Tag Archives: Poetry

TCS: In My Invincible Summer

Posted on July 1, 2024 by wordcloud9

     Good Morning!  _______________________________ “Every beginningis only a sequel, after all, and the book of eventsis always open halfway through.” ― from “Nothing Twice”by Wislawa Szymborska ________________ “… what had we tried to do? Defiantly tell the truth. For … Continue reading →

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TCS: How I Became a Woman – Poems for Women’s History Month

Posted on March 11, 2024 by wordcloud9

    Good Morning! ______________________________ “… this bullet had no innocence, did not wish anyone well, you can’t tell us otherwise by naming it mildly, this bullet was never the friend of life, should not be granted immunity by soft saying … Continue reading →

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TCS: Sounds We Cannot Hear But Understand in Motion

Posted on March 4, 2024 by wordcloud9

Good Morning! ______________________________ “Banning things gives them more power and mystique than they had previously. Tell someone they can’t see something, and you can be sure as soon as you do they will be far more motivated to seek it … Continue reading →

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TCS: When the Wolves Come

Posted on November 20, 2023 by wordcloud9

     Good Morning! ______________________________ We must endure our thoughts all night, until the bright obvious stands motionless in the cold … – Wallace Stevens, Pulitzer Prize- winning poet ________________ If we but give it time, a work of art … Continue reading →

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TCS: May No Fascist Ever Drag You into Forever Fear

Posted on October 16, 2023 by wordcloud9

Good Morning! ______________________________ How long shall bomb and bullets think for human brains? ─  Katharine Lee Bates, from “How Long” ________________ We all declare for liberty, but  in using the same word we do not all mean the same thing. … Continue reading →

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TCS: When You’re Looking for What’s Lost, Everything’s a Sign

Posted on September 18, 2023 by wordcloud9

 Good Morning! ______________________________ “It is difficult to get the news from poems yet men die miserably every day for lack of what is found there.” ― William Carlos Williams _______________ “Not even waste is inviolate. The day misspent, the love misplaced, … Continue reading →

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For Poetry Friday: A prayer for a correctional officer.

Posted on March 13, 2015 by Chuck Stanley

by Chuck Stanley When the CelticLassie read on Daily Kos that former correctional officer ruleoflaw is critically ill, she wanted to send him a message. His story appeared in a diary by SaraR, who is making him a community quilt. … Continue reading →

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Hunger of Memory: “Starvation Camp Near Jaslo”–A Poem by Wislawa Szymborska

Posted on December 14, 2014 by Elaine Magliaro

By Elaine Magliaro Stanley Kunitz, the tenth Poet Laureate of the United States, once said, “Memory is everybody’s poet-in-residence.” Wislawa Szymborska, a Nobel Prize-winning poet from Poland, was born in 1923. Jaroslav Anders (Los Angeles Times) said that during her young adulthood, … Continue reading →

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Dirty Dog!: A Triolet for Poetry Friday

Posted on November 28, 2014 by Elaine Magliaro

By Elaine Magliaro I love it when life hands me a real situation that serves as inspiration for writing a poem. A few years ago my daughter’s  Yellow Lab Jack was taken to a special park where dogs are allowed to run around unleashed. … Continue reading →

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POETRY FRIDAY: John Clare’s “Autumn” Read by Richard Burton

Posted on November 21, 2014 by Elaine Magliaro

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