The Gaptangle · @Gaptangle
129 followers · 2763 posts · Server dragonscave.space

Not sure whether to post it...

Long.

Gradually slipping sideways through days, I tiptoe between seconds, holding my breath. A step wrong, a hand held wrong, a voice pitched just off and everything, everything is going to break. There's an elemental inside my bones and it's kicking relentlessly, determined to get out. I know, I tell it. I am searching for a place where you are safe. I have to shrug out of the clock to do this. Breathe at the edges of things.
Daylight spreads gradually and I take fleeting moments of morning to call the light. I need to stop the flood, I say. I need to keep the dam intact. I can hear the outlines around me. I feel like I can hear it when they jangle because of me but I don't know.
Gradually I can unfold. Not all at once, and careful at first. To stretch, kneel, lift, stay upright. It's not just a thing of slowness but of cadence. Balance. Often, quiet.
When the sun recedes I call the night. I need to keep it safe, I say. The first thing it's going to do is hurtle headlong in panic, get hurt and who knows who else. I need stillness and a cloak. Slow at first. Llooking around, catching the edge of the light.
Timelyssly twilight greets me, our old friend, one who gave us shelter and freedom, the last environment we could see clearly in, many of us live there as much as we can, praise it and make art for it. Give this one room to run, I ask it. The point I circle back to, the only home for someone who doesn't know what home is. I have held on too long and I was trying to carry you from the cliff you'd been stranded on and only scared you in the process. And the one left I could think to ask was
You deserved more than this, more than tumbling into a tangle of rusty metal, for more than someone squeezing the life out of you, for more than a silent terrified end curled in a ball somewhere, forgotten.

#MastoPrompt #gradual

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Tanweer Dar (Tan) · @tanweerdar
995 followers · 2106 posts · Server mstdn.social

Moving forward
Step by step
progress
The best kind

#Poetry #smallpoems #MastoPrompt #gradual

Last updated 1 year ago

Annie · @theappletree
689 followers · 2486 posts · Server ruhr.social

Gradual hope

People, step by step,
Understand that they cannot
escape climate change

Mankind, soon or late
Will learn to communicate
About this crisis

Humans, without doubt
Will face their feelings of fear
And find better ways

Survival, of course
Has a new dimension now
But we will face it.

#MastoPrompt #gradual #climateemergency #climatediary #poetry #amwriting #writingcommunity

Last updated 1 year ago

Johana · @j3b
47 followers · 278 posts · Server mastodon.sdf.org

“The way is certainly both short and steep, / However it looks from here; / Look if you like, but you will have to leap.”

W.H. Auden

This quote opens 's children's novel of universal appeal .

#gradual #MastoPrompt #russellhoban #themouseandhischild

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Marjolein Rotsteeg · @MarjoleinRotsteeg
628 followers · 5491 posts · Server mastodon.nl
Stefanie Neumann · @KokopelliBFree
89 followers · 1381 posts · Server ohai.social

|ly, I move to higher grounds. From afar, hell looks like a . For a moment, I , could I have controlled its ? Then, my inner takes my hand and walks me to the |ing field ... on.


#gradual #glen #riddle #chaos #child #flower #mastoprompt #vssnature #rise365 #brknshards #whistpr #vss365 #writingcommunity

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juma · @juma
75 followers · 1345 posts · Server mas.to

change can take its time
with a gradual shifting
of all the senses

#575

@tanweerdar

#gradual #MastoPrompt #poetry #writingcommunity #writing #haiku

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Tanweer Dar (Tan) · @tanweerdar
995 followers · 2106 posts · Server mstdn.social

The for Thursday 29th June 2023 is:

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

#SmallStories #MicroFiction #Poetry #smallpoems #gradual #MastoPrompt

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ParkHealth · @ParkHealth
4 followers · 688 posts · Server mstdn.science
ParkHealth · @ParkHealth
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WordofTheHour · @wordofthehour
2228 followers · 34227 posts · Server botsin.space

: advancing, step by step, as in ascent or descent or from one state to another

- French: graduel

- Italian: graduale

- Portuguese: gradual

- Spanish: gradual

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#gradual

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Starry Starry Knight · @Space6host
124 followers · 2248 posts · Server freeradical.zone
Carmelite Quotes · @carmelitequotes
205 followers · 798 posts · Server mastodon.online

On St Stephen's feast day, St Edith Stein pauses to write to a former student; she explains the vocation “to suffer with Christ and thereby to cooperate with him in his work of salvation.”

Read her letter:
carmelitequotes.blog/2022/12/2

#quotes #carmelite #catholic #gradual #italian #art #illumination #manuscript #martyr #deacon #ststephen #stedithstein

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WordofTheHour · @wordofthehour
1993 followers · 31366 posts · Server botsin.space

: advancing, step by step, as in ascent or descent or from one state to another

- French: graduel

- Italian: graduale

- Portuguese: gradual

- Spanish: gradual

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Join our new subreddit for language learners @ reddit.com/r/LearnANewLanguage

#gradual

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Gradual Reform :verified: · @DHGRI
49 followers · 21 posts · Server brands.town

@ThermiteBeGiants great example of !

#gradual #change

Last updated 2 years ago

Chuixiang (Tree) Yi · @TreeYi
5 followers · 525 posts · Server mastodon.world

RT @BlaiVidiella
@RSocPublishing @IBE_Barcelona @Cambridge_Uni @UTKnoxville @TAMUSanAntonio If you are interested in this work entitled "A cultural theory that explains both and change", you can read our threads at:
@svalver: twitter.com/svalver/status/159
@BlaiVidiella : twitter.com/BlaiVidiella/statu

#evolutionary #gradual #punctuated

Last updated 2 years ago

Bojan · @bojan
69 followers · 91 posts · Server fosstodon.org

Just watched youtube.com/watch?v=fmF7HpU_-9 and I'm extremely tempted to make Rust gradual using linters.

For example, the "rust for newbs" linter can notice you wrote a struct that holds references and go "Take it easy, that's advanced! You'll have a bad time. Consider owning the thing or using Rc/Arc. Clone if you need to."

Thoughts? -programming

#rust #gradual

Last updated 2 years ago