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I wasn’t looking for wonder ...

from I Did Not Notice The Birds by Michael Sun https://moistpoetryjournal.com/2021/04/19/i-did-not-notice-the-birds/

Gaps in the day as memory runs free – I am only now remembering, the music of wind, of bugs, of birds, of leaves – they're all strumming chords in my ear, my night pillow pulsing in rhythm to things, today, I failed to see

A pad of paper, overflowing with the possible, blue lines remaining blank, a canvas of nothing soon to become something

for #MastoPrompt

A simple nod to acknowledge the words

a subtle acquiescence

for #MastoPrompt

Such small treasures — the edge of a ink on paper the first burst of sunlight the explosion of quiet ideas the unfolding of a song — bring life's pleasures

for #MastoPrompt

Joe, GI, kept his world to himself, his head knocked off by a fall from the shelf

Joe's hands, replaced backwards after a tragic twist of fate, couldn't grip a gun,

but in some remixed world, Joe and Barbie, and maybe Ken, might have had a bit of fun

for #OpenWrite

She dove into her closet to find the dress she adores -

an kaleidoscope of colors she'd never wear outdoors

for #MastoPrompt

Not even we thought we would win

but every streak begins with hope

for #OpenWrite

Between the hammer and the nail, the judge decrees the verdict, slams the gravel, then sends him off to jail

for #MastoPrompt

Hop On Pop and its nonsensical Seuss-ian verse and rhyme was the first time I ever read a book on my own, and in our home, reading books was a cherished time, the quiet often descending after dinner, but for the turning of the page

for #OpenWrite

A rustling song of small, worrying footsteps; we listen, slowly

for Algot