#MastoPrompt 2022-12-30 & 31

The #last rays of the sun shone through the #crevice making the light dance on the surface of a puddle.

She loved these moments of beauty showing up like a miracle in places where you'd least expect them.

She took another deep breath and braced herself for the storm to come.

Approaching the headwall he saw the feature which gave this hike its name: the entrance to a massive crack in the stone.

Entering the #crevice he saw a band of blue sky above, a rill of water trickling past his feet below.

This place was its own world, of cool water and moss and granite. He watched as a dragonfly flitted past. “Hello!” he shouted, listening to his voice echo off the sheer walls.

“Hello!” a voice answered back. A voice not his own.

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@tanweerdar
I reached into the #crevice
Pulled out a bit of plastic
And muttered underneath my breath
"This is just fantastic"
I tried to move some drives around
To rearrange my kit
When I unplugged the SATA cable
Part of the drive came with it
So I bought an adapter
To make it work like new
But when I pulled the cable out
The same keyed bit came too
I fished out the plastic bit
Cut the cable in two
Got myself a new cable
And attached it with hot glue

#MastoPrompt #Poetry #SmallPoems

I watched it scuttle away and crawl inside a #crevice, and I wondered, what was it thinking? Did it even 'think' as humans understood thinking?

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#SmallStories
#MicroFiction

toe, crevice, toe
slip knee
hip fall
arm sprawl
down
avalanche
down
body boulder
roll
twig snap
jab-slap
rock rude
redressing
snow
a great shush
a roar
a harrow
single misstep
and you, too
can be prostrate
foot of a mountain

#poetry #MastoPrompt #crevice #poem #MicroPoetry #amwriting

I miss
the hand
that held me
in the crevice
But my
folded limbs
grew long
and scraped
the rocks
And glimpses
through
the dark
were never
enough

#MastoPrompt #poetry #crevice

We couldn't think from where the spiders
came to dusty-web us. Ignored the #crevice
as too small, too slight, unthreatening.
We worked around, across, while it grew wider,

weather worn, time worn, it soon amassed
a gloomy depth. Our reach became too little
to bridge it. We lost our shared centre,
lost sight of who we were across that crevasse.

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Thanks @tanweerdar

(Apologies, I couldn't resist the wordplay.)

One beam of light
A break in the expanse
A chink in the armour
Showing the way in
A map with an arrow
Pointing to my darkest
Weaknesses
My flaws, my breaks
Hiding in the crevices
Out of sight

Photography by Riaad Algarei
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In a crevice of my heart,
Where the light can never reach,
Lies a sadness that I can't impart,
A melancholy that I can't beseech.

I try to hide it, I try to run,
But it follows me wherever I go,
It's a burden that weighs a ton,
A sorrow that I cannot show.

The crevice in my mind,
A place of endless night,
Where all my hopes and dreams,
Are lost without a fight.

#SmallPoems #Poetry #crevice #MastoPrompt #PoetryPrompt

Goodness knows I've tried, but the constant effort that is never reciprocated or appreciated is really exhausting. But I couldn't give up on him.

I wouldn't

All we seemed to do is quarrel and it only took the slightest thing to set him off. I felt like I was walking on eggshells, unsure what mood I would be confronted with, the slightest look triggering an outburst that was often vitriolic and soul destroying.

I knew something wasn't right, my instincts were usually quite intuitive. Every time I peeked into the crevice, all I could see was someone cowering in the shadows. His Dad was long gone, a deadbeat who'd left his mother and had zero interest in being involved in his life.

I stepped into that role, after I fell in love with his mother and I vowed that I would be his biggest ally, no matter the emotional toll that it would take on me. I tried to shelter his mum, protect her as she'd had a tumultuous life and deserved to be loved and cared for. But she was broken, barely keeping it together.

He'd fallen in with a bad crew, and I knew that if could break this we'd have a chance. Little did I know that it would be me he would come to in his time of need.

One night, I waited until the early hours when he finally arrived home. Usually, he'd ignore me but this night he sat down in the couch. His eyes were red and puffy.

Out of nowhere he burst into tears.

"I need help. I can't do this anymore."

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#Crevice

#Crevice

Somewhere
in the crevices of my mind
there is something I was supposed to remember
staring at the cracks and crevices of my hands
I recall crevices
I have quietly slipped into
Fissures I could have avoided
Cracks I should have filled
I wander, wondering, what was it?
As I slip,
and fall into the depth
I remember,
it was a crevasse, not a crevice.

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#Crevices
.
The crevice of a furrowed brow,
earned from deep concern.
Wondering how to make ends meet,
concerned to little earned.
.
Force a smile on Christmas Day,
a shield from jack frost.
A smile to hide the hidden cost,
to hide the magic lost.
.
With Christmas done, the fun begun,
checking crevices for cash.
We made our choice to have our fun,
and would not take it back.
.
It’s fair to say we had to choose,
because choosing what we do.
Not enough and this or that,
is really nothing new.
.
We do our best, we’ve done our best,
that is just our way.
But so much for a smiling day,
seems a lot to pay.
.
#poetry #Poem
#MastoPrompt #Crevice
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Breasts
You lying there
Naked
Wonderfully so
Innocent as you languish
Crevice
Exposed
Naked
Tantalising so
Beguiling as you move
Eyes
Open
Naked
Provocatively so
Catching the light as you move
And I falling
Naked
Enraptured so
Encaptured as we move

#MastoPrompt #poem #poetry #crevice

Left leg, right leg.
Left leg, right leg.
Hopping from one side of the broken pavement to the other, a frown of concentration etched into his five-year-old forehead.

Left leg, right leg.
This was serious stuff.
After all, if he got this wrong, if he didn’t avoid the crevice in the concrete, the quiet would stop and the bombs would fall again.

Because war doesn’t happen for no good reason.

#MicroFiction #MastoPrompt #Crevice
#PeaceForUkraine
📷 Ahmed Zalabany/Unsplash

The #MastoPrompt for Friday 30th December is:

#crevice

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

#SmallPoems #Poetry #MicroFiction #SmallStories

you come to tha wrong hood...

#crab #sup #crevice #animatedgif

you come to tha wrong hood...

#crab #sup #crevice #animatedgif

you come to tha wrong hood...

#crab #sup #crevice #animatedgif