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marychristinedelea
Oct 16, 20242 min read
Every Body Lies by A.E. Hines
Every Body Lies by A.E. Hines (published in his 2021 book, Any Dumb Animal , from Main Street Rag Press) That’s what it says on her...
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marychristinedelea
Oct 13, 20242 min read
What's Your Sign?: Prompt
As a Capricorn, I am ambitious, loyal, responsible, honest, determined, pessimistic, sensitive, practical, and suspicious. Part of my...
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marychristinedelea
Oct 13, 20242 min read
Sonnet 43 by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Sonnet 43 by Elizabeth Barrett Browning How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height My...
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marychristinedelea
Oct 9, 20243 min read
Onions by William Matthews
Onions by William Matthews (published in his Selected Poems and Translations, 1969-1991 , Houghton Mifflin Company, 1992) How...
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marychristinedelea
Oct 6, 20241 min read
Love and Death: Prompt
Use today's wonderful poem posted here on my blog, During an Enchantment in the Life by Brenda Hillman, for your inspiration today. She...
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marychristinedelea
Oct 6, 20242 min read
During an Enchantment in the Life by Brenda Hillman
During an Enchantment in the Life by Brenda Hillman (published in her 2022 book, In a Few Minutes Before Later (Wesleyan University ...
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marychristinedelea
Oct 2, 20242 min read
Birds in Cemeteries by George Kalogeris
Birds in Cemeteries by George Kalogeris (published in NOR 11, Spring 2012 ) It must be the shade that draws them. Or else the grass....
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marychristinedelea
Sep 29, 20241 min read
Flophouse?: Prompt
Does anyone use the term "flophouse" anymore? If you aren't familiar, it is a synonym for a sleazy motel. These places are everywhere and...
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marychristinedelea
Sep 29, 20241 min read
Marriage (motel) by Laura McCullough
Marriage (motel) by Laura McCullough (published in Posit , 2018 ) Inland, just west of Atlantic City, old motels stand hunched as if...
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marychristinedelea
Sep 25, 20242 min read
The Death of Rachel Carson--April 14, 1964 by Donelle Dreese
The Death of Rachel Carson--April 14, 1964 by Donelle Dreese (published in Canary , Spring, 2017 ) The battle of living things...
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marychristinedelea
Sep 22, 20241 min read
How to Open Doors: Prompt
I have had 16 cats throughout my life. Their back stories have been as different as their personalities. They were/are, of course, all...
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marychristinedelea
Sep 22, 20242 min read
Ellis Island by Joseph Bruchac
Ellis Island by Joseph Bruchac (published in his 1978 book, Entering Onondaga, Cold Mountain Press) Beyond the red brick of Ellis...
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marychristinedelea
Sep 18, 20243 min read
Meteor, April 2020 by Amy Miller
Meteor, April 2020 by Amy Miller (published in Sweet Lit, 2020 )Â In the year of our plague, we saw a light. Like a plane on fire,...
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marychristinedelea
Sep 15, 20241 min read
See You in September: Prompt
"See You in September" by The Happenings is just one of the many great songs written about September. See also: September by The Shins...
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marychristinedelea
Sep 15, 20242 min read
Season’s End by Audrey Colasanti
Season’s End by Audrey Colasanti (published in Humana Obscura , Fall/Winter 2021 ) All around, the grasses sway copper and flax, warm...
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marychristinedelea
Sep 11, 20242 min read
Portrait of a Figure Near Water by Jane Kenyon
Portrait of a Figure Near Water by Jane Kenyon (published in her Collected Poems , Graywolf Press, 2005) Rebuked, she turned and ran...
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marychristinedelea
Sep 8, 20241 min read
A Family Affair: Prompt
Be inspired by Ruth Stone’s poem, posted on my blog today. Her portrait of Aunt Maud is detailed, fresh, and thorough. One of the major...
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marychristinedelea
Sep 8, 20243 min read
How Aunt Maud Took to Being a Woman by Ruth Stone
How Aunt Maud Took to Being a Woman  by Ruth Stone (published in Persimmon Tree and elsewhere) A long hill sloped down to Aunt Maud’s...
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marychristinedelea
Sep 4, 20242 min read
Summer by César Vallejo
Summer by César Vallejo translated from the Spanish by Yvette Siegert Summer, I am leaving. And how they pain me, These meek hands of...
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marychristinedelea
Sep 1, 20241 min read
The Sound of Silence: Prompt
Today's poem on this very blog features some silence, as well as cows and birds making some noise. And although the speaker is out...
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