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Tag Archives: William Shakespeare
TCS: A Wild Thing Lurking There
. .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
Posted in Poetry, Word Cloud
Tagged A Wild Thing Lurking There, Bette Davis, Billy Collins, Judy Ball, Julia Spicher Kasdorf, Lu Yu, TCS, William Shakespeare
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Word Cloud: WINTERDARK II
Updated – originally posted in 2017 by NONA BLYTH CLOUD In the Northern Hemisphere, we are just a day away from the longest night of the year, and then the sun will linger moments longer each day until the Summer … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry, Word Cloud
Tagged Emma Lazarus, Esther Louise Ruble, Marjorie Meeker, Sandra M. Castillo, Susan Cooper, William Shakespeare, Winter Solstice, Winterdark
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Word Cloud: DARKNESS
by NONA BLYTH CLOUD The pages of our calendars are flying off like autumn leaves. To the delight of children, we are nearing that annual candy-scavenge in America: Halloween. Our celebrations of the eerie and macabre are pretty bland compared to … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry, Word Cloud
Tagged Edna St. Vincent Millay, Emily Dickinson, Hughes Mearns, Maurice Kilwein Guevara, Robert Frost, Walter del al Mare, William Shakespeare, Yusef Komunyakaa
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TCS: Poems for You Matter to Me 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 … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry, The Coffee Shop
Tagged Ella Wheeler Wilcox, Elliot Figman, Jack Prelutsky, Judith Viorst, Lloyd Schwartz, Naomi Shihab Nye, Richard Brautigan, Rupi Kaur, William Shakespeare
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First Heard: ‘Water Music’
Updated – Originally posted on July 17, 2016 ________________________________________ I don’t envy Royalty very often – I’ve never had a lust for power, and most of the job just looks tedious and stuffy to me. But I would love to be able … Continue reading
TCS: Poems for National Repeat 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 Edmond Rostand, Maya Angelou, National Repeat Day, Plato, Refrain, TCS, William Shakespeare
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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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Word Cloud: EVER-AFTER (Redux)
by NONA BLYTH CLOUD Next week I’ll be back, hard at work, but my husband and I are on Part 36 of our Never-Ending Honeymoon for a few more days. I leave for you two poems. I wrote the first … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry, Word Cloud
Tagged Love Poetry, Patrick Stewart, Red Silk, Sonnet 116, True Love, Wedding Anniversary, William Shakespeare
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ON THIS DAY: April 26, 2019
April 26th is National Audubon Day * Kids and Pets Day Lesbian Visibility Day National Pretzel Day Richter Scale Day * World Intellectual Property Day * _________________________________________ MORE! Natalie Curtis, Charles Richter and Marilyn Nelson, click
Posted in History, Holidays, On This Day
Tagged Charles F. Richter, Jadwiga Staniszkis, Joan Chen, John James Audubon, Marilyn Nelson, Natalie Curtis, William Shakespeare
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ON THIS DAY: April 23, 2019
April 23rd is UN English Language Day * Lost Dog Awareness Day * Talk Like Shakespeare Day * World Book and Copyright Day * Impossible Astronaut Day (Dr. Who) * ____________________________________ MORE! William Shakespeare, Unity Dow and John Oliver, click
Posted in History, Holidays, On This Day
Tagged Edwin Markham, J.M.W. Turner, John Oliver, Ngaio Marsh, Pandita Ramabai Sarasvati, Unity Dow, William Shakespeare
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