Winter's barren promise:

a life, sleeping dormant,

waits patient for the arrival

of Spring

for #mastoprompt

Tension and fissures;

breaking points within corners

where pressure exists

for #mastoprompt

Wired crossings create the hub,

feeding tension in the places

where ideas chafe, and rub

for #mastoprompt

A blue note A bent note A glissando pressed against the stage, a cat stalking the curtained cage

An embellishment An accomplishment A soloist in the spotlight, playing their way into an astonishment at midnight

A soft light A lost night An audience who raved, then went their way, jazz clocks rhythming into moonlight

for #mastoprompt

Repose: a quiet moment in the lee of a bending pine tree, as a westward wind sings a song of solitude

for #mastoprompt

Every platform program has a plan now for a plus-this or a plus-that

for a few extra dollars, a deluxe experience, promised to be had

Which makes us all mad, and a bit sad, since all we want is a story we can fall in

Not an advertising blitz that feels a bit like a brawl in which we've been stuck in

for #mastoprompt

Hidden in holes where tangled vines grow among the stones, the fox den thrives, small tails disappearing as we wander our way past the place they've made their home

for #mastoprompt

Dance, writers, dance, on the tiptoes of your words

lean into the liminal space where stories are poems are plays are art

where every voice inside every word grabs a chance to be heard

for #mastoprompt

We hold hands, human with wondrous intentions, gazing at blue skies

for #mastoprompt and #575prompt

Anonymous pollen of the changing season: Your travels on air - soaring as you do from there to here – place me on alert and make me beware, for sniffles and coughing come soon

for #mastoprompt