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February 9, 2026 dellisphelps

Writer’s Idea Box: Winter Rhymes

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Writer’s Idea Box: story building

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winter solstice, d. ellis phelps

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new work on Texas Poetry Assignment

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Writer’s Idea Box: day-tripping

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Writer’s Idea Box: Can you smell that?

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this too–a prayer, d. ellis phelps

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three vessels in a wood

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new work: light worker

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Writer’s Idea Box: writing horses

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Writer’s Idea Box: Winter Rhymes

I keep telling myself, “It’s February. It’s February.” I have to do this because today, here in South Texas, it’s eighty-five degrees. Yep. That’s crazy! And, a week or so ago, the winter storm “Fern” brought us SNOW! And ICE! About a quarter of an inch and the whole state shut down. Wow. Talk about […]

Writer’s Idea Box: story building

winter solstice, d. ellis phelps

winter solstice, d. ellis phelps

winter solstice blessed be the darkness hoveringunder this black moonlet demons wakelet chaos comelet chaos comeinto the womb of these wee hours—the reckoning oneswhen thoughts devour& life itself is a candle spent:lit burnt dissolvingthat turns the heavy scent of what has beeninto the hint of what’s to come —a faint perfume—the rising sunand then shall […]

new work on Texas Poetry Assignment

new work on Texas Poetry Assignment

Here we are Feeding Texas by writing poems. Many thanks to Editor, Laurence Musgrove, for choosing my poem, some nameless god, for the Dec. 7th issue of the TPA Quarterly. As I will, one day at a time and by the grace of god, celebrate forty-six years of sobriety on Jan. 23, 2026, the timing […]

Writer’s Idea Box: day-tripping

Today’s writing exercise gets you up and going! I mean, it’s fine to write from your writing studio or from your living room couch. But, there’s nothing like a day-trip to wake up the muse! Truly, my muse often speaks to me when I am driving. Really? Yes. So I have a recording app on […]

Writer’s Idea Box: Can you smell that?

Writer’s Idea Box: Can you smell that?

The smell of cheap, store-bought popcorn, the smell of crayons and glue, the smell of freshly-cut grass on a summer evening: these among many others, are strong olfactory triggers that, if consciously engaged, can take a writer swiftly to another place and time. In this Idea Box exercise, we explore the power of following the […]

this too–a prayer, d. ellis phelps

this too–a prayer, d. ellis phelps

Once, my son-in-law, asked me “How do you pray?” All I could think to say was, “I breathe, mostly.” That is still true today, but I would add: I sit. Especially in nature and as one Buddhist friend says, I listen for clues. This poem is one example of one such morning, me sitting in […]

three vessels in a wood

Own this original painting now… Woods, vessels, florals, and figures, especially faces, hands, and feet are recurring images in my paintings. Trees become dryads, vessels become bodies, bodies become spirit guides, floral impressions become bounty, fertility, and beauty. In this painting, vessels seem to become trees in a dark wood, their canopies full of bountiful […]

new work: light worker

Own this original now… I have been practicing light work or energy work for decades. I began with Reiki Level 1 in the early 1990s (yes. I’m from the 1900s). I have continued my studies and practice of energy healing since then and have found it to be the singular most important thing I have […]

Writer’s Idea Box: writing horses

Writing warm ups can be of enormous value for developing fodder for future in-depth explorations. This month, I depart from the standard syllabus I usually offer to offer, instead, a rich writing warm-up exercise I call “writing horses.” This exercise, it may surprise you, has nothing whatsoever to do with actual horses, the animal, but […]

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