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TCS: A Word After a Word After a Word is Power
Good Morning! ______________________________ “You can find poetry in your everyday life, your memory, in what people say on the bus, in the news, or just what’s in your heart.” ─ Carol Ann Duffy, Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom … Continue reading
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TCS: No Question Is Ever Settled Until It is Settled Right
Good Morning! ______________________________ “Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world. ” ─ Percy Bysshe Shelley ________________ I believe that all politicians are unprincipled crooks and I still believe that they are better than the alternative … I believe that … Continue reading
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TCS: Dark Mornings Show Thy Mask
Good Morning! ______________________________ “Have you come to sing pumpkin carols?” ─ Linus, It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown ________________ “Each person who ever was or is or will be has a song. It isn’t a song that anybody else wrote. It … Continue reading
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TCS: I Will Not Dance to Your Drummed Up War
Good Morning! ______________________________ Poets aren’t very useful. Because they aren’t consumeful or very produceful. ─ Ogden Nash ________________ Poetry is what in a poem makes you laugh, cry, prickle, be silent, makes your toe nails twinkle, makes you want to do … Continue reading
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TCS: May No Fascist Ever Drag You into Forever Fear
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: A Working Class Hero Is Something To Be
Good Morning! For bonus points, can you name the working-class hero pictured above? ______________________________ In a war situation or where violence and injustice are prevalent, poetry is called upon to be something more than a thing of beauty. ─ … Continue reading
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TCS: How Many Times Do I Have to Say It
Good Morning! ______________________________ You don’t have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone. – John Ciardi _______________ Must I always sing at the gate to hearten the men who fight For causes changeful as wind … Continue reading
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TCS: When You’re Looking for What’s Lost, Everything’s a Sign
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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TCS: But We Shall Ride the Lightning
Good Morning! ______________________________ “This is the first, the wildest and the wisest thing I know: that the soul exists and is built entirely out of attentiveness.” ― Mary Oliver_______________ “Stand like a beaten anvil. Let earth’s wrongBeat on that iron and … Continue reading
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