Good Morning!
Authors
Recent Comments
TCS: When the World Turns Completely Upside Down
“We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.”
“Said the Sun to the Moon–’When you are but a lonely white crone,
Posted in Poetry, The Coffee Shop
Tagged Poets born in September, TCS, When the World Turns Completely Upside Down
Comments Off on TCS: When the World Turns Completely Upside Down
TCS: I Toss My Shoes Overboard, Because―
Good Morning!
______________________________
“I have always imagined that
paradise will be a kind of library.”
– Jorge Luis Borges
________________
“Have you ever heard a good joke?
If you’ve ever heard someone
just right, with the right pacing,
then you’re already on the
way to poetry. It’s about
using words in very precise
ways and using gesture.”
– Rita Dove,
U.S. Poet Laureate
1993-1995
________________
TCS: The Music Will Make Your Hips Laugh
Good Morning!
______________________________
“Do you think that anger is a sincere emotion
or just the timid motion of a fragile
heart trying to beat away its pain?”
– Andrea Gibson
________________
The only thing that can save the world
is the reclaiming of the awareness of
the world. That’s what poetry does.
– Allen Ginsberg
__________________
Posted in Poetry, The Coffee Shop
Tagged Poets born in August, TCS, The Music Will Make Your Hips Laugh
Comments Off on TCS: The Music Will Make Your Hips Laugh
TCS: What’s Good for the Soul
Good Morning!
______________________________
“What matters most is how well
you walk through the fire.”
– Charles Bukowski
_____________
“You are the lens of the world
through which the world may
become aware of itself. The world,
on the other hand, is the only lens
in which you can see yourself. It
is both together that make vision.”
– R.A. MacAvoy, from her
Lens of the World trilogy
_____________
Posted in Poetry, The Coffee Shop
Tagged Poets born in August, TCS, What’s Good for the Soul
1 Comment
TCS: Voices That Sound Like Apple Trees and Grape Vines
Good Morning!
______________________________
“August is the month of the high-sailing hawks …”
— John Burroughs, American Naturalist
________________
“When I began to listen to poetry, it’s
when I began to listen to the stones,
and I began to listen to what the clouds
had to say, and I began to listen to other.
And I think, most importantly for all of
us, then you begin to learn to listen to
the soul, the soul of yourself in here,
which is also the soul of everyone else.”
— Joy Harjo, first Native American
U.S. Poet Laureate (2019-2022)
________________
Posted in Poetry, The Coffee Shop
Tagged Poets born in August, TCS, Voices That Sound Like Apple Trees and Grape Vines
Comments Off on TCS: Voices That Sound Like Apple Trees and Grape Vines
TCS: What Wind Now in the Long Hot Summer Morning Stirs
Good Morning!
______________________________
“The self is the least of it.
Let our scars fall in love.”
― Galway Kinnell,
American Poet
___________________
“We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time.”
― T. S. Eliot, Little Gidding
___________________
Posted in Poetry, The Coffee Shop
Tagged Poets born in July and August, TCS, What Wind Now in the Long Hot Summer Morning Stirs
Comments Off on TCS: What Wind Now in the Long Hot Summer Morning Stirs
TCS: Wake Up, You’ll Need Your Wits About You
Good Morning!
_______________________________
“To be nobody-but-yourself — in a world which is doing
its best, night and day, to make you everybody else —
means to fight the hardest battle which any human
being can fight; and never stop fighting.”
─ Laura Riding,
from “Four Unposted Letters to Catherine” (1930)
_____________________________
Whoever you are, no matter how lonely,
the world offers itself to your imagination,
calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and
exciting – over and over announcing
your place in the family of things.”
─ Mary Oliver
Posted in Poetry, The Coffee Shop
Tagged Poets Born in July, TCS, Wake Up You’ll Need Your Wits About You
1 Comment
TCS: You’ll Have Poor Company On That Other Road
Good Morning!
___________________________________________
To live in this world
you must be able
to do three things:
to love what is mortal;
to hold it
against your bones knowing
your own life depends on it;
and, when the time comes to let it go,
to let it go
– Mary Oliver,
from “In Blackwater Woods”
_____________
Late Fragment
And did you get what
you wanted from this life, even so?
I did.
And what did you want?
To call myself beloved, to feel myself
beloved on the earth.
– Raymond Carver,
on his tombstone
Posted in Poetry, The Coffee Shop
Tagged Poets Born in July, TCS, You’ll Have Poor Company On That Other Road
Comments Off on TCS: You’ll Have Poor Company On That Other Road
TCS: For the Love of Dogs
Good Morning!
__________________________________________
I myself have known some profoundly thoughtful dogs.
– James Thurber
_____________
The dog has got more fun out of Man than
Man has got out of the dog, for the clearly
demonstrable reason that Man is the more
laughable of the two animals.
– James Thurber
_____________
Posted in Poetry, The Coffee Shop
Tagged E B White, For the Love of Dogs, James Thurber, TCS
1 Comment
TCS: Even If They Set a Diamond in Your Glass Eye
Good Morning!
__________________________________________
“Poetry is the mother-tongue of the human race.”
– Johann Georg Hamann
_____________
“Lock up your libraries if you like; but
there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you
can set upon the freedom of my mind.”
― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own
_____________
Posted in Poetry, The Coffee Shop
Tagged 13 Poets, Even If They Set a Diamond in Your Glass Eye, Poets Born in July, TCS
1 Comment
Nicole Plyler Fisk
Gene Howington
FFS Guest Blogger
Joy of Fishes
Chuck Stanley
shortfinals
Terry Welshans
ann li-summers
wordcloud9
Flowers For Socrates 