Instructions for Not Giving Up by Ada Limón
Instructions on Not Giving Up by Ada Limón (and can be found here as well as on my refrigerator) More than the fuchsia funnels breaking...
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marychristinedelea
May 262 min read
Hope, Wisdom, Trust, Valor: Prompt
Yesterday, my husband and I finally visited a place we have been meaning to go to since we moved to this area--Schreiner's Iris Gardens....
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marychristinedelea
May 261 min read
Daily Courage Doesn't Count by Alta
Daily Courage Doesn't Count by Alta (published in A Geography of Poets, edited by Edward Field, 1979) daily courage doesn't count we...
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marychristinedelea
May 221 min read
Not Waving But Drowning by Stevie Smith
Not Waving But Drowning by Stevie Smith Nobody heard him, the dead man, But still he lay moaning: I was much further out than you thought...
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marychristinedelea
May 191 min read
Jubilate Agno: Prompt
A few choices today for your prompt, and all are based on the poem on my blog today, "For I will consider my Cat Jeoffry" (from Jubilate...
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marychristinedelea
May 194 min read
For I will consider my Cat Jeoffrey by Christopher Smart
from Jubilate Agno by Christopher Smart For I will consider my Cat Jeoffry. For he is the servant of the Living God duly and daily...
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marychristinedelea
May 151 min read
Death Is Nothing At All by Henry Scott Holland
Death Is Nothing At All by Henry Scott Holland Death is nothing at all. It does not count. I have only slipped away into the next room....
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marychristinedelea
May 121 min read
Henry Hudson Looks at the Hudson by David Shapiro
Henry Hudson Looks at the Hudson by David Shapiro (published in Jacket Magazine, August, 2003) Henry Hudson turned to me and said: Be...
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marychristinedelea
May 122 min read
Where Were You in 1968?: Creative Prompt
If you were the poet David Shapiro, there was one day in which you posed for a photo that became symbolic and iconic and historic. The...
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marychristinedelea
May 81 min read
What Do I Care for Morning by Helene Johnson
What Do I Care for Morning by Helene Johnson What do I care for morning, For a shivering aspen tree, For sun flowers and sumac Opening...
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marychristinedelea
May 51 min read
The Peace of Wild Things by Wendell Berry
The Peace of Wild Things by Wendell Berry (published in The Peace of Wild Things by Wendell Berry, Penguin, 2018) When despair for the...
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marychristinedelea
May 51 min read
Cinco de Mayo!: Creative Prompt
I think Cinco de Mayo is a lot like Saint Patrick's Day: it's bigger in American than it is in its origin country; people of all...
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marychristinedelea
May 11 min read
After I Came Back from Iceland by Sheenagh Pugh
After I Came Back from Iceland by Sheenagh Pugh published in Poetry For the Earth, edited by Sara Dunn with Alan Scholefield, Fawcett...
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