Perhaps it takes a constellation falling, to remind us where we are

this poem expands beyond the reach; our minds shift to stars

Inspired by #ds106 Lines of Thought Collab Wheel http://bit.ly/linesofthought

You Glide

Glissando sliding along these edges

Squint your eyes to notice the places in the poem

where the liminal converge, the pockets where your words glide

into mine to become ours

Inspired by #ds106 Lines of Thought Collab Wheel http://bit.ly/linesofthought

Wonder rises;

another day, surprises

us, beckons us, calls

for words; for, in this,

we trust the day

to fall our way

together again

Inspired by #ds106 Lines of Thought Collab Wheel http://bit.ly/linesofthought

Will You Knit Our Thoughts Together?

We knit these strands to understand the knots of words inside these lines of angled thoughts and beautiful flight and juxtaposed designs

Inspired by #ds106 Lines of Thought Collab Wheel http://bit.ly/linesofthought

This will be what this will be - what this is – this will be - when poets surface, it will be this

Written while listening to “What Will It Be?”, as composed by Irwin DeVries for #ds106 collaborative poem remix project https://irwindevries.bandcamp.com/track/what-will-it-be

Dream skies crowd our heads with poems

migrating stories waiting for their moment;

The dark starts with a bird, a creature circling currents of continental winds

Composed while listening to “It Starts With a Bird”, as composed by Irwin DeVries for #ds106 collaborative poem remix project

https://irwindevries.bandcamp.com/track/it-starts-with-a-bird

Mirrored Refraction

The way our words bend the light, the way we write deep night, where something of our song still sings inside of us — these roots burrow down

Composed while listening to “To See Ourselves”, as composed by Irwin DeVries for #ds106 collaborative poem remix project

https://irwindevries.bandcamp.com/track/to-see-ourselves

Wings Rhythm Song

And so we wander into a brighter light, following a guitar line and musical thought from verse to voice to chorus to bridge to somewhere, beyond

Composed while listening to Into a Brighter Light, composed by Irwin DeVries for #ds106 collaborative poem remix project

https://irwindevries.bandcamp.com/track/into-a-brighter-light

Leaves left dormant for the long cold season

the soil beneath softens to touch, warm for a reason:

While snow and sleet and cold have come,

this blanket has done its sleeping, and change has begun

for #ds106

There's no way I can POET, friend, in a room full of kids knee-deep in the books, I need to stay 'til the end 'til every one of them looks ready to write a story or poem then I might find a diversion on the long journey home, and join you on POET's Day, so you won't be alone

— for #ds106