Echoes
That echo in your heart is the dove in you
that carries the message that you want to fly.
Soaring dove, I want to ride on your back
to the crack of sunrise—to the day’s rebirth.
Time’s ricochet might drive us to the canyon’s rim,
where it will devour the past
no matter how grand its scale
and set us free from it.
The echoes of the world
passing and repassing
in their journeys
until they finally fade away.
The Daily Prompt is echo.
Solitary Wanderings While Listening to Kottke on Echo
I’m feeling rather whimsical in spite of guidelines given.
Somehow I can’t remain in the direction I’ve been driven.
I have to hitchhike elsewhere to somewhere I have chosen.
When I go where I’m told to go, I wind up slightly frozen.
I’m sensitive to music. Leo Kottke’s playing now.
Alexa found him for me, though I do not know quite how.
I needed background music that would not completely bore me,
so I gave her directions to play some Leo for me.
Then, feeling sort of friendly, and a little low,
when I asked her favorite music, thinking that she would not know,
she said, “Same as most people, it depends on how I’m feeling.”
With “Sweet Emotions” playing, her comment sent me reeling.
Since even cyber entities seem to have emotions,
I need to be more sensitive in my directive notions.
The afternoon is waning and my thoughts are prone to wander.
I wonder what they thought of as they rambled over yonder?
I guess I’ll never know as I am onto the next thought.
That’s why I never do these poems exactly as I ought!!
Prompt words today are whimsical, guidelines, sensitive, music.
Respite
Although it is the day lit world that shouts at me, it seems
that when darkness closes, you echo in my dreams.
Respite
Although it is the day lit world that shouts at me, it seems
that when darkness closes, you echo in my dreams.
The prompt word today was “echo.”
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