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mastoprompt

The morning’s window songs become something enchanting, the bird choir singing the day into light

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She hands me the note, and I play it, for what’s more magical than making the music she sat down, with pencil and paper, and wrote

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Even unplugged, you remain a live wire, an electric eel artist playing at the edges - the one who always feels the pulse of paint on paper, the breaker of circuits

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It’s a wonder at the ways so many of our words seem to lean up against dull, that slacker cousin of the vibrant, the invisible, hiding in-between the hue of rainbows where well-worn rust gathers rather than gold, where we watch the young in motion while pondering the old

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Fire, the kids say, and they don’t mean the heat

they mean, Fire, as in something so cool, nothing competes

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A maelstrom of ideas is what pauses the poet before a blank slate

this storm hesitates, for the calm, an eye for the words that just can’t wait

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She traces shadows in lines of each and every face

the ink-stained pages of an artist’s loving embrace

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The gears of the world grind us – the injustice of the world, blinds us - the shape of our deeds finds us hoping for something better each and every morning

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Resist the urge to pluck every maddening dandelion up by its roots

before their yellow blooming suns have really begun -

have patience – for these bees need the time, and the day is still young

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All of us carry pieces of it from there to here

some irrational fear

an intangible object that can't or won't or refuses to disappear

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