Category: poetry
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Keeping Warm
It’s almost mid February and the weather keeps bouncing between needing three layers to stay warm outside and warm enough to plant spring flowers. Feels like Mother Nature can’t make up her mind. Maybe she’s just in neutral. We get that way sometimes. I find myself writing poems off topic from the collection I’m working…
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New Year, New Words
Ah, winter in the South. We’ve gone from freezing temps at Christmas to warm and thunderstorms. Who knows what it will feel like next week? Makes it hard to get comfortable. I post pictures on my Instagram of me writing in my car. Usually in a dimly lit parking lot while I wait for my…
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Just Write
How many times do you find yourself having trouble finding words? Writer’s block is something most people who write will have experience with at some point. Is it doubt? Fear? Lack of inspiration? I came across a poet doing a TedX talk who said writer’s block was none of these things, but was a surplus…
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Meet Darius
He thinks he’s so smooth that deep voice always gets him in trouble Not that his looks would be any help if he stayed in one shape all the time I’ve never seen his natural form but he tells me he has wings and horns I keep asking about the forked tail but he just…
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Where did I put that Muse?
Inspiration is a fickle thing. Where do you find it? Where do you keep it once you get it? What do you do with it? As a writer, especially one with ADHD, I often struggle with keeping inspiration on tap. But there are lots of things that can help with that. I find a lot…
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What did you say?
Most people know what poetry is, or at least what it looks like. But what is speculative poetry? In an editorial for Strange Horizons magazine, Mark Rich defines it this way: “in the speculative poem, the poet presents an unreal world as though presenting the real one.” Speculative poetry is the poetic form of speculative…
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Meet Veronica…
What do you know of magic? with you slight of hand and parlor tricks I see no aura around you no shimmer of power Do your ancestors talk to you at all? mine have walked this path with me for decades guiding the powers I use the gifts they’ve entrusted me with Can you cook…
Writer Becca Calloway 