Prompt: Like Santa's List, But Different
This week's prompt is easy for any writer or artist: you are asked to make a list. For poets, this means a List Poem. History is full of...
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marychristinedelea
- Nov 26
- 2 min
Almost heaven, West Virginia: Prompt
Your prompt for this week popped into my head as I looked for a poem to post today from Robert Wood Lynn's incredible collection, Mothman...
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marychristinedelea
- Nov 19
- 2 min
My Love Is Like a Red, Red Sky (From Pollution): Prompt
Craig Santos Perez is one of the best poets writing environmentally-aware poetry these days. His poem posted on my blog today, "Love in a...
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marychristinedelea
- Nov 12
- 1 min
Let's Keep Things Light: Creative Prompt
The last poems posted on my blog, prior to today's post, are all serious and intense and powerful. Each one tells a bit of a woman's...
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marychristinedelea
- Nov 5
- 2 min
Obey the Aubade: Creative Prompt
I have been very interested in aubades lately--both reading and writing them. I think what is drawing me to them is all of the...
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marychristinedelea
- Oct 29
- 1 min
In the News: Prompt
For your inspiration this week, take a headline from the news--don't read the article (unless you really, really want to) and use the...
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marychristinedelea
- Oct 22
- 1 min
Quietly Moving: Creative Prompt
Today's blog poem, A.E. Stringer's "Sunday Morning, Cumberland Gap" conjures up both movement (through space and through time) and...
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marychristinedelea
- Oct 15
- 2 min
All Hallows: Writing Prompt
Louise Glück died on Friday, October 13, 2023, at the age of 80. She grew up in Hewlett, a Nassau County hamlet on Long Island. She...
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marychristinedelea
- Oct 8
- 2 min
Write to the Music: Writing Prompt
As usual (although not always), this week's prompt takes its cue from today's blog poem, Middle-Aged Karaoke by Timothy Houghton. But you...
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marychristinedelea
- Oct 1
- 1 min
Sugar or Storm: Prompt
Two choices this week . . . or combine this two things for more of a challenge! Choice one: describe the end of a storm as Jean Toomer...
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marychristinedelea
- Sep 24
- 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 17
- 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 10
- 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 3
- 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
- Aug 27
- 1 min
When Joy Finds You: Prompt
Using the Ed Ochester poem posted today on my blog as inspiration, write a poem (or write some prose, or paint, or sculpt, or draw, or...
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marychristinedelea
- Aug 20
- 1 min
Be Something Else: Writing Prompt
Today's posted poem is "Diary of a Carpenter Wasp" by Gary L. McDowell. His chapbook also includes poems about mosquitos and birds, and...
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marychristinedelea
- Aug 13
- 1 min
After the Happily: Prompt
Yes, it has been done before, and not only by Jane Yolen! Lots of writers and visual artists have depicted what really happens after...
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marychristinedelea
- Aug 6
- 1 min
A Sontina?: Prompt
Yes, a sontina. It is a form of poetry that I invented. As far as I know, the poem I posted on my blog today, Xarpo, is the only sontina...
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marychristinedelea
- Jul 30
- 2 min
To Villanelle or Not to Villanelle?: Prompt
This week's prompt gives you a few choices, so it can be done by poets, prose writers, and visual artists of any kind! You can write a...
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marychristinedelea
- Jul 23
- 1 min
Conceited Much?: Writing Prompt
Taking a little break from the villanelle form in my blog this week, to bring you a short poem by Linda Pastan, and from which we will...
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