Poetry
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A poem Inspired by the Green Lacewing – Your garden Helper!!
Green Lacewings are a delicate insect with intricate lacy veining on their wings. You may have never noticed them before. If you see them, be happy! They are a very beneficial insect to have around your garden because of the garden pests (insects and larvae) that they predate. So munch away at those pests dear… Continue reading
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“Yesterdays” is Featured in Wolff Poetry Literary Magazine
Celebrate with me!!! “Yesterdays” is featured in Wolff Poetry Literary Magazine Happy Dancing y’all. If anyone wants to share the post featuring my poetry, I’d be delighted. It’s a great day to be a writer. ~Christina Continue reading
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Hoppy-Toads in the Summer ~ a poem
I don’t know about you but when I was a child the summers were magnificent. Long hot days spent out in the yard, playing in our sand box and on the swing set my daddy built. He also built our sandbox which had a second floor with a tire ladder to climb up. There… Continue reading
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Help Your Writer’s Block with Free Download – Writing Prompts
Coffee/tea? CHECK. Motivation? CHECK, well, mostly check. Blinking cursor? CHECK Now what. That blinking cursor is doing its thing, so why aren’t my fingers moving? Come on brain! Fingers! Type something…anything? WHERE ARE MY WORDS??? It has happened to the best of us. We follow our routine, settle in for a good… Continue reading
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Desperately Seeking Oblivion
Desperately Seeking Oblivion He wants to taste it, quick on the tip of his tongue sliding with ease down into his gut… Someone should tell him to stop swallowing it whole. A strange enigma, [oblivion] tasting like nothing, encompassing, delivering, numbness… a capsuled oasis in vast desert to which all will dig and crawl our… Continue reading
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Tomorrows ~ a poem about HOPE, by Christina Ward
This poem is about hope. About reaching into tomorrow and becoming whatever you want to be. It is about connecting with the world around you and truly feeling inspired and blessed by it. What will your tomorrows bring? Will you embrace it? Here is my newest poem: Tomorrows Here it is. A new year… Continue reading
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The Poet Cleaning ~ (a poem about being a poet/writer)
Ripped from the belly of the sea pregnant with vowels our tails slap hard pendulous swings, our eyes are benign, panicked moons, fibroadenomas sitting inside our heads. They must be plucked out. We climb outside ourselves, hold the knife steady, scrape against the grain, shedding our silvers until we are clean, carve a canoe-slice across… Continue reading
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A Poem Entitled “Coming Home” – An Honest Look at Life
Let’s face it, living in cheap rental homes is no fun. But while you are stuck in the financial setbacks and the upward struggles, this “limbo” IS your home. May as well slap a $3.25 Dollar General wreath on that door and make the best of it! …see my poem below, about making… Continue reading
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Advice on Writing With Diversity – Here are 7 Great tips!
Writing With Diversity We all want our writing to be authentic. I have heard all of my writing life “write what you know.” While this is a great guideline, I think it is important for our writing to appeal to a diverse group of readers, while being sensitive to cultures, races, religious groups and sexual… Continue reading
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Doe Season in Mamma’s Kitchen ~ a poem about my childhood
Doe Season in Mamma’s Kitchen Every week or so Daddy brings home a stiff-legged, russet-colored doe and hangs her by her feet on my swing set. Mamma blinks her eyes away and silently wipes down the aged green countertops with a dilapidated kitchen sponge. He is careful with the knife in the afternoon sun,… Continue reading
About Me
Christina M. Ward is an author and freelance writer from the beautiful state of NC where she resides with her two furbabies. She’s edited over 50 poetry collections from around the world, published three of her own, and is working on her second novel. Christina is the sole owner and operator of Fiddleheads & Floss Writing Services through which she does freelance SEO content writing and editing.
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