Tag Archives: Denise Levertov

Word Cloud: BEGINNINGS (Redux)

Posted on January 18, 2019 by

Originally posted on January 15, 2016 – Revised and expanded by NONA BLYTH CLOUD For there’s more enterprise In walking naked     – William Butler Yeats, “A Coat” ________________________________________________ from A Cloak by Denise Levertov  And I walked naked from the … Continue reading →

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Word Cloud: PRAISE (Redux)

Posted on January 4, 2019 by

Originally posted on January 8, 2016 by Nona Blyth Cloud After the frantic weeks from Thanksgiving to New Years, we’re all ready for that “long winter’s nap” we never got in December. But in the U.S., that can be hard … Continue reading →

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Word Cloud: DARKLING (revisited)

Posted on October 12, 2018 by

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 →

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ON THIS DAY: October 24, 2017

Posted on October 24, 2017 by

October 24th is Tony Bennett Day * Food Day * Through-the-Lens Day * International United Nations Day * World Development Information Day * ___________________________________________________________ MORE!  Belva Lockwood, Alice Perry and Denise Levertov, click

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Word Cloud: NOVEMBER

Posted on November 4, 2016 by

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 →

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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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World Poetry Day: Celebration

Posted on March 21, 2016 by

In honor of World Poetry Day, this poem from Denise Levertov (1923-1997): Celebration … Brilliant, this day – a young virtuoso of a day. Morning shadow cut by sharpest scissors, deft hands. And every prodigy of green – whether it’s ferns … Continue reading →

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