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Phynnecabulary"The Ring," An Original Story by Janice De Jesus, Part 2Part two of the ninth story in our summer "Can I Tell You a Story?" series * Is This a Meet-Cute...or What? * Phynne Reads, "The Ring" * Check me out on ko-fi.com
2020-09-0916 minPhynnecabulary"The Ring," An Original Story by Janice De Jesus, Part 1The ninth story in our summer "Can I Tell You a Story?" series
Segment 1 Resilient Soul: Featured writer, Janice De Jesus
Segment 2 "The Ring," a story by Janice De Jesus
Segment 3 Look out for Janice's newest book out later this month!
2020-09-0119 minPhynnecabulary“Rosa Birhen,” An Original Story by Tricia DeJesus-GutierrezThe eighth story in our summer “Can I Tell You a Story?” Series • You can take the girl out of Catholic school... • Phynne Reads “Rosa Birhen.” • Handy dandy Tagalog glossary • Thanks a million for listening!
2020-08-2510 minPhynnecabulary“Berkeley Nights, “ An Original Story by Tricia De Jesus-GutierrezThe seventh story in our “Can I Tell You a Story” series • Back to One • Tricia Reads, “Berkeley Nights • We Can Talk Over a Cup of Coffee!
2020-08-1816 minPhynnecabulary“The Sequencer,” An Original Story by Ana Galvan, Part 2The second part of the sixth story in our summer “Can I Tell You a Story?” series.
2020-08-1121 minPhynnecabulary“The Sequencer,” an Original Story by Ana Galvan, Part 1The sixth story in our summer “Can I Tell You a Story?” series. 1. Jill of All Trades: Ana Galvan • “The Sequencer,” a story by Ana Galvan • Support indie authors—buy their books!
2020-08-0420 minPhynnecabulary“What a Doll!” An Original Story from Tricia DeJesus-GutierrezHorror Be Her Name: Poet Tricia DeJesus-Gutierrez • What a Doll! I. Just Another Saturday at Miller’s • II. Slighted • III. The Shortcut • IV. Paper Dolls, Blue Eyes, Red Blood
2020-07-2818 minPhynnecabulary“Every Color Stands Bright,” An Original Story by Jedediah SmithIn the Middle of His World: Poet and Writer, Jedediah Smith • Jedediah Reads His Story, “Every Color Stands Bright” • Hope You Have a Positive Week!
2020-07-2109 minPhynnecabulary“7016 15th Street, Apartment 425. The Stairwell.”An Original Story by Stephanie Licudine.A romantic heart:Stephanie Licudine • I read S. Licudine’s “7016 15th Street...” • Support poets and storytellers!
2020-07-1417 minPhynnecabulary“Love at First Sight,” a tale narrated by Jon GourdineThe second story in our summer “Can I Tell You a Story?” series. • Creator of Worlds, Jon Gourdine • Jon Gourdine reads, Love at First Sight” • Please support writers and poets!
2020-07-0708 minPhynnecabularyCan I Tell You a Story?I’d like to kick off the month of July with a bit of summer storytelling. Today is the first story in a series of short stories to be shared over the next four weeks. It’s story time, kids • Proceed with Caution • Open Mic Thursday! announcement
2020-06-3012 minPhynnecabularyLove Still LingersI read Rainer Maria Rilke’s “I Am Much Too Alone in This World, Yet Not Alone.”
2020-06-2303 minPhynnecabularyLove SHOULD Be in the AirL-O-V-E • Garcia-Lorca • Sarton • Hunt • Summer Love Open Mic
2020-06-0908 minPhynnecabularyBusting Out of Our Very SkinTemperatures escalate/ Tempers rise • “We are Searching the Night for the Moon.” Part 1 • “We are Searching the Night for the Moon,” Part 2
2020-06-0407 minPhynnecabularyLast Dance Reprise (a love song sang softly to my Mama walking away)ONE breath * TWO breaths * THREE breaths
2020-05-2603 minPhynnecabulary“Named Must Be Your Fear, Before Banish It You Can”Yoda is my co-pilot • “If You’re Going to Look Like a Wolf...” Abigail Chabitnoy • Thank you! Lights On!
