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Tag Archives: Dorothy Parker
TCS: Under Deeper Skies Than Mine – World Tourism Day
Good Morning! ______________________________ Welcome to The Coffee Shop, just for you early risers on Monday mornings. This is an Open Thread forum, so if you have an off-topic opinion burning a hole in your brainpan, feel free to add a comment. ______________________________ You … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry, The Coffee Shop
Tagged Billy Collins, C.P. Cavafy, Dorothy Parker, Edna St Vincent Millay, Francis Quarles, Margaret Atwood, Matsuo Bashō, nayyirah waheed, TCS - Under Deeper Skies Than Mine - World Tourism Day, Walt Whitman-Mark Twain
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TCS: Clearing the Clouded Brain – Seven Poets
. . . .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. ______________________________ Ten thousand … Continue reading
TCS: Brightness Appears Showing Us Everything
Good Morning! ______________________________ Welcome to The Coffee Shop, just for you early risers on Monday mornings. This is an Open Thread forum, so if you have an off-topic opinion burning a hole in your brainpan, feel free to add a comment. ______________________________ “If … Continue reading
ON THIS DAY: August 22, 2020
August 22nd is Be an Angel Day * Eat a Peach Day Pecan Torte Day Tooth Fairy Day Take Your Cat to the Vet Day _________________________________ MORE! Dorothy Parker, Ray Bradbury and Althea Gibson, click
Posted in History, Holidays, On This Day
Tagged Althea Gibson, Denton Cooley, Dorothy Parker, Josef Strauss, Karen Silkwood, Mary McGrory, Ray Bradbury
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Word Cloud: SWELTERING
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
Word Cloud: MUTTS
by Nona Blyth Cloud July 31 is National Mutt Day. Millions of dogs wind up in animal shelters across the U.S. every year. Most of them are Mutts. Too many of them never get adopted, but the ones who … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry, Word Cloud
Tagged Dorothy Parker, Judith Viorst, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Linda Pastan, Mark Twain, Mutts, Robert Service
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Word Cloud: SARDONIC
by NONA BLYTH CLOUD “Men seldom make passes at girls who wear glasses.” “Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone.” “I hate writing, I love having written.” “By the time you swear you’re his, Shivering and … Continue reading
TCS: The Dog Trots Freely – Poems for National Mutt Day
Good Morning! __________________________________ Welcome to The Coffee Shop, just for you early risers on Monday mornings. This is an Open Thread forum, so if you have an off-topic opinion burning a hole in your brainpan, feel free to add a … Continue reading
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Tagged Dorothy Parker, Judith Viorst, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Linda Pastan, Mark Twain, Robert Service, TCS, The Dog Trots Freely - Poems for National Mutt Day
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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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ON THIS DAY: August 22, 2019
August 22nd is Be an Angel Day * Eat a Peach Day Pecan Torte Day Tooth Fairy Day Take Your Cat to the Vet Day _______________________________________ MORE! Dorothy Parker, Ray Bradbury and Althea Gibson, click
Posted in History, Holidays, On This Day
Tagged Althea Gibson, Claude Debussy, Dorothy Parker, Edvard Munch, Josef Strauss, Mary McGrory, Ray Bradbury
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