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Tag Archives: William Butler Yeats
Two Poems for World Bee Day
We are bees, and our body is a honeycomb.We made the body, cell by cell we made it. – Rumi (1207-1273) Today is World Bee Day. On this day in 1734, Anton Janša was born in Carniola (now part of … Continue reading
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Tagged Anton Janša, Bees, Carol Ann Duffy, Honeybees, Rumi, William Butler Yeats, World Bee Day
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TCS: World Speech Day – Say to the Down-Keepers and the Sun-Slappers
. 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. ______________________________ If you want … Continue reading
TCS: Something Disappearing as We Say Its Name
. 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 Emily Dickinson, Helen Humphreys, Kathleen Norris, Omar Khayyam and Edward FitzGerald, Robert Frost, TCS: Something Disappearing as We Say Its Name, The White House Rose Garden, Thomas Moore, William Butler Yeats
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TCS: Today is My Husband’s Birthday
. . . 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 … Continue reading
TCS: Poems for Read Across America 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
Word Cloud: EARFUL
by NONA BLYTH CLOUD O chestnut-tree, great-rooted blossomer, Are you the leaf, the blossom or the bole? O body swayed to music, O brightening glance, How can we know the dancer from the dance? – “Among School Children” by W. B. … Continue reading
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Tagged Anne Stevenson, Deafness, Durham Cathedral Miners Memorial, Earful, John Constable, T.S. Eliot, William Butler Yeats
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TCS: A Roar of Wings – Poems for National Aviation 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 … Continue reading
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Tagged Denise Duhamel and Bianca Stone, John Gillespie Magee Jr, Kenn Nesbitt, Robert Graves, Robinson Jeffers and Rudyard Kipling, Sara Teasdale, TCS A Roar of Wings Aviation Day, William Butler Yeats
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Word Cloud: PILGRIM-SOUL (Redux)
by NONA BLYTH CLOUD Next Sunday is Bloomsday, the day in 1904 that the events in the James Joyce novel Ulysses take place. I confess I have only read pieces of it, because it’s so densely written, and some of it I … Continue reading
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Tagged Abbey Theatre, Anglo-Irish, Ben Bulben, Easter Rising, John O’Leary, Lady Augusta Gregory, Maud Gonne, William Butler Yeats
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TCS: The Bee-Loud Glade – poems for World Bee 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 Carol Ann Duffy, Emily Dickinson, Mary Oliver, Naomi Shihab Nye, Rumi, TCS, William Butler Yeats, William Shakespeare
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TCS: A Cottage in The Land of Heart’s Desire
. 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 … Continue reading
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Tagged A Cottage in The Land of Heart's Desire, April is National Poetry Month, British Columbia, Cob Cottage, TCS, The Land of Heart's Desire, William Butler Yeats
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