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TCS: Will You, Won’t You, Will You, Won’t You Join the Dance?
Good Morning! ______________________________ There are many things you can lie your way through; poetry is not one of them. — Nicole Lyons, author of HUSH ________________ Everything that needs to be said has already been said. But, since no … Continue reading
TCS: The Tenderness Has Run Out. Everything Falters.
Good Morning! ______________________________ “Nobody has ever measured, even poets, how much a heart can hold.” — Zelda Fitzgerald ________________ “Read poems to yourself in the middle of the night. Turn on a single lamp and read them while you’re … Continue reading
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TCS: The Terror of the Truth of Things
Good Morning! ______________________________ “It’s no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense.”— Mark Twain ________________ “Seldom, very seldom, does completetruth belong to any human disclosure;seldom can it happen that something isnot a little disguised … Continue reading
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TCS: The Phœnix Liberty, Bright As the Sun and Unabashed
Good Morning! ______________________________ “I drop the dying year behind me like a shawl and let it fall.” — Carol Ann Duffy ________________ New Year’s Resolution: To tolerate fools more gladly, provided this does not encourage them to take up … Continue reading
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TCS: The Road of Change Is Before You Always
Good Morning! ______________________________ “Winter is a season of recovery and preparation.” — Paul Theroux ________________ Another Kind of Christmas by Nona Blyth Cloud A bright parched sky over cold cracked earth Our north wind stole the last tear from air’s … Continue reading
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TCS: The Joy That You Give to Others
Good Morning! ______________________________ “… astonish a mean world with your acts of kindness.” ― Maya Angelou ________________ What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness? – Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Swiss-born philosopher and political theorist
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Tagged Poets born in December, TCS, The Joy That You Give to Others
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TCS: The Songs That Tell Our Inmost Hopes
Good Morning! ______________________________ “Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.” ― William Wordsworth ________________ “Poetry is boned with ideas, nerved and blooded with emotions, all held together by the delicate, tough skin of words.” ― Paul Engle, … Continue reading
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TCS: It Has an Inner Light … and Changes Us
Good Morning! ______________________________ “There is a crack in everything, that’s how the light gets in.” ― Leonard Cohen ________________ “It is the responsibility, yet the individual choice, of each of us to use the light we have to dispel … Continue reading
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TCS: Are You a Visitor?
Good Morning! ______________________________ You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough. ― William Blake ________________ “A poem once read is the first note of a symphony, a toe dipped in the water, … Continue reading
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TCS: When the Wolves Come
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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