Lichen in the cliff crevasse
A seed in need of shelter
All things need to brace against others
For #mastoprompt
Lichen in the cliff crevasse
A seed in need of shelter
All things need to brace against others
For #mastoprompt
Age has taken his step – the old dog walks slow - minimal distance but still, always excited about the possibilities, the leash a signal for adventure of the nose
for #mastoprompt
Repeat the beat
Kick Drum Bass Drum Snare Drum Crash
Kick Drum Bass Drum Snare Drum Crash
keep it on the beat, then repeat
the audience responds by jumping up
out of their seats, dancing on the souls of their feet
Kick Drum Bass Drum Snare Drum Crash
for #mastoprompt
Watching wind shaking trees to the roots and shuddering
the last vestiges of yesterday's storm into falling,
we're attentive to the lapse in time – the way tomorrow's calling its way
into the sounds of today
for #mastoprompt
On watching Louis Armstrong: Black and Blues
Such a conflicted icon of another era, the smiling, talented, public persona of a Black jazz revolutionary out of New Orleans in an era of racism
And it was left to Ossie Davis, actor, to share a fragile Satchmo, in silence, a man huddled in shadows with a trumpet cradled in his arms, the pain of a divided nation playing out against shuttered eyes, watered with tears
“and I never laughed at him again,” Davis says.
for #mastoprompt
What an angelic voice rising up above the loft - a crystal Christmas gift of song; how soft, the sound, as she draws us in; we close our eyes – we take a breath - we find an entry to join on in
for #mastoprompt
Edging ever closer to eve,
filled with wonderings of what
we can accept, with grace,
and what, of us, we might leave
for #mastoprompt
Oh, yes, please, have a laugh -
the sound you make is a telegraph of shared wonder and of mirth
a connecting note in the soundtrack of joy playing across your face -
I lean against the resonance of the fragility of this, our planet Earth
for #mastoprompt
Paper cuts where broken stories bend
the fix is to find a bandage again
to heal the words still falling apart
then tuck the book inside your heart
for #mastoprompt
Nothing is ever as imminent as tomorrow, for on the heels of today's coming and going, the next day after this breathes new possibilities into whatever stalled you in the moment - each opportunity to start anew requires hope and faith that where this shadow fell, so too, beacons a hint of light
for #mastoprompt