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The Big Reveal: Blogging from A to Z April Challenge

Posted on March 17, 2021 by Maggie C

April is always a challenging month on this blog. I am of course referring to the blogging/poetry challenges that take place this time of year. For 2021, I’m participating in the Blogging from A to Z Challenge, where one commits … Continue reading →

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2020 hindsight

Posted on December 30, 2020 by Maggie C

sights – set high – blown off cours(ing) through air – a virus strain(s) humanity

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Poetic Injustice

Posted on November 19, 2020 by Maggie C

Justice is blind, though inherently judgmental. My verdict awaits. COVID culls with dispassion guilty and guileless alike. dVerse MTB: Jisei (Japanese Death Poems)

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Chez Maggie

Posted on April 27, 2020 by Maggie C

NaPoWriMo,*Day twenty-seven: Today’s prompt: “write a poem in the form of a review. But not a review of a book or a movie of a restaurant. Instead, I challenge you to write a poetic review of something that isn’t normally … Continue reading →

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The Simple Life

Posted on April 26, 2020 by Maggie C

Day 26 of NaPoWriMo.* For today’s prompt, we were asked to fill out an “Almanac Questionnaire” that you can find here, then use our responses as the basis for a poem. And so I came up with this depiction of … Continue reading →

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Day Twenty-five: Free Write

Posted on April 25, 2020 by Maggie C

NaPoWriMo Day 25. * Today, “The prompt, which you can find in its entirety here, was  developed by the poet and teacher Hoa Nguyen, asks you to use a long poem by James Schuyler as a guidepost for your poem.” The … Continue reading →

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Sweet Bella

Posted on April 13, 2020 by Maggie C

Bella went to heaven today. Now her worry wrinkles will unfold. She will take well-earned peaceful naps and  wake the angels with her snoring. She will bow down and wiggle her butt in the universal “let’s play” gesture, And other … Continue reading →

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Frostilocks

Posted on April 12, 2020 by Maggie C

Whose house this is, I think I know. Their village is the woods, and so they will not mind my stepping in, I’ll eat their porridge, then I’ll go. Their furniture both sparse and spare, I tried to sit in … Continue reading →

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Harbinger

Posted on April 11, 2020 by Maggie C

Day Eleven of NaPoWriMo.* Today’s prompt: “write a poem in which one or more flowers take on specific meanings. “ And so: Harbinger You push through winter-hardened earth; herald of spring, though late winter snow lingers. A peek of green, … Continue reading →

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Necessity

Posted on April 8, 2020 by Maggie C

Day Eight of NaPoWriMo.* “Today’s poetry resource is a series of twitter accounts that tweet phrases from different poets’ work… Our prompt for the day (optional as always) asks you to peruse the work of one or more of these … Continue reading →

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