Theme in Color: Poetry Prompt
Super simple instructions for your prompt this week! Choose a holiday or a season. Write about that time period with a focus on the...
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marychristinedelea
Oct 30, 20221 min read
Theme in Yellow by Carl Sandburg
Theme in Yellow by Carl Sandburg I spot the hills With yellow balls in autumn. I light the prairie cornfields Orange and tawny gold...
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marychristinedelea
Oct 26, 20221 min read
The Survivor by Primo Levi
The Survivor by Primo Levi Once more he sees his companions' faces Livid in the first faint light, Gray with cement dust, Nebulous in the...
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marychristinedelea
Oct 23, 20221 min read
Weighty Ghosts: Poetry Prompt
You need to do two things before you start this prompt: 1. Read today's blog poem, "What Haunts Us" by Annie Phan 2. Listen to a song...
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marychristinedelea
Oct 23, 20221 min read
What Haunts Us by Annie Phan
What Haunts Us by Annie Phan published in Rust & Moth, Autumn 2020 In the villages of my grandmother, they warn you of the child who...
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marychristinedelea
Oct 19, 20221 min read
Plums by Gillian Clarke
Plums by Gillian Clarke When their time comes they fall without wind, without rain. They seep through the trees’ muslin in a slow...
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marychristinedelea
Oct 16, 20221 min read
To the Young Who Want to Die by Gwendolyn Brooks
To the Young Who Want to Die by Gwendolyn Brooks Sit down. Inhale. Exhale. The gun will wait. The lake will wait. The tall gall in the...
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marychristinedelea
Oct 16, 20222 min read
You are Spring: Poetry Prompt
This week's writing prompt takes its own inspiration from Gwendolyn Brooks and her poem (also posted on this blog today), "To the Young...
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marychristinedelea
Oct 12, 20221 min read
About Almonds and Ambergris by Lorna Goodison
About Almonds and Ambergris by Lorna Goodison Atlanta Review, Spring/Summer 2019 issue There is a perfume rising off the sea today. A...
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marychristinedelea
Oct 9, 20221 min read
You're Such a Softie: Poetry Prompt
Think of, or--better yet--get ahold of something very soft. It could be a blanket, moss, your own hair, a feather, a cashmere scarf,...
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marychristinedelea
Oct 9, 20221 min read
Residual Memory of Mercy by Nicole Rollender
Residual Memory of Mercy by Nicole Rollender published in typishly Everything is the hopesprung phantom of something else. I married that...
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marychristinedelea
Oct 5, 20221 min read
Rural Gothic by Despy Boutris
Rural Gothic by Despy Boutris published in Zócalo Public Square, April 16, 2021 Loneliness thick as the fields of wheat. Wheat I walk...
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marychristinedelea
Oct 2, 20221 min read
Go Negative: Poetry Prompt
For this week's prompt, I'd like you to write a negative poem. I am not talking about the speaker's attitude, necessarily: the tone,...
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marychristinedelea
Oct 2, 20221 min read
On the Turning of the Year by Karen An-Hwei Lee
On the Turning of the Year by Karen An-Hwei Lee published in Spoon River Poetry Review, Issue 43.2, Winter 2018 To witness five...
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