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Tag Archives: Edna St. Vincent Millay
TCS: Born on Washington’s Birthday – Hard Times Ain’t Quit
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.____________________________ Some of us have been … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry, The Coffee Shop
Tagged Afternoon On A Hill, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Hard Times Ain’t Quit, MeridelLeSeuer, TCS: Born on Washington’s Birthday, The Great Depression, Women on the Breadlines
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Dear Thursday
by IRENE FOWLER, Contributor “Jupiter, not wanting man’s life to be wholly gloomy and grim, has bestowed far more passion than reason.” – Desiderius Erasmus Whatever your preferred flavour of life is – sweet, savoury, spicy or somethin’ else, welcome … Continue reading
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Tagged Days of the Week, Dear Thursday, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Irene Fowler, Thursday
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TCS: Death, Taxes and Poetry
(originally posted April 15, 2019) . . 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 … Continue reading
Posted in National Poetry Month, Poetry, The Coffee Shop
Tagged Bai Juyi, Beatles - Taxman, Death Taxes and Poetry, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Tax Day - April 15, TCS, W.H. Auden
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Word Cloud: JUSTICE
by NONA BLYTH CLOUD I’m just an old ’60s peacenik, so I believe there is no true peace without justice. Yet what is Justice? To me, it means we all get a fair chance – everybody gets something, but nobody … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry, Word Cloud
Tagged Edna St. Vincent Millay, Emmeline Pankhurst - Plato, Frederick Douglass - Coretta Scott King - Gloria Steinem, justice, Langston Hughes, Rudyard Kipling, Shushiki - Saint Augustine - Maya Angelou
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TCS: One Little Room an Everywhere – Life 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
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Tagged Ada Limón, Billy Collins, Carol Ann Duffy, Edna St. Vincent Millay, John Donne, Joy Harjo, One Little Room an Everywhere – Life in a Plague Year, TCS
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A Poem for Weed Appreciation Day
Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950) was born in Maine, graduated from Vassar College in 1917, and became a well-known poet and playwright, with a strong feminist style. She was the third woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, in 1923, … Continue reading
Word Cloud: APPARITION
by NONA BLYTH CLOUD Samhain or Samhuin (SAH-win or SOW-in – rhymes with cow) was the first day of the new year in the ancient Celtic calendar, the beginning of the “darker half” of the year. Samhain is Irish Gaelic. … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry, Word Cloud
Tagged Apparition, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Ghosts, Halloween, Hughes Mearns, Samhain, Yusef Komunyakaa
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Word Cloud: DARKNESS
by NONA BLYTH CLOUD The pages of our calendars are flying off like autumn leaves. To the delight of children, we are nearing that annual candy-scavenge in America: Halloween. Our celebrations of the eerie and macabre are pretty bland compared to … Continue reading
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Tagged Edna St. Vincent Millay, Emily Dickinson, Hughes Mearns, Maurice Kilwein Guevara, Robert Frost, Walter del al Mare, William Shakespeare, Yusef Komunyakaa
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TCS: This Whole Experiment of Green
. . . 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 … Continue reading
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Tagged April is National Poetry Month, Charles Lamb . Carl Sandburg, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Emily Dickinson . Ada Limón, T.S. Eliot Ogden Nash, TCS, This Whole Experiment of Green, William Shakespeare
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Word Cloud: ENTHRALL
by NONA BLYTH CLOUD Witches. In cultures around the world, stories are told of women who have some extraordinary power: the gift of foretelling the future; of casting spells to alter reality; of mysteriously healing the sick; of cursing their … Continue reading
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Tagged Anne Sexton, Edna St. Vincent Millay, ENTHRALL, Henry Adams Bellows, Jane Baxter, Poetic Edda, Völuspá, Witches
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