Awkward Much?: Prompt
You should really read today's poem on this blog, in which the speaker is waaaaaay beyond feeling awkward--she feels as if her soul has...
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marychristinedelea
Aug 181 min read
Phoenix Rising: Prompt
Today's poem on my blog starts with destruction but ends in a very different place. From today's creative endeavor, start your...
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marychristinedelea
Aug 111 min read
Death Be Not: Prompt
Today I was in a group of 5 and the subject of what we believe happens after we die. (Other topics of conversation included pistachio ice...
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marychristinedelea
Aug 44 min read
You Can Quote Me on This: Prompt
I have collected quotations since I can remember. I have them in wonderful books, some with specific quotes (women, writers, women...
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marychristinedelea
Jul 281 min read
Metaphor? I'd Never Even SEEN Her Afore!: Prompt
Many of the poems I have posted on my blog use metaphor (as do many poems in general). Today's poem makes the noon heat a mystic dog....
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marychristinedelea
Jul 211 min read
Pen Pals: Prompt
There is something magical about getting an actual card or letter in the mail; it was wonderful when that was the only way to get mail,...
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marychristinedelea
Jul 141 min read
Crossing a Little Star: Prompt
In today's beautiful poem posted on this blog, "Little Star: Week 8," the speaker--a father-to-be--addresses his child-to-be. In his very...
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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 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 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 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 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
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 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 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 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
Apr 281 min read
At the Movies: Creative Prompt
Do you remember the first movie you saw in a theater? The first movie date you had? How about the first DVD movie you bought? The movie...
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marychristinedelea
Apr 212 min read
A Friend in Need: Creative Prompt
Although most people know it as "Dogs Playing Poker," Cassius Marcellus Coolidge's 1903 painting is actually called A Friend in Need. It...
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marychristinedelea
Apr 142 min read
YA: Prompt
What are your favorite YA books from when you were young? Nancy Drew? Darius the Great Is Not Okay? The Poet X? Anne of Green Gables?...
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marychristinedelea
Apr 73 min read
Path of Totality: Prompt
First, please read Niina Pollari's stunning poem that is posted on my blog today. Then go buy her book. Then come back here and do this...
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