White Violets
The prompt for this was to use the names of Oscar winning movies. I chose The Shape of Water In late February Marcella found a meager crop of unevenly spaced [...]
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Feb, 2025
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Feb, 2025
I Didn’t Know He Was the Devil
These prompts are from Two Sylvias Newsletter: “How Does Your Garden Grow?”-flower prompts!—bleeding heart, devil’s backbone, cupid’s dart, angels’ trumpet, fairy bells, lamb’s ear, hen and chicks, sneezeweed, ghost pipe, [...]
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Feb, 2025
Love is an Avocado
A special poem for Valentine's Day! Love is an avocadoshaped like the human heart,and the human heartis a pumpthat sends the blood reelingin ways gravity alonecannot do.But the human heart [...]
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Feb, 2025
The Story of Two Cookies
Two Cookies This was written with my Thursday night group. There were many prompts as usual, but I only used two: the story of two cookies and dumbass pandemic During [...]
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Jan, 2025
Happy St. Brigid’s Feast Day!
Fifty-something years ago in a Catholic school not so far away, the nuns used to read to us from The Lives of the Saints. St. Brigid was always my favorite, [...]
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Jan, 2025
Spool
Written with my Thursday night group with the prompts: do you have any new memories?, he was not ready, dream, we the people, but first the table of contents, he [...]
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Jan, 2025
Believe in Magic? How Could I Not?
The prompt for this poem came from Suleika Jaouad's Isolation Journal. The inspiration is a poem from Dean Young called Belief in Magic and I've stolen his first line for [...]
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Jan, 2025
Leave It To The Bees
Written with my Thursday night group with the prompts: face, United States, queen, xerox, tundra, nectarine, hail, cat, vermin, isolation Jenna stretches out in a small patch of sunlight [...]
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Dec, 2024
Solstice Thoughts
2024 has been a mixed bag—like every year, I guess. I was blessed to have the resources to remodel my kitchen! It was a long, messy process, unpleasant at times [...]
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Dec, 2024
Our Lady of Guadalupe
Today is the Feast Day of Our Lady of Guadalupe. As you may know she is one of the many manifestations of Mary, Mother of Jesus, who has deigned [...]