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I catch a distant melody; a single note lingers on the wind

For one brief moment, the small hummingbird hovered and then disappeared

I'm often wandering through the words of poets, sneaking small pockets of ideas, stealing seeds for sprouts, holding out hope on how poems emerge from dirt tilled by others; take a breath, blow, and let dandelions flow

for #OpenWrite

Suddenly In Bloom

You merely blinked and then it was as if the switch, flicked; the flowers bloomed

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This becomes that and that becomes this, but which is the what and what is the which, and where is the when, for when a look becomes that, and that becomes this – is it then that this glance becomes kiss?

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Every so often I think I hear the sound of a Whiffle ball on bat – imagine that — there's nothing there — only the memory of a run-down, rutted path the boys once made on the backyard grass, and even that has disappeared, more and more every year, so that my wife and I are the only ones left to bear witness at the state of play, — standing at the window, remembering — years away from the cries of each home run hit with a blast, the whistling ball sailing over the fence into the neighbor's yard, sneakers falling off small feet as they beat a race, sliding, diving into home plate - the dog watching the show with his ticket stub bone

On a budding branch, a red cardinal alights in a sea of green

for Algot

Ode To A River Current

Knitted along the edge where running water caresses sand, we stand here, quiet, listening, imagining ways in which days fold in, forever looping, linking, patterned inside the sounds of a fixed flow, never broken but for brief moments of falling

for #OpenWrite

Every sort of idea ignites the page,

astonishes the writer , as much as reader;

A poet is compelled to uncover a poem

framed as something new, something true,

But while we crave original, we listen for the echoes

for #OpenWrite with this random word list: ignite astonish compel frame crave

Start with a greeting - more formal than friendly – and then a few notes to hum alongside with (maybe be in a minor key) – but the start of something longer belongs better in a letter, not converted into music manuscript, or else you'll be resigned to never being finished, for words elude you: this cover letter languishes

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