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Tag Archives: Denise Levertov
Dark Fins Appear – Two Poems for Shark Awareness Day
Shark Awareness Day falls on July 14th annually. Sharks are one of the oldest species on the planet, with fossil records showing they were cruising our oceans at least 420 million years ago. Modern-day sharks have been around for about … Continue reading
Word Cloud: LIGHT
by NONA BLYTH CLOUD According to my mother, my first word after “mama” and “dada” was “light.” Well, actually, it was “ight” but I was pointing at a lighted lamp, so she knew what I meant. It’s turned out to … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry, Word Cloud
Tagged Bearing the Light, Denise Levertov, Light, Red Salamander, The First Things, The study of Last Things, This Great Unknowing
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TCS: Each Day Bears Witness – Riots in a Plague Year
. . Good Morning! _______________________________ Welcome to The Coffee Shop, just for you early riserson Monday mornings. This is an Open Thread forum,so if you have an off-topic opinion burning a hole inyour brainpan, feel free to add a comment. … Continue reading
Celebration: A Poem for World Poetry Day
Today is World Poetry Day. Denise Levertov (1923-1997) British-born American poet, known for her anti-Vietnam war poems in the 1960s and 1970s, which also included themes of destruction by greed, racism, and sexism. Her later poetry reflects her conversion to … Continue reading
Word Cloud: NOVEMBER
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
Posted in Poetry, Word Cloud
Tagged Denise Levertov, Dorothy Parker, Emily Dickinson, Hone Tuwhare, Lola Ridge, Maggie Dietz, November, Rita Dove, Tomas Tranströmer
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Word Cloud: BEGINNINGS (Redux)
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
Posted in Poetry, Word Cloud
Tagged Anti-War protests, Black Mountain poets, Denise Levertov, Kenneth Rexroth, Matthew Arnold, T.S. Eliot, William Butler Yeats
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Word Cloud: PRAISE (Redux)
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
Posted in Poetry, Word Cloud
Tagged Denise Levertov, Indiana, Mark Sanders, Paradise Cove, Philip Appleman, Praise, Santa Monica Pier, Whooping Cranes
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Word Cloud: DARKLING (revisited)
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
Posted in Poetry, Word Cloud
Tagged Alfred Noyes, Denise Levertov, Leah Bodine Drake, Oscar Wilde, Robert Frost, Thomas Lovell Beddoes, Thomas McGrath, Walter de la Mare
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ON THIS DAY: October 24, 2017
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
Word Cloud: NOVEMBER
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
Posted in Emily Dickinson, Poetry, Word Cloud
Tagged Denise Levertov, Dorothy Parker, Hone Tuwhare, Lola Ridge and Tomas Tranströmer, Maggie Dietz, November, Rita Dove
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