Tag Archives: Poets born in August

TCS: In the City Where Money Was All

Posted on August 26, 2024 by wordcloud9

Good Morning! _______________________________ “Fascism is capitalism plus murder. – Upton Sinclair, author of The Jungle, an exposé of the U.S. meatpacking industry and wage slavery ________________ “Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the … Continue reading →

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TCS: The Heat Is Too Intense For It

Posted on August 19, 2024 by wordcloud9

    Good Morning!  _______________________________ “Poetry is a sort of homecoming.” – Paul Celan, Romanian-born French poet, and holocaust survivor ________________ “What matters most is how well you walk through the fire.” – Charles Bukowski, German-born American poet ________________ “August is … Continue reading →

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TCS: To Cherish In Their Souls A Reverence For Truth

Posted on August 12, 2024 by wordcloud9

   Good Morning! _______________________________ “The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.”― W. Somerset Maugham ________________ “Ships at a distance have every man’s wish on board.”― Zora Neale Hurston, opening line of Their … Continue reading →

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TCS: We Should Be Careful of Each Other … While There Is Still Time

Posted on August 5, 2024 by wordcloud9

    Good Morning!  _______________________________ “It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment.”  ― Ansel Adams ________________ “Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home – so … Continue reading →

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TCS: The Music Will Make Your Hips Laugh

Posted on August 21, 2023 by wordcloud9

Good Morning! ______________________________ “Do you think that anger is a sincere emotionor just the timid motion of a fragile heart trying to beat away its pain?”– Andrea Gibson________________ The only thing that can save the world is the reclaiming of … Continue reading →

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TCS: What’s Good for the Soul

Posted on August 14, 2023 by wordcloud9

   Good Morning! ______________________________ “What matters most is how well you walk through the fire.” – Charles Bukowski _____________ “You are the lens of the world through which the world may become aware of itself. The world, on the other … Continue reading →

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TCS: Voices That Sound Like Apple Trees and Grape Vines

Posted on August 7, 2023 by wordcloud9

Good Morning! ______________________________ “August is the month of the high-sailing hawks …” — John Burroughs, American Naturalist________________ “When I began to listen to poetry, it’swhen I began to listen to the stones, and I began to listen to what the … Continue reading →

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TCS: We Should Be Kind While There Is Still Time

Posted on August 8, 2022 by wordcloud9

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. ______________________________ “The children start … Continue reading →

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