honeymoon for a few more days. I leave for you two poems. I wrote the first … Continue reading →

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Word Cloud: TREES

Posted on April 26, 2019 by wordcloud9

by NONA BLYTH CLOUD Trees are becoming more important all the time. They produce almost one-third of the oxygen in Earth’s atmosphere. Trees are a major source of food, building materials, paper, medicine, cloth, and thousands of other things we … Continue reading →

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Word Cloud: EXTRAVAGANT (Redux for Poetry Month)

Posted on April 12, 2019 by wordcloud9

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 →

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Word Cloud: DIGGER (Redux – National Poetry Month)

Posted on April 5, 2019 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 →

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Word Cloud: RULEBREAKER (Redux – Women’s History Month)

Posted on March 29, 2019 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 →

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