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Crises of Nature

These poems continue my exploration of Krisis for the dVerse Poets Pub anthology call. It’s the last Open Link Night before the deadline, and we were given the opportunity to present up to three poems for this post. I’ve come up with two offerings. Betrayal By Nature “Nature never did betray the heart that loved her.”~William Wordsworth But the nest beneath my window:How I loved watching the…

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Summer Fling

This poem is in response to Laura Bloomsbury’s MTB prompt at dVerse Poets Pub to write in the Parallelogram de Crystalline form about “the beauty of a (real or imaginary) lover as compared with and described in images of nature.” Summer Fling A love likeA wild bunny gorgingOn juicy ripe garden strawberries Grows brazenAnd bold with each red theftBut darts from the gushing sprinkler’s…

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Deep Reading

“If we approach reading mindfully, we’ll get more out of it.” ~Brian Jackson One thing that came up in April’s exploration of Depth that I wanted to explore further was Deep Reading. In Madhu Bazaz Wangu’s Unblock Your Creative Flow(Amazon assoc. link), she says Deep Reading is “transformative reading that will help you grow in your writing and enrich your daily life.” She describes Deep Reading…

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Breaking Through My Crossroads Block

This year, 2025, at the end of August, is the 20th Anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. It’s hard for us survivors to believe it has already been that long because we are still affected by it every day. Any survivor of traumatic events knows what anniversaries can do. So please be tender with any K-storm survivors you know, especially this late August and early September. Opportunities by Maria L.…

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April Review and What's Next

Now that April’s busy challenges are over and we’ve had a couple days to breathe and calm down, let’s take some time to reflect on the month as a whole, and celebrate all we accomplished. This year I really appreciated the array of content, and readers’ comments in conversation with my content. Here are some of my favorites:Favorite Sites I Visited: Deborah Weber: “A Logophile’s Ludic…

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The Zenith

It’s our last day of NaPoWriMo (National /Global Poetry Writing Month) and the A-Z Challenge. We made it. Congratulations!! from Wikipedia Here we are at the zenith of our depth study. This is the culminating moment, the climactic and decisive point. Like depth, zenith both abstract and concrete meanings. The zenith is the point of the celestial sphere vertically overhead of the observer. The…

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The Depth of Yearning

It’s our last couple days of NaPoWriMo (National /Global Poetry Writing Month) and the A-Z Challenge. I hope you’re enjoying the A to Z of Depth. Yearning by Maria L. Berg 2022 I really like the word yearning. It evokes longing and desire, but also has year in it and earning and is only one letter off from learning. I found a quote that expresses just that: “A happy life is one spent in…

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Seeing Depth with X-rays

It’s our last few days of NaPoWriMo (National /Global Poetry Writing Month) and the A-Z Challenge. I hope you’re enjoying the A to Z of Depth. from Wikipedia During this month’s exploration of depth, we’ve talked about many ways to look inside ourselves like: Abstract and Concrete thinking, Depth Data, Depth Psychology, Depth of Knowledge, and Mindfulness. X-rays are how we can physically see…

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New Depths

Today being Sunday, there is no A to Z. Here is my poem in response to the prompts at NaPoWriMo and Writer’s Digest’s Poem a Day Challenge. Sadko in the Underwater Kingdom by Ilya Repin 1876 New Depths The frontman gets all the gloryeven here in the depthsof the underwater kingdomwhere do they think the processionalmusic is coming from as theyparade their daughtersbefore him?Sadko, even you…

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The Weather Deepens

It’s our last full week of NaPoWriMo (National /Global Poetry Writing Month) and the A-Z Challenge. I hope you’re enjoying the A to Z of Depth. from NOAA When we talk about the weather, it’s usually small talk. The most shallow kind of talk with no emotional connection unless there’s been a severe weather event. However, one of our definitions of Deepen comes from Meteorology. Deepen can mean…

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Visuospatial Reasoning

It’s our last full week of NaPoWriMo (National /Global Poetry Writing Month) and the A-Z Challenge. I hope you’re enjoying the A to Z of Depth. from “Visual-Spatial Ability Test” at ScienceDirect Did you ever take a test with images like the ones above? If so, you were asked to look at the image on the left and imagine it as a 3-D object, then turn it in your mind and choose what it would look…

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Depth of the Unchanging One

It’s our last full week of NaPoWriMo (National /Global Poetry Writing Month) and the A-Z Challenge. I hope you’re enjoying the A to Z of Depth. One Unchanging Substance, One Underlying Being by Maria L. Berg 2025 Yesterday we dove into change and transformation, so when I read, “the human mind is capable of fathoming that unchanging one behind the many, and having fathomed it, the mind would…

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Transformation

It’s our last full week of NaPoWriMo (National /Global Poetry Writing Month) and the A-Z Challenge. I hope you’re enjoying the A to Z of Depth. Transformations by Maria L. Berg 2025 Depth can lead to transformation. Transformation is change: a. change in composition or structureb. change in outward form or appearance c. change in character or condition Looking at our depth definitions,…

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Sounding for Depth

It’s our last full week of NaPoWriMo (National /Global Poetry Writing Month) and the A-Z Challenge. I hope you’re enjoying the A to Z of Depth. Olaus Magnus Historia om de nordiska folken. Bok 2 – Kapitel 12 – Om de norska hafskusternas omättliga djup. – Utgivningsår 1555. Sounding is a way to physically measure the depth of a body of water. Using a thin rope with a plummet usually made of lead…

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Depth is Recondite

It’s our last full week of NaPoWriMo (National /Global Poetry Writing Month) and the A-Z Challenge. I hope you’re enjoying the A to Z of Depth. Recondite is also a DJ. I just love the space he’s in. “To gain a reputation for wisdom a man must seem to have a store of recondite knowledge . . .” ~Bertram Russell I like the word “seem” in that quote. Recondite is an adjective meaning: difficult…

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Deep Questions

It’s already April, and at Experience Writing that means it’s time for NaPoWriMo (National /Global Poetry Writing Month) and the A-Z Challenge. Continuing this year’s theme, I’m writing about the A to Z of Depth. Deep Questions by Maria L. Berg 2025 To learn anything, we need to ask questions. To reach a depth of understanding we need to ask a lot of questions. How do we come up with the…

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Depth of the Noosphere

It’s already April, and at Experience Writing that means it’s time for NaPoWriMo (National /Global Poetry Writing Month) and the A-Z Challenge. Continuing this year’s theme, I’m writing about the A to Z of Depth. infographic from Human Energy the formation, taking place before our eyes and arising out of this factor of hominization, of a particular biological entity such as has never before…