Hope by Elsa Gidlow
Hope by Elsa Gidlow (from her 1923 book, On a Golden Thread) You would win me, woo me, win me, To be your lover, Hope! You would lure me,...
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marychristinedelea
- Jun 16
- 1 min
There Has to Be a First for Everything: Prompt
Today's poem on my blog, "Hope," was written by Elsa Gidlow and appears in her 1923 book, On a Golden Thread. Here is what the Academy of...
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marychristinedelea
- Jun 12
- 1 min
if time is queer/and memory is trans/and my hands hurt in the cold/then by Raquel Salas Rivera
if time is queer/and memory is trans/and my hands hurt in the cold/then by Raquel Salas Rivera (published in their 2021 book, x/ex/exis:...
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marychristinedelea
- Jun 9
- 1 min
Elegy for Mr. Spock by W. Todd Kaneko
Elegy for Mr. Spock by W. Todd Kaneko (published in Split Lip Magazine, August 2018) The first time you died, your friends searched the...
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marychristinedelea
- Jun 9
- 1 min
None of These Things Are Like the Others (or are they?): Prompt
Today, after visiting two wineries, reading about some returning TV shows, listening to music, re-reading today's blog poem, and my...
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marychristinedelea
- Jun 5
- 3 min
Casey at the Bat by Ernest Lawrence Thayer
Casey at the Bat by Ernest Lawrence Thayer (first published on June 3, 1888 in The San Francisco Examiner) The outlook wasn't brilliant...
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marychristinedelea
- Jun 2
- 2 min
The Summer of George: Prompt
Thanks to the New York Times, I just went down a rabbit hole of summer themes. (See the article that started this here--it's gifted, so...
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marychristinedelea
- Jun 2
- 2 min
Night Baseball by Michael Blumenthal
Night Baseball by Michael Blumenthal (and printed here, as well as in his book Days We Would Rather Know) [I] retrace by moonlight the...
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marychristinedelea
- May 29
- 1 min
Instructions for Not Giving Up by Ada Limón
Instructions on Not Giving Up by Ada Limón (and can be found here as well as on my refrigerator) More than the fuchsia funnels breaking...
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marychristinedelea
- May 26
- 2 min
Hope, Wisdom, Trust, Valor: Prompt
Yesterday, my husband and I finally visited a place we have been meaning to go to since we moved to this area--Schreiner's Iris Gardens....
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marychristinedelea
- May 26
- 1 min
Daily Courage Doesn't Count by Alta
Daily Courage Doesn't Count by Alta (published in A Geography of Poets, edited by Edward Field, 1979) daily courage doesn't count we...
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marychristinedelea
- May 22
- 1 min
Not Waving But Drowning by Stevie Smith
Not Waving But Drowning by Stevie Smith Nobody heard him, the dead man, But still he lay moaning: I was much further out than you thought...
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marychristinedelea
- May 19
- 1 min
Jubilate Agno: Prompt
A few choices today for your prompt, and all are based on the poem on my blog today, "For I will consider my Cat Jeoffry" (from Jubilate...
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marychristinedelea
- May 19
- 4 min
For I will consider my Cat Jeoffrey by Christopher Smart
from Jubilate Agno by Christopher Smart For I will consider my Cat Jeoffry. For he is the servant of the Living God duly and daily...
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marychristinedelea
- May 15
- 1 min
Death Is Nothing At All by Henry Scott Holland
Death Is Nothing At All by Henry Scott Holland Death is nothing at all. It does not count. I have only slipped away into the next room....
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marychristinedelea
- May 12
- 1 min
Henry Hudson Looks at the Hudson by David Shapiro
Henry Hudson Looks at the Hudson by David Shapiro (published in Jacket Magazine, August, 2003) Henry Hudson turned to me and said: Be...
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marychristinedelea
- May 12
- 2 min
Where Were You in 1968?: Creative Prompt
If you were the poet David Shapiro, there was one day in which you posed for a photo that became symbolic and iconic and historic. The...
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marychristinedelea
- May 8
- 1 min
What Do I Care for Morning by Helene Johnson
What Do I Care for Morning by Helene Johnson What do I care for morning, For a shivering aspen tree, For sun flowers and sumac Opening...
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marychristinedelea
- May 5
- 1 min
The Peace of Wild Things by Wendell Berry
The Peace of Wild Things by Wendell Berry (published in The Peace of Wild Things by Wendell Berry, Penguin, 2018) When despair for the...
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marychristinedelea
- May 5
- 1 min
Cinco de Mayo!: Creative Prompt
I think Cinco de Mayo is a lot like Saint Patrick's Day: it's bigger in American than it is in its origin country; people of all...
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