Yesterday’s poetics prompt at dVerse Poets Pub celebrated Teachers’ Day in India. Punam challenged us to write a poem about our teacher. New Poem Precocious ~from the Latin praecox meaning early ripening I remember Miss Berniewho saw merecognized the needin a precocious childand supplied a home-made packet of extrawork. Not more reading, not more math,butContinue reading “Teacher Appreciation”
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Poetry in Motion
Continuing my desire to get back to doing things I did before my diagnosis, today is Stream of Consciousness Saturday (SoCS) and the prompt is motion. Motion draws my eye, a bee at the hummingbird’s favorite trumpet flower pulling down the vine, making it bounce. It’s name? I don’t remember and I won’t look itContinue reading “Poetry in Motion”
Descort
Note to poets: I had noticed a lot of strange traffic to my site this last year. The wordpress forums assured me that the little bots constantly visiting my old posts were nothing to worry about and harmless, but that didn’t sit right with me. They had to be doing something. Then I happened toContinue reading “Descort”
It’s ModPo Time
A very quick writer’s life update: Last December I was diagnosed with stage four colorectal cancer and started chemo. I had a mass the size of a football on an ovary (I looked nine months pregnant) and another large one in my colon. The two tumors pushed together and completely blocked my colon in lateContinue reading “It’s ModPo Time”
Free Poetry Collection
I’m excited to share that Heron Tree has compiled all of the poems they published for their twelfth year into a free downloadable PDF. Usually the editors suggest an interesting text or two for poets to work from, but for their twelfth year, they requested that poets select a text from before 1930 and useContinue reading “Free Poetry Collection”
An Upside Down World
Yesterday’s Poetics prompt at dVerse Poets Pub was to choose one of four paintings by Chagall and write an ekphrastic poem. My focus this year is surreality. As Chagall’s dream imagery had an influence on the surrealists, I felt inspired to start my surreality posts with a poem to this prompt. Return to an Upside-downContinue reading “An Upside Down World”
The Middle of a Time
Learning>Depth 🌊This post is part of this year’s ongoing depth study🧩This post explores the definition of depth as the middle of a time This year’s depth study is coming to a close, but there are still some definitions I want to look at. One that I find fascinating is “the middle of a time.” ForContinue reading “The Middle of a Time”
It’s Halloween
Writober 2025: Day Thirty-one Halloween>Response Post 🔗Links in the Table of Contents are Jump links to my responses to each of the challenges 🐦⬛This is original work created by Maria L. Berg and this post counts as copyright. All rights reserved. 🎃OctPoWriMo 🦇Writober Flash Fiction 👻Halloween Photography Challenge These are my responses to the promptContinue reading “It’s Halloween”
Happy Halloween
Writober 2025: Our Deepest Fears>Prompt Post 🔗Post contains Amazon associate links (shown with Aal in parentheses)🔗Links in the Table of Contents are Jump links to each of the challenges to navigate easily to the prompt of your interest: OctPoWriMo for poetry; Writober Flash Fiction for flash fiction; Halloween Photography Challenge for photography🐦⬛Example poems are copiedContinue reading “Happy Halloween”
Ancient and Mind-blowing
Writober 2025: Day Thirty Eldritch Horror>Response Post 🔗Links in the Table of Contents are Jump links to my responses to each of the challenges 🐦⬛This is original work created by Maria L. Berg and this post counts as copyright. All rights reserved. 🎃OctPoWriMo 🦇Writober Flash Fiction 👻Halloween Photography Challenge Today’s Theme: Eldritch Horror These areContinue reading “Ancient and Mind-blowing”