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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”

Fear from Out of Space

Extra Terrestrials

Writober 2025: Day Twenty-nine Other-worldly>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: Extra Terrestrials These are myContinue reading “Extra Terrestrials”

Other-worldly Monsters

Bigger Than the Sum of Its Parts

Writober 2025: Day Twenty-eight Golems>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: The Monsters We Make TheseContinue reading “Bigger Than the Sum of Its Parts”