2020-05-0504 min2020-04-2804 minPhynnecabularyAddress the RageStepbystepbystep • Stepbystepbystep2 • “Having Words,” Alfred Corn • “To All My Friends,” May Yang • “Feel Piece 4,” Hannah Ensor and Laura Wetherington • “On Emotion,” Jennifer Chang • Thank you. Love.
2020-04-2112 minPhynnecabularyThe Smoothie IncidentNational Ex-Spouse Day, WaitSayWhaat?! * A Peculiar Green * Thank you from the bottom of my
2020-04-1407 minPhynnecabularyHorror Where You Find ItA lockdown worth of horror • Pass the fake blood, please. • All in for a good jump scare • “The Horror Movie,” Ana Galván • The voices say hello. We mean, thank you.
2020-04-0711 minPhynnecabularyApril is National Poetry MonthNew Normal • Read Poetry and Germinate • “Words for Departure,” Louise Bogan • A Big, Yummy Thank You
2020-03-3105 minPhynnecabularyLet a Little Love Go a Long WayWe all need a little reassurance of love and caring still being very present in the world. I only hope I can place a little more light today in yours. **Like Rain Blessing the Parched Earth**
2020-03-2404 minPhynnecabularyRaise Your Hand If You Have Angered the Gods RecentlyFrom my solitary pea pod to yours • Mañana Mañana, a poem by Rooster Cogburn • Fuggetaboutit, a poem by Affluent Pauper • Upon Our Palms, Crimson, a poem by Tricia De Jesus • Please show your support for creative minds
2020-03-1712 minPhynnecabularyCreationFebruary and the Chinese Zodiac Kitty • Creative Slump, I Banish Thee! • Malakas at Maganda, Part 1 • Malakas at Maganda, Part 2 • YOU are my cheering squad!
2020-03-0309 minPhynnecabularyKindness + FairytalesIt takes two weeks to form a habit, I’m told • A good word or deed, a striking of pixie dust • “Abadeha,” adapted by Myrna J. De la Paz • “Abadeha,” part 2 • “Abadeha,” part 3 • “Abadeha,” part 4 • Your support sustains us
2020-02-1915 minPhynnecabularyCommonplace Supernatural: folklore and a tiny spattering of ghost storiesAre you up for a little ghost story? • Spain brought their faith, but our own deities were already here. • Dhe Combes her long, black hair workout a word. • Sjow some respect, skeptical heathen! • Gairy rice cakes. Yum! • Clap if you believe. • Language Lesson • Thanks for hanging out. Hope you sleep well tonight.
2020-02-1117 minPhynnecabularyMy Filipino Story, Part One (Jasmine-Scented Night)How ‘bout them Niners/Where is Puppy Bowl•All Good Things•Jasmine Scented Night
2020-02-0410 minPhynnecabularyIn Pursuit of a Beautiful Life Upon Which We Can Write Our Name in GoldI am still stunned and heartbroken 🌻 Tomorrow is on loan 🌻 “Death to Paint Us,” J. Michael Martinez
2020-01-2807 minPhynnecabularyYou Can Call It Hate, I Call It Meh.“Presenting You, and the Adversarial Edition Palette,” Tricia De Jesus • “Enemies,” Wendell Berry • “I Will Write Songs Against You,” Charles Reznikoff • “Slander,” Franz Wright
2020-01-2105 minPhynnecabularyIn the Necessary QuietSurprising Angels • “Loving What Remains, “ an original poem by Phynne a.k.a. Tricia De Jesus
2020-01-1403 minPhynnecabularyFear“Fear,” a poem by Soaring Skylark • Today I will walk through my fears • “Respiration,” a poem by Jamaal May • Be strong. Be well.
2020-01-0608 min2019-12-3006 min2019-12-2404 minPhynnecabularyNever RegretsNo Looking Back, Be in the Present • To the Rose upon the Rood of Time • Back to Bed? No, Seize the Day!
2019-12-1705 minPhynnecabularyYou Only Get One, So Be GentleReading of my original poem, “Pebble Urchin” • Phynnecabulary is now at 2 AM on Tuesdays
2019-12-1009 min2019-12-0300 minPhynnecabularyYou might as well listen in...It’s December. Already. Yikes. *Introducing the winners of my Overheard poetry challenge.* We thank you for your support.
2019-12-0212 min2019-11-2708 minPhynnecabularyIt’s a Limerick, Luv!Halloween is over! Went are we gonna do?! Make up some juicy limericks, o’course.
