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TCS: Not Burning the Clocks
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
Posted in Poetry, The Coffee Shop
Tagged Brighton-Hove-UK, Burning the Clocks, Graham Carter, Naomi Shihab Nye, Same Sky, TCS: Not Burning the Clocks, Winter Solstice
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Winter Solstice Day 2020
This is a reprise, with some editing, of a story I wrote six years ago about the Winter Solstice. In the northern hemisphere, this is the day with the least amount of sunlight and most hours of darkness. The southern … Continue reading
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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TCS: Burning the Clocks (redux)
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 … Continue reading
Posted in Holidays, Poetry, The Coffee Shop
Tagged Brighton & Hove, Burning the Clocks, Naomi Shihab Nye, Same Sky, TCS, William Blake, Winter Solstice
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BURNING THE CLOCKS (Redux)
Updated – Originally posted December 11, 2017, as part of The Coffee Shop series by Nona Blyth Cloud _____________________________________________ The hours of folly are measured by the clock; but of wisdom, no clock can measure. – William Blake
Posted in Holidays, Poetry, United Kingdom
Tagged Brighton & Hove, Burning the Clocks, Burning the Old Year, Naomi Shihab Nye, Same Sky, William Blake, Winter Solstice
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Word Cloud: WINTERDARK
by NONA BLYTH CLOUD In the Northern Hemisphere, we are just a day past the longest night of the year, and now the sun will linger moments longer each day until the Summer Solstice. The tides of the seasons never … Continue reading
TCS: Winter Holiday Traditions
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 … Continue reading
TCS: Burning the Clocks
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 … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry, The Coffee Shop
Tagged Brighton & Hove, Burning the Clocks, Burning the Old Year, Naomi Shihab Nye, TCS, William Blake, Winter Solstice
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Word Cloud: WINTERTIDE
by NONA BLYTH CLOUD The first day of December – three weeks before the Winter Solstice in the Northern Hemisphere, or the Summer Solstice in the Southern Hemisphere. In many northern places, winter has already arrived: the summer birds left … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry, Word Cloud
Tagged David Malouf, Gail Mazur, Grace Schulman, Roberta Hill Whiteman, William Carlos Williams, Winter, Winter Solstice, Wintertide
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Word Cloud: WINDOWS
by Nona Blyth Cloud Through the small tall bathroom window the December yard is gray and scratchy, the tree calligraphic. ………………………… – Dave Eggers The view from Dave Eggers’ bathroom window is a close match to the view from my kitchen window. … Continue reading
Posted in Emily Dickinson, Holidays, Poetry, Word Cloud
Tagged Joseph Brodksy, Kenn Nesbitt, Nancy McCleery, Robert Louis Stevenson, Windows, Winter Solstice
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