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World Poetry Day: A Poem by Billy Collins

Posted on March 21, 2019 by

reprinted from 2017 and 2018 It’s World Poetry Day again. Even if you think you don’t like poetry, I’m betting that you will like Billy Collins. He wrote the poem “Introduction to Poetry” about what he’d like people to get … Continue reading →

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Word Cloud: WABI-SABI (Redux)

Posted on December 28, 2018 by

Updated – originally posted on December 25, 2015 by Nona Blyth Cloud Wabi–sabi (侘寂) represents a comprehensive Japanese world view or aesthetic centered on the acceptance of transience and imperfection. The aesthetic is sometimes described as one of beauty that is “imperfect, impermanent, … Continue reading →

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Word Cloud: SWELTERING

Posted on July 27, 2018 by

by NONA BLYTH CLOUD I don’t know what the weather is like where you are, but here, it’s too hot for serious poetry. So let’s take a look at some playful verse. It’s not too surprising that most funny poems … Continue reading →

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WORLD POETRY DAY: A Poem by Billy Collins

Posted on March 21, 2018 by

reprinted from 2017 It’s World Poetry Day again. Even if you think you don’t like poetry, I’m betting that you will like Billy Collins. ________________________________________________ Here’s a poem he wrote about what he’d like people to get out of his … Continue reading →

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WORLD POETRY DAY: A Billy Collins Poem

Posted on March 21, 2017 by

It’s World Poetry Day again. Even if you think you don’t like poetry, I’m betting that you will like Billy Collins. ________________________________________________________________  Here’s a poem he wrote about what he’d like people to get out of his poems, and what … Continue reading →

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Word Cloud: WATER

Posted on September 30, 2016 by

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 →

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Word Cloud: UNORDINARY

Posted on April 15, 2016 by

by Nona Blyth Cloud The rarest, most daunting kind of poetry to write well is obvious yet original, and funny but profound, all at the same time. Typically, young poets start out writing poetry steeped in angst and tortured imagery, … Continue reading →

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