Greta by Marjorie Power
Greta by Marjorie Power —after hearing Greta Thunberg’s speech at the U.N., 9/23/19 She’s a lungful of cold clean air in a foul-smelling...
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marychristinedelea
- 7 days ago
- 2 min
True Love: Writing Prompt
This week's writing prompt is in two stages, and you need to promise (promise!) that you will complete Part I before looking ahead to...
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marychristinedelea
- 7 days ago
- 1 min
True Love by Robert Penn Warren
True Love by Robert Penn Warren In silence the heart raves.It utters words Meaningless, that never had A meaning. I was ten, skinny,...
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marychristinedelea
- Mar 15
- 1 min
Quarantine by Eavan Boland
Quarantine by Eavan Boland published in her 2001 book, Code In the worst hour of the worst season of the worst year of a whole people a...
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marychristinedelea
- Mar 12
- 1 min
Imagine YOUR Neighbor: Writing Prompt
I don't always pull my prompts from the poem I posted, but when I do, it is a fairly blatant prompt. For this week's writing, imagine...
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marychristinedelea
- Mar 12
- 1 min
Imagining My Neighbor by Loretta Diane Walker
Imagining My Neighbor by Loretta Diane Walker published on Poem-a-Day, April 08, 2022, by the Academy of American Poets Now that night...
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marychristinedelea
- Mar 8
- 1 min
Sonnet to the Fifty-One Senators Who Voted Against the Women’s Health Protection Act by Joanne Durha
Sonnet to the Fifty-One Senators Who Voted Against the Women’s Health Protection Act by Joanne Durham published in Plum Tree Tavern,...
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marychristinedelea
- Mar 5
- 2 min
The Ghazal: Writing Prompt
If you are using this week's prompt to write a prose piece (or create visual art) or form poetry does not excite you at this point in...
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marychristinedelea
- Mar 5
- 1 min
Even the Rain by Agha Shahid Ali
Even the Rain by Agha Shahid Ali from his book Call Me Ishmael Tonight (Norton, 2003) What will suffice for a true-love knot? Even the...
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marychristinedelea
- Mar 1
- 1 min
What I Learned by R. Erica Doyle
What I learned by R. Erica Doyle published in The Rumpus, April 22, 2022 Why was there even An axe in the house there were thorns to...
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marychristinedelea
- Feb 26
- 1 min
It's a Word Buffet: Writing Prompt
I love buffets! I can try lots of different foods in small amounts. I don't have to decide between a garden salad and a Caesar salad--I...
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marychristinedelea
- Feb 26
- 1 min
Silver Falls by Melody Wilson
Silver Falls by Melody Wilson published in Cleaver Magazine, 2021 We have driven east this bright afternoon, the two of us, young parents...
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marychristinedelea
- Feb 22
- 2 min
So Chinese Girl by Dorothy Chan
So Chinese Girl by Dorothy Chan published in The Cincinnati Review, 2018 Anyone who makes tasty food has to be a good person, because...
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marychristinedelea
- Feb 19
- 1 min
What I Mean When I Say Truck Driver by Geffrey Davis
What I Mean When I Say Truck Driver by Geffrey Davis published in Revising the Storm (2014, BOA Editions) During the last 50 miles back...
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marychristinedelea
- Feb 19
- 1 min
Family Lore: Writing Prompt
Today's prompt was inspired by a poem I wrote recently. My father and I were driving together (no worries--I was the one driving!) and he...
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marychristinedelea
- Feb 18
- 1 min
February by Bill Christophersen
February by Bill Christophersen published in Poetry, February 2002 The cold grows colder, even as the days grow longer, February's...
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marychristinedelea
- Feb 12
- 1 min
Ode to Odes: Writing Prompt
I love odes, as you can tell by the number of odes I have posted on this blog. I especially love odes like the one by Kevin Young that I...
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marychristinedelea
- Feb 12
- 1 min
Ode to the Midwest by Kevin Young
Ode to the Midwest by Kevin Young published in Poetry, July/August 2007 The country I come from Is called the Midwest —Bob Dylan I...
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marychristinedelea
- Feb 8
- 1 min
History Lesson by Natasha Tretheway
History Lesson by Natasha Tretheway published in Domestic Work (2000, Graywolf Press) I am four in this photograph, standing on a wide...
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marychristinedelea
- Feb 5
- 1 min
How It Happened by Chelsea Rathburn
How It Happened by Chelsea Rathburn published in New Ohio Review, 2011, republished at Verse Daily I blame that little village in Spain,...
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