Quadrille #68

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Perfectly Brief

There’s a note stuck in the air,
like you might do
with a rose in water.
A note — not bird song,
not a metallic clapper or strings
of cat gut, but a note,
written with crescendo longing.
It’s perfectly brief.
One word: Wink.

  

 
 
Quadrille #68 “Wink

25 responses to “Quadrille #68”

  1. How wonderful, Misky.
    LOVE this, especially:
    “a note,
    written with crescendo longing.”

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    1. Thanks, De, and thanks for the prompt!

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  2. Oh my. This is spectacular. I love how you used the prompted word as well.

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  3. This is perfect, a note don’t need to be anything more…

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  4. I love the image of the note ‘stuck in the air, / like you might do / with a rose in water… written with crescendo longing’. That wink is full of meaning.

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  5. Glenn Buttkus avatar
    Glenn Buttkus

    Brilliant rocking of the prompt; nothing more brief, rife with brevity, than one word, liberty, bigotry, racist, rapist, truth, liar…and the list goes on ad infinitum.

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  6. I love this especially; “a note, written with crescendo longing.” Such a beautiful poem, Misky! ❤️

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  7. Very good. Applause!

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  8. Fun, original and intriguing. Like a wink.

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  9. Nice! Who needs words when one can say so much with just a wink!?

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  10. “written with crescendo longing” – excellent!

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  11. I too love: written with crescendo longing. Nothing else need to be said.

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    1. Thank you! ❤️

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  12. Nice phrase: “crescendo longing”

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  13. i like perfectly brief – some words just have the capacity to say it all and more

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  14. Wow! This is fantastic. “perfectly brief” is the perfect wink!

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  15. I love that the note is stuck in the air. Lovely.

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  16. I really enjoyed the approach of the poem, describing what “it is not” and then being “perfectly brief” to reveal the wink. Love the idea of a note stuck in the air. Oh I can hear and feel that….

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  17. Hi Misky! I enjoyed reading your poem here. Well written, and engaging… and I loved the comparison of wink to a tone… 🙂

    …rob from Image & Verse

    My “wink”

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