2019-11-0605 minPhynnecabularyRain, Rain, Magenta, & Boots- the “3 Words to Think On” ChallengePresenting the eight finalists of my “Three Words to Think On” Contest.
2019-10-2920 minPhynnecabularyCongratulations, winners of the “Weeping Woman” ChallengeShowcasing the 3 top winners of my “Response to Deborah Paredez’s “Self-Portrait with Weeping Woman” poetry contest at AllPoetry.com.
2019-10-1909 minPhynnecabularyPoems, like Magical Things, come in Threes todayDon’t Tell Me What to Do•The Tide is High and We Tied Yellow Ribbons•Liberties•Rabbit Skin•The Tide is High (all poetry is original work by Tricia De Jesus-Gutierrez)
2019-10-0605 minPhynnecabularyIt’s National Podcast Day!/Embellish the CocotteCelebrating NPD and hoping to find out what else everyone listens to•reading of my poem “Embellish the Cocotte”
2019-10-0103 min2019-09-2702 minPhynnecabularyFalse Idols, Watch Them Rise and FallInfluencers, Reality TV and such. Ah, how our lofty marble idols past writhe and scream.
2019-09-2303 minPhynnecabularyHalloween Gets Earlier and Earlier. Christmas, Too?I have yet to see many haunted house commercials, but I DID hear Christmas carols today. So weird.
2019-09-2104 min2019-09-1402 minPhynnecabularyHobbies, Projects, and Some Serious Literary HustleMercury pops the thermometer, then pasta happened•Rejoin the poetry submissions game
2019-09-1205 minPhynnecabulary9.5.19 (Absent) Flown the CoopI think you did start saying goodbye a long time ago, slowly, gently, as to not alarm us.
2019-09-0503 min2019-08-2504 minPhynnecabularyToo Much, Too Little•My Josie-phinny is not feeling well, and I’m on pins and needles, strapped to a rack of doubt, worry and exhaustion, tightening the screws and stretching my dulled mind, flaying my own regrets.
2019-08-2505 min2019-08-1802 minPhynnecabularyThanks, Mimi* I Still Believe (Mariah sings 2 decades of my life) * My All (see, you scantily clad diva—lessons are hidden in there) *
2019-08-1504 min2019-08-1401 minPhynnecabularyBuna (but Softer!)Re-recording my original poem “Buna,” with softer background music to impart the more nuanced, romantic and laidback vibe.
2019-08-0303 minPhynnecabularyA Scent, A Song, Brings Up MemoriesSensory experiences and memory • “Buna,” an original poem by PhynneBelle aka Tricia De Jesus
2019-08-0305 minPhynnecabularyGoodbye, July!OWWN story month, it was fun. Why don’t you come up and see me sometime? Wink, wink.
2019-08-0104 minPhynnecabularyYou’re A Wonder (It’s OWWN Month)!Maybe a fairy story. Maybe a myth. Maybe just a peek into an ordinary life. Aren’t we all just a little bit (or a whole lot?) of Wonder Woman, even without the bulletproof bracelets?
2019-07-2904 minPhynnecabularyThe Hearth Ceases to Burn (Hecate Wailing)Saw Carolyn and remembered, class, elegance, refinement and discretion. The Jacquelines, the Graces, the Dianas lost forever.
2019-07-1703 min2019-07-1102 min2019-07-0806 minPhynnecabularyIt’s OWWN Story Month! Story 2: The Day Maggie Gibbens Met the Forest WitchUnicorns. Little girls. Witches be like... A fashionable rooster. Yummy houses. A trip to Aunty’s house. No wolves today, sorry.
2019-07-0214 minPhynnecabulary6.29.19 Let’s Make It Odd, Wonderful, Whimsical, Nonsensical Story Month!Reading of first nonsense story I made to start the ball rolling. Hope you like!
2019-06-3008 minPhynnecabularyThe River’s Just A RiverOn My Own, Les Miserable * Tend the Stew, Burn the Rice * I Dreamed a Dream, Les Miserable
2019-06-2103 minPhynnecabulary6.12.19 Mi Ultimo Adios. Happy Philippine Independence Day!“Mi Ultimo Adios,” Dr. Jose Rizal • Maligayang Araw ng Kalayaan!
