The #MastoPrompt for Tuesday 12th September is:

#translate

The poem or story can include the prompt word or be about the prompt word.

#SmallPoems #Poetry #MicroFiction #SmallStories

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negative zero
and negative NAN
violating expectations
like only bad numbers can
comparisons have
twisted meanings
in this land

#poetry
#NAN
#float

The #MastoPrompt for Monday 11th September is:

#absent

The poem or story can include the prompt word or be about the prompt word.

#SmallPoems #Poetry #MicroFiction #SmallStories

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Burnt yellow

Where does love stop and abuse begin
Where does patience come to an end

When do tiny points of pressure pushed
Build to pain too hard to bear

When does thought end for others
When does it focus sharp on self

When does frustration lead
To, Inevitable thoughts of rain

When does love prevent retribution
To others careless harm

When does love lead to retribution
Against the harmed

When does pain ease the suffering
When does suffering ease the pain

When does sudden action
Result in colours dark, masking colours bright

When do colours fade
To prove that you won the fight.

When do tattoos black, blue and burnt yellow
Prove, human hearts endurance failed.

#poetry #poem #writing #TimThePoetSquirrel #today
#TheMammutMoves

3 things about Errol Morris’s THE B-SIDE: ELSA DORFMAN’S PORTRAIT PHOTOGRAPHY [2016]

1. Poets dropping by the office regularly to use the free copier.
2. Borrowing a shopping cart for extended periods of time to display her wares.
3. A final answering machine message from Allen Ginsberg.

#3things #AllenGinsberg #art #documentaries #errolmorris #photography #poetry #cinema #cinemastodon

The #MastoPrompt for Sunday 10th September is:

#broadcast

The poem or story can include the prompt word or be about the prompt word.

#SmallPoems #Poetry #MicroFiction #SmallStories

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And in the event that love breaks you, let it break....

#poetry #SpokenWord

Miles Carter - If you decide to love someone....

https://youtu.be/mR6RUVoj_4k?si=ENc9joEwh76gaiaZ

The marketing language that dominates descriptions of human interaction in a capitalist economy obscures a much deeper understanding of the gift character of all that is, and our familial relationship to all of life and especially to each other.

-Marilyn Chandler McEntyre, "Caring for Words in a Culture of Lies"

#Politics #Culture #Capitalism #Literature #Poetry #Christianity #Theology #ChristianHumanism

Think about the kinds of language abuse to which we have become accustomed—perhaps so accustomed that we cease to be offended by them: thoughtless hyperbole, unexamined metaphors, slogans and sound bites, grammatical confusion, ungrounded abstractions, overstatement, and blather.

-Marilyn Chandler McEntyre, "Caring for Words in a Culture of Lies"

#Politics #Culture #Capitalism #Literature #Poetry

U.S. Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Alabama) is against #poetry, an American military tradition.

https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/defend-blockade-tuberville-points-poems-aircraft-carriers-rcna104047

The #MastoPrompt for Saturday 9th September is:

#stubborn

The poem or story can include the prompt word or be about the prompt word.

#SmallPoems #Poetry #MicroFiction #SmallStories

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My Mustache, by Eric Gordon

My mustache keeps me company, on the hot and dusty trails
It’s my mustache keeps me company, riding the lonesome rails
My mustache feels no jealousy, my mustache don’t keep score
It laughs at all my jokes, never thinks that I’m a bore
My mustache is my confidant, my one and only friend
My mustache keeps me company, ’til the bitter end

#poetry #poems #mustaches
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It's almost here! We finished work on getting my new book "One Tree in Hell; A Poetry Collection" ready. Everything looks great online, so now we are waiting on the proof copy to show up in a couple of days. As long as the proof looks good, I will be moving forward with publishing the book! Super excited to be getting this one out there! Cannot wait for you to read it! #Writing #Writers #Poetry #Poem #Poet #WritingCommunity #Book

The #MastoPrompt for Friday 8th September is:

#sequence

The poem or story can include the prompt word or be about the prompt word.

#SmallPoems #Poetry #MicroFiction #SmallStories

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Queries to Literaries, a #limerick

Submitting all day from my hovel,
Agents rejecting my novel
I put pride aside
Die a little inside
Send more queries, more excepts and grovel

#poem #shortpoem #poetry #writing #writingpoetry #amwriting #iamwriting #agents #literaryagent #publishing #writer

tried to draw
a dinosaur
it grew an extra
leg or three
I swear
I never touch
that AI crap
but what else
is everyone
supposed to think?
whatever will
become of me
and my dinosaur
so deformed
and so ugly

#poetry
#dinosaur
#draw

The #MastoPrompt for Thursday 7th September is:

#collar

The poem or story can include the prompt word or be about the prompt word.

#SmallPoems #Poetry #MicroFiction #SmallStories

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found a lonely button
on the street
told it
I'd sew it on
something simple
just for me
forgot it
in my pocket
for a week
found it
doing laundry
moved it
to my keyboard
where I thought
it would rattle
to remind me
there it sat
next to the tab key
for maybe
a year or three

#poetry
#button
#sewing

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Dark #poetry meets #ambient synthesis.

sunflower blooms, by
the edge of the Gulf, last week's
storm could not break her.

#haiku #poetry #photography #poem #amwriting #florida #gulfcoast