Author Archives: Maggie C

About Maggie C

Stained glass artist, writer, respecter of life.

The Grand Scheme

Posted on May 11, 2018

This week’s Daily Post photo challenge asks “Where do you belong?” and the challenge is to “show us your Place in the World  … give us a glimpse of who you are in the grand scheme of things.” In the grand … Continue reading →

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Tall Order

Posted on May 10, 2018

HEROES WANTED Must have crisp capes and masks with just the right balance of intrigue and mystery. Must have superpowers of seeing through rumors, lies and half-truths; and leaping over small thoughts, imposed barriers and festering hatred. Must be unflinching … Continue reading →

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Wordless Wednesday 5.2.18

Posted on May 2, 2018
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Bookends (Slaking the Muse)

Posted on May 1, 2018

I began April’s National Poetry Writing Month (NaPoWriMo) with a poem about “Waking the Muse.” Now thirty days later (and 30 poems, though not all were posted), I will bookend the month with a sequel to the first poem. Hence: … Continue reading →

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Off the Wall

Posted on April 30, 2018

Forty scientists and engineers and computer programmers toil each year, a million bucks per annum spent, a decade now, with price so dear. Another study of fifty years, such value held in answers sought, in labs where winged subjects die, … Continue reading →

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Cruel Moon

Posted on April 29, 2018

“The moon is merciless,” she writes. Cruel and scathing, she tells us. Is this the same moon under which lovers swoon? The same moon toward which canids tilt sharp-muzzled heads and sing ballads torn from the depths of ancient heritage? … Continue reading →

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Rough Draft

Posted on April 28, 2018

NaPoWriMo Challenge, Day 28:  “Draft a prose poem in the form/style of a postcard.”  Okay, maybe I took it a little too literal 🙂

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