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marychristinedelea
Jun 301 min read
10 Things I Hate about You: Prompt
I love odes, I admit it. Counting my blessings? Sure. I try to find the beauty around me. I write down something I am grateful for every...
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marychristinedelea
Jun 301 min read
To the Pay Toilet by Marge Piercy
To the Pay Toilet by Marge Piercy You strop my anger, especially when I find you in restaurant or bar and pay for the same liquid, coming...
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marychristinedelea
Jun 261 min read
On the Death of Benjamin Franklin by Philip Freneau
On the Death of Benjamin Franklin by Philip Freneau Thus, some tall tree that long hath stood The glory of its native wood, By storms...
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marychristinedelea
Jun 231 min read
Love Song for Love Songs by Rafael Campo
Love Song for Love Songs by Rafael Campo (published on the Academy of American Poets website) A golden age of love songs and we still...
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marychristinedelea
Jun 232 min read
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly: Prompt
This week's prompt has 3 components. I have never seen this Clint Eastwood movie (see the title of this prompt), but the title has such a...
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marychristinedelea
Jun 191 min read
Desirous of Her Liberty at This Time by Rhonda M. Ward
Desirous of Her Liberty at This Time by Rhonda M. Ward (published in Poetry, November 2021, in The Witness Stones Project portfolio)...
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marychristinedelea
Jun 161 min read
Hope by Elsa Gidlow
Hope by Elsa Gidlow (from her 1923 book, On a Golden Thread) You would win me, woo me, win me, To be your lover, Hope! You would lure me,...
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marychristinedelea
Jun 161 min read
There Has to Be a First for Everything: Prompt
Today's poem on my blog, "Hope," was written by Elsa Gidlow and appears in her 1923 book, On a Golden Thread. Here is what the Academy of...
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marychristinedelea
Jun 121 min read
if time is queer/and memory is trans/and my hands hurt in the cold/then by Raquel Salas Rivera
if time is queer/and memory is trans/and my hands hurt in the cold/then by Raquel Salas Rivera (published in their 2021 book, x/ex/exis:...
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marychristinedelea
Jun 91 min read
Elegy for Mr. Spock by W. Todd Kaneko
Elegy for Mr. Spock by W. Todd Kaneko (published in Split Lip Magazine, August 2018) The first time you died, your friends searched the...
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marychristinedelea
Jun 91 min read
None of These Things Are Like the Others (or are they?): Prompt
Today, after visiting two wineries, reading about some returning TV shows, listening to music, re-reading today's blog poem, and my...
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marychristinedelea
Jun 53 min read
Casey at the Bat by Ernest Lawrence Thayer
Casey at the Bat by Ernest Lawrence Thayer (first published on June 3, 1888 in The San Francisco Examiner) The outlook wasn't brilliant...
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marychristinedelea
Jun 22 min read
The Summer of George: Prompt
Thanks to the New York Times, I just went down a rabbit hole of summer themes. (See the article that started this here--it's gifted, so...
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marychristinedelea
Jun 22 min read
Night Baseball by Michael Blumenthal
Night Baseball by Michael Blumenthal (and printed here, as well as in his book Days We Would Rather Know) [I] retrace by moonlight the...
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