2019-06-1209 minPhynnecabulary06.11.19 If You Want to Know What We AreSummer, ackk ^ June! ^ Marin Headlands ^ Discomfort, be gone! ^ Hindi Tayo ang mga Inaapi ^ “If You Want to Know What We Are,” Carlos Bulosan
2019-06-1114 min2019-06-0603 minPhynnecabulary06.01.19 Pre-Philippine Independence E2: Filipino BoogieMayNinety • “Filipino Boogie,” a poem by Jessica Hagedorn
2019-06-0106 minPhynnecabulary5.30.19 Bayan KoCountdown to Philippine Independence Day: Bayan Ko, Jose Corazon De Jesus
2019-05-3006 minPhynnecabularyLast Dance (Disco Was Not the Only One to Die)Donna Summers and late 70s summertime is inextricably bonded to happiness, and youth now gone.
2019-05-1007 minPhynnecabularyCan You Point Out the Coward in a Crowd?It’s easy, she’s pointing back in the mirror at you.
2019-05-0505 minPhynnecabularyThe Nerve Might Flee, If We Aren’t CarefulHad. It. Up. To. Here. (**apologies to Mr. Hanrahan for butchering your name!)
2019-05-0204 minPhynnecabularyMy Walk, It’s My OwnMaybe it was a needy cry and she tried to give it away once upon a time.
2019-04-2901 min2019-04-2603 min2019-04-1902 minPhynnecabulary“By Sea”We were never meant to see each other after the foam dissipated and our ocean dried up
2019-04-1504 minPhynnecabularySwallow the Beast Whole and Gag on the Claw...otherwise, go home! You’re just wasting everyone’s time. Ain’t no one got time for that!
2019-04-1209 minPhynnecabularyPET PEEVES, A LIST. IT’S SATURDAY, YOU CAN PAUSE TO THINK AND WRITE ONE.Orchestra Warmup • Peeving hard, oh-so-hard. • Attention
2019-04-0706 minPhynnecabularyThe Trumpet Bleats PatienceIn seeing you with fresh eyes, I saw myself, too. They imagine themselves Legion, but we are winged Seraphim in multitude.
2019-03-3111 minPhynnecabularyShall We Tell Each Other Stories?Stories will always be a central part of my history, my life, my day to day.
2019-03-2305 min2019-03-1505 minPhynnecabulary3.3.19 MAKE IT A DOUBLE (if you can make a mental note to do so later!)Sunday is for writers, with some room for terms and conditions.
2019-03-0705 minPhynnecabularySay AnythingIt’s your gal, Phynne, with a Saturday afternoon poem for you to munch on. Yum. (Poem: “Just a Sestina to You, Honey, Letting You Know What an Intersting Thing Happened to Me While You Were at Home Rubbing Your Wife’s Back,” Carolyn Creedon.
2019-02-2308 minPhynnecabulary2.16.19 F-E-B-R-U-A-R-Y are Letters, and “14” is a NumberSlaughtered Saints. The Color Red. Where Love Really Happens. Shh, Enough, Hallmark.
2019-02-1611 min2019-02-1409 minPhynnecabularyThe Baby Proust QuestionnaireThe world is shrinking, we are getting closer. Can you feel it happen?
2019-02-1108 minPhynnecabularyRenting Space, Renting Life, Renting LoveYou don’t have to give out your time, your efforts, your emotions—you don’t have to award ownership to anyone else at all. Everything is just passing through.
2019-02-0703 minPhynnecabularyAlmost to the weekend and Banda is already getting the party started!Reading of a short poem by Sweedle D’Souza
2019-01-2505 minPhynnecabularySugar SkullsScars of all kinds, try them on for size. Are they comfortable on your skin?
2019-01-0602 min2018-12-0901 min2018-11-3005 min2018-10-0804 min2018-08-2701 min2018-08-1903 min2018-08-0701 minPhynnecabulary4.29.18-Phynnecabulary Has a Guest!An fun,casual chat kind of interview with Brienne K. Tanner, author of PurgeAtory.
2018-04-3025 min2018-04-2205 minPhynnecabulary4.12.18 Phynnecabulary ImpromptuCast: Brianna & AdjaniMusings and late night, and yes, talking while nursing a sinus infection.
2018-04-1305 min2018-04-1103 minPhynnecabularyA Phynnecabulary TeaserPhynne 101 1/2, pleased to make your acquaintance, and all that howdy-do.
2018-04-0902 min