Tag Archives: William Butler Yeats

TCS: Poems for Read Across America Day

Posted on March 2, 2020 by

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Word Cloud: EARFUL

Posted on January 3, 2020 by

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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TCS: A Roar of Wings – Poems for National Aviation Day

Posted on August 19, 2019 by

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Word Cloud: PILGRIM-SOUL (Redux)

Posted on June 14, 2019 by

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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TCS: The Bee-Loud Glade – poems for World Bee Day

Posted on May 20, 2019 by

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TCS: A Cottage in The Land of Heart’s Desire

Posted on April 1, 2019 by

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Word Cloud: BEGINNINGS (Redux)

Posted on January 18, 2019 by

Originally posted on January 15, 2016 – Revised and expanded by NONA BLYTH CLOUD For there’s more enterprise In walking naked     – William Butler Yeats, “A Coat” ________________________________________________ from A Cloak by Denise Levertov  And I walked naked from the … Continue reading →

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Word Cloud: CAILLE (‘Veil’ revisted)

Posted on October 5, 2018 by

by NONA BLYTH CLOUD This is a re-post of a Word Cloud from 2016, because it’s October, the month for otherworldly poetry, and things that go bump in the night.    In Celtic mythology, the Hag is called the Cailleach, the ‘veiled one’ … Continue reading →

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Word Cloud: PILGRIM-SOUL

Posted on June 16, 2017 by

by NONA BLYTH CLOUD Today 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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Word Cloud: COOLE

Posted on March 17, 2017 by

by NONA BLYTH CLOUD Today is Saint Patrick’s Day, and it’s the middle of Women’s History Month, so my choice for this week’s poet was easy: Isabella Augusta, Lady Gregory (1852 – 1932). She was even born on March 15, just … Continue reading →

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