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What I Wanted by Margaret Chula
published in Cordella Magazine, Issue 7 What I Wanted by Margaret Chula All my life, I wanted to ride bareback on a tiger through the...
marychristinedelea
Aug 31, 20221 min read
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A Horse, Of Course: Poetry Prompt
Good morning! Although only 14% of Americans live in rural areas, most of us are not far from horses. Horse-drawn carriages, police...
marychristinedelea
Aug 28, 20221 min read
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Love Letter to a Dead Body by Jake Skeets
Love Letter to a Dead Body by Jake Skeets published in Boston Review, 2018 we lay each other down in the burr and sage bottles jangle us...
marychristinedelea
Aug 28, 20221 min read
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Forget-Me-Nots by Megan Merchant
Forget-Me-Nots by Megan Merchant published in Breakwater, Issue 23 Today, my mother forgot the word for bathroom while she was in one....
marychristinedelea
Aug 24, 20221 min read
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Marry You?!? Poetry Prompt
Check out today's poem from Jellyfish Magazine: "Marry Me" by Lindsey Webb. Now write a poem in which the speaker tells someone why they...
marychristinedelea
Aug 21, 20221 min read
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Marry Me by Lindsey Webb
Marry Me by Lindsey Webb; published in Jellyfish Magazine, 2015 I am like a flower that won't stop opening and closing. I scare all the...
marychristinedelea
Aug 21, 20221 min read
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The Sciences Sing a Lullabye by Albert Goldbarth
The Sciences Sing a Lullabye by Albert Goldbarth published in his book, The Kitchen Sink: New and Selected Poems, 1972-2007 Physics...
marychristinedelea
Aug 17, 20221 min read
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California Gestalt by Jessica Yuan
California Gestalt by Jessica Yuan published in New Delta Review, Issue 11.2 How small the rains that feed that city, that settle its...
marychristinedelea
Aug 14, 20221 min read
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The Irregulars: Poetry Prompt
Irregular verbs are the bane of foreign language students, no matter what language you are trying to learn. I have had students from all...
marychristinedelea
Aug 14, 20221 min read
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Freeway 280 by Lorna Dee Cervantes
Freeway 280 by Lorna Dee Cervantes Las casitas near the gray cannery, nestled amid wild abrazos of climbing roses and man-high red...
marychristinedelea
Aug 10, 20221 min read
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Rhyme (Internal) Time: Poetry Prompt
Today's blog poem by Amy Lowell, "A Little Song," uses end rhyme. When Lowell was writing, end rhyme was the norm. However, this was...
marychristinedelea
Aug 7, 20221 min read
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A Little Song by Amy Lowell
A Little Song by Amy Lowell When you, my Dear, are away, away, How wearily goes the creeping day. A year drags after morning, and night...
marychristinedelea
Aug 7, 20221 min read
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Tiny Ghost Bundle by Bridget Clawson
Tiny Ghost Bundle by Bridget Clawson published in Hobo Camp Review, Winter Issue # 33 -- Featuring a poetry tribute to Tom Petty Do you...
marychristinedelea
Aug 3, 20221 min read
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