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marychristinedelea
Sep 221 min read
How to Open Doors: Prompt
I have had 16 cats throughout my life. Their back stories have been as different as their personalities. They were/are, of course, all...
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marychristinedelea
Sep 222 min read
Ellis Island by Joseph Bruchac
Ellis Island by Joseph Bruchac (published in his 1978 book, Entering Onondaga, Cold Mountain Press) Beyond the red brick of Ellis...
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marychristinedelea
Sep 183 min read
Meteor, April 2020 by Amy Miller
Meteor, April 2020 by Amy Miller (published in Sweet Lit, 2020 ) In the year of our plague, we saw a light. Like a plane on fire,...
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marychristinedelea
Sep 151 min read
See You in September: Prompt
"See You in September" by The Happenings is just one of the many great songs written about September. See also: September by The Shins...
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marychristinedelea
Sep 152 min read
Season’s End by Audrey Colasanti
Season’s End by Audrey Colasanti (published in Humana Obscura , Fall/Winter 2021 ) All around, the grasses sway copper and flax, warm...
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marychristinedelea
Sep 112 min read
Portrait of a Figure Near Water by Jane Kenyon
Portrait of a Figure Near Water by Jane Kenyon (published in her Collected Poems , Graywolf Press, 2005) Rebuked, she turned and ran...
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marychristinedelea
Sep 81 min read
A Family Affair: Prompt
Be inspired by Ruth Stone’s poem, posted on my blog today. Her portrait of Aunt Maud is detailed, fresh, and thorough. One of the major...
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marychristinedelea
Sep 83 min read
How Aunt Maud Took to Being a Woman by Ruth Stone
How Aunt Maud Took to Being a Woman by Ruth Stone (published in Persimmon Tree and elsewhere) A long hill sloped down to Aunt Maud’s...
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marychristinedelea
Sep 42 min read
Summer by César Vallejo
Summer by César Vallejo translated from the Spanish by Yvette Siegert Summer, I am leaving. And how they pain me, These meek hands of...
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marychristinedelea
Sep 11 min read
The Sound of Silence: Prompt
Today's poem on this very blog features some silence, as well as cows and birds making some noise. And although the speaker is out...
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marychristinedelea
Sep 12 min read
August 12 in the Nebraska Sand Hills Watching the Perseids Meteor Shower by Twyla Hansen
August 12 in the Nebraska Sand Hills Watching the Perseids Meteor Shower by Twyla Hansen (published in her 2011 book, Dirt Songs: A...
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marychristinedelea
Aug 283 min read
Curriculum Vitae by Lisel Mueller
Curriculum Vitae by Lisel Mueller (published in her 1996 book, Alive Together: New and Selected Poems, from Louisiana State...
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marychristinedelea
Aug 251 min read
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 252 min read
In Montana: Exotic by Gwendolen Haste
In Montana: Exotic by Gwendolen Haste (published in Poetry , January 1924 ) Her frightened soul shrank When she saw The bitter...
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marychristinedelea
Aug 212 min read
When I Think of the Immortal Jellyfish by Christen Noel Kauffman
When I Think of the Immortal Jellyfish by Christen Noel Kauffman (published in Whale Road Review , 2016, Issue 16) I think of the way...
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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 182 min read
(A terrible kaleidoscope) by Lina Kostenko, translated by Uilleam Blacker
(A terrible kaleidoscope) by Lina Kostenko, translated by Uilleam Blacker (published in published in Words Without Borders , April...
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marychristinedelea
Aug 143 min read
Gay Marriage Poem by Jenny Johnson
Gay Marriage Poem by Jenny Johnson (published in her 2017 book, In Full Velvet , Sarabande Books) We could promise to elope like my...
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marychristinedelea
Aug 112 min read
Happy Foot Sad Foot by Ruth Madievsky
Happy Foot Sad Foot by Ruth Madievsky (published in Bat City Review , Issue 16 ) This world is equally home to sleeping dogs and...
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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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