A Dirge Melody: Don’t Let the Humans Know We Contain Souls by Elizabeth Upshur
A Dirge Melody: Don’t Let the Humans Know We Contain Souls by Elizabeth Upshur published in Mistake House (2017) If you want the pearl...
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marychristinedelea
- Sep 24, 2023
- 2 min
Fuzzy Logic: Prompt
Philosophy is a school subject that is relevant in our everyday lives, whether or not we realize it. (They all are, of course, but some...
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marychristinedelea
- Sep 24, 2023
- 2 min
Shirt by Robert Pinsky
Shirt by Robert Pinsky (published in his book, The Want Bone) The back, the yoke, the yardage. Lapped seams, The nearly invisible...
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marychristinedelea
- Sep 20, 2023
- 1 min
My Children Asleep on the Chest of September by Ariana D. Den Bleyker
My Children Asleep on the Chest of September by Ariana D. Den Bleyker (published in The Mantle, Issue 6, November 2018) It’s an alluring...
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marychristinedelea
- Sep 17, 2023
- 1 min
Green Eggs and Ham Writing Prompt
"I would not like them here or there. I would not like them anywhere. I do not like green eggs and ham. I do not like them, Sam-I-Am."...
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marychristinedelea
- Sep 17, 2023
- 1 min
Dearborn North Apartments by Lola Haskins
Dearborn North Apartments Chicago, Illinois by Lola Haskins Rows of rectangles rise, set into brick. And in every rectangle, there is a...
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marychristinedelea
- Sep 13, 2023
- 1 min
In Praise of Gray by Jay Rubin
In Praise of Gray by Jay Rubin (published in The Summerset Review, Summer 2011) Gray hair is a crown of splendor —Proverbs 16:31 O how I...
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marychristinedelea
- Sep 10, 2023
- 2 min
Mad Libs Poem: Prompt
Mad Libs gave me and my brother a lot of silly fun as we sat in the backseat of the blue Plymouth Fury with my parents up front. More...
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marychristinedelea
- Sep 10, 2023
- 1 min
Forgive My Dearth of Quietude by Praise Osawaru
Forgive My Dearth of Quietude by Praise Osawaru (published in Feral, Issue 3, August 2020) Instead of dreaming, I translate my whirling...
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marychristinedelea
- Sep 6, 2023
- 1 min
Purgatory by Carolyn Martin
Purgatory by Carolyn Martin (published in The Opiate, August 2016) can’t be much worse than this: sitting in the second row while the...
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marychristinedelea
- Sep 3, 2023
- 1 min
To, On, For, Regarding: Prompt
Anniversary Alert: Phillis Wheatley's book of poetry, Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral, was published on September 1, 1773....
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marychristinedelea
- Sep 3, 2023
- 1 min
On Virtue by Phillis Wheatley
On Virtue by Phillis Wheatley O thou bright jewel in my aim I strive To comprehend thee. Thine own words declare Wisdom is higher than a...
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