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MastoPrompt

a sound a word a line a phrase

a poem

a jolt to the system; a slow unfold

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Arranging a day as a game Moving pieces – it's never the same with a roll of the die the time will fly and in the morning, we'll start up again

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Software singers and hardware heads

thread code and wires to discover

the sweet spot of something

where nothing once was,

and where nothing once was,

comes something new, instead

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Solidarity sings its own song of rhythm

collective voices bringing us in

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Trace your fingers along my skin, to make a map, and then begin to find the song we might sing

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A small seed settled in soil brings only a vague promise, requiring patience, that might yet deliver a moment of beauty, in time

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Glissando, why don't you, trombone slide your voice into my note as we met

Each word, blended together, as if we spoke this poem in duet

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Poems became the ash of what was left in us when the world fell apart

Spent decades inside this screen and paper, dusty fingers trying to ink together memory, once nearly lost, forever; a heart

knows only what no longer works when parts and pieces collapse, but poets look to plumb the numb, for hurt is the place where a kindled line of wonder and healing might eventually start

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A river's edge, reflected

a tiny pebble, collected

a smooth surface, inspected

a summer memory, detected

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Spin - fidget – spin - my attention is off the charts again and I need distraction in my fingers so I can find a place for my ideas to begin

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