Thanks by W.S. Merwin
Thanks by W.S. Merwin published in Migration: New and Selected Poems (Copper Canyon Press, 2005) Listen with the night falling we are...
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marychristinedelea
Nov 26, 20232 min read
Almost heaven, West Virginia: Prompt
Your prompt for this week popped into my head as I looked for a poem to post today from Robert Wood Lynn's incredible collection, Mothman...
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marychristinedelea
Nov 26, 20231 min read
(The Mothman Leaves the Used Car Lot Empty-Handed) by Robert Wood Lynn
(The Mothman Leaves the Used Car Lot Empty-Handed) by Robert Wood Lynn published in his book, Mothman Apologia, from Yale University...
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marychristinedelea
Nov 22, 20231 min read
Thanksgiving by Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Thanksgiving by Ella Wheeler Wilcox We walk on starry fields of white And do not see the daisies; For blessings common in our sight We...
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marychristinedelea
Nov 19, 20231 min read
Love in a Time of Climate Change by Craig Santos Perez
Love in a Time of Climate Change by Craig Santos Perez (published in his book, Habitat Threshold, 2020, Omnidawn) recycling Pablo...
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marychristinedelea
Nov 19, 20232 min read
My Love Is Like a Red, Red Sky (From Pollution): Prompt
Craig Santos Perez is one of the best poets writing environmentally-aware poetry these days. His poem posted on my blog today, "Love in a...
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marychristinedelea
Nov 15, 20231 min read
Butsuma by Bern Mulvey
Butsuma by Bern Mulvey (published in his 2008 book, The Fat Sheep Everyone Wants, CSU Press) Time to meet the relatives, only they’re...
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marychristinedelea
Nov 12, 20231 min read
Let's Keep Things Light: Creative Prompt
The last poems posted on my blog, prior to today's post, are all serious and intense and powerful. Each one tells a bit of a woman's...
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marychristinedelea
Nov 12, 20231 min read
A Drink with Something In It by Ogden Nash
A Drink with Something In It by Ogden Nash There is something about a Martini, A tingle remarkably pleasant; A yellow, a mellow Martini;...
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marychristinedelea
Nov 8, 20231 min read
Enough by Suzanne Buffam
Enough by Suzanne Buffam (from her 2010 book, The Irrationalist, published by Canarium Book) I am wearing dark glasses inside the house...
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marychristinedelea
Nov 5, 20232 min read
Obey the Aubade: Creative Prompt
I have been very interested in aubades lately--both reading and writing them. I think what is drawing me to them is all of the...
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marychristinedelea
Nov 5, 20231 min read
Aubade with Ravens by Jessica Lynn Suchon
Aubade with Ravens by Jessica Lynn Suchon (published in Pinch, Fall 2019) When you sleep, the moon plucks hurt from my palm like a loose...
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marychristinedelea
Nov 1, 20231 min read
Across Wyoming by Kari Despain
Across Wyoming by Kari Despain (published in Rockvale Review, November 2019) driving for dawn, a wind storm shaking the November...
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