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Tag Archives: Hilaire Belloc
TCS: If Humanity Seems to Have Left You Behind
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. ____________________________ “During … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry, The Coffee Shop
Tagged Hilaire Belloc, If Humanity Seems to Have Left You Behind, John Ashbery, Maya Angelou, Stanley Kunitz, TCS, Week of July 25-30
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TCS: The Way to Treat a Lion
. . 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 al-Khansa, Friedrich Schiller, Hilaire Belloc, John Ciardi, Margaret Atwood, Richard Brautigan, TCS: The Way to Treat a Lion, William Hamilton, William Shakespeare
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ON THIS DAY: July 27, 2020
July 27th is Bagpipe Appreciation Day Barbie-in-a-Blender Day Crème Brulee Day Helen Keller Day Scotch Whisky Day Walk on Stilts Day ________________________________ MORE! Myrtle Lawrence, Frederick Banting, and Marielle Franco, click
Posted in History, Holidays, On This Day
Tagged Frederick Banting, Hilaire Belloc, Lucy Maynard Salmon, Mama Cass Elliot, Marielle Franco, Myrtle Lawrence, Vincent Van Gogh
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Word Cloud: WHIRLIGIG
by NONA BLYTH CLOUD What is one to make of Hilaire Belloc (1870-1953)? A man of so many contradictions he seems like a human whirligig. Anti-German and Anti-Semitic. Combative and intolerant in his philosophical and political writings, but whimsical and amusing … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry, Word Cloud
Tagged A Bad Child’s Book of Beasts, G.K. Chesterton, George Bernard Shaw, Hilaire Belloc, Humorous verse for children, Whirligig
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TCS: This Wonder of an Elephant – Poems for World Elephant 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. __________________________________________ … Continue reading
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Tagged D.H. Lawrence, David Attenborough, Hilaire Belloc, John Godfrey Saxe and Rumi, Sarah Lindsay and Patti Masterson, Susan Kinsolving, TCS - This Wonder of an Elephant, World Elephant Day
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TCS: Fearful Symmetry – Poems for International Tiger 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 … Continue reading
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Tagged Diane Glancy, Fearful Symmetry, Hilaire Belloc, International Tiger Day, John W. Clark, Nael, TCS, William Blake
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ON THIS DAY: July 27, 2019
July 27th is Bagpipe Appreciation Day Barbie-in-a-Blender Day Crème Brulee Day Helen Keller Day Scotch Whisky Day Walk on Stilts Day _______________________________________ MORE! Lucy Salmon, Hilaire Belloc and Marielle Franco, click
Posted in History, Holidays, On This Day
Tagged Frederick Banting, Geoffrey De Havilland, Hilaire Belloc, Lucy Maynard Salmon, Marielle Franco, Myrtle Lawrence, Pina Bausch
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Word Cloud: AUGUST
by NONA BLYTH CLOUD The last day of August, still time to catch some summer sun, and enhale its layers of aroma: sunscreen, watermelon, citronella and charcoal brickettes. So I have three August poems for you from three very different … Continue reading
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Tagged August, Greg Rappleye, Hilaire Belloc, Margaret Atwood
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Word Cloud: ZOO
by NONA BLYTH CLOUD I’m in the mood for a Trip to the Zoo, and I think Hilaire Belloc (1870-1953) will be the perfect guide. His classic books, The Bad Child’s Book of Beasts, and More Beasts for Worse Children, prove his knowledge … Continue reading
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Tagged Basil Temple Blackwood, Cautionary Tales for Children, Hilaire Belloc, More Beasts for Worse Children, The Bad Child's Book of Beasts, ZOO
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ON THIS DAY: July 27, 2018
July 27th is Bagpipe Appreciation Day Barbie-in-a-Blender Day Crème Brulee Day Scotch Whisky Day Walk on Stilts Day _________________________________________ MORE! Alexandre Dumas fils, Irene Fischer and Bugs Bunny, click