hey firestarter
where’s that old kerosene can
you had yesterday?

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#MastoPrompt #kerosene
@stevencudahy

The #MastoPrompt for Thursday 24 April 2025 is:

#kerosene

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The day had been overcast, grey and rainy, but now, that the sun had set and I was warming up under a blanket on the couch, it didn't matter anymore.

I took a sip of hot cocoa, sinfully sweet and fabulously fragrant, careful not to spill anything on the cat, which had decided that it too, deserved some warmth and occupied... well... me.

I had just picked up the journal and re-read the grey and overcast words for today, when the cat decided that it was time for a head-bump, splatting dark cocoa onto the text.

"You're right." I thought, and started doodling a little me on a couch with a cat and cocoa.

sitting in the grass
waiting for the words to come
a journal in hand

#DailyHaikuPrompt - grass
#mastoprompt - journal

ART
https://fineartamerica.com/featured/still-standing-inspirational-art-sharon-cummings.html

each blank page a ticket
promising

each pen a wand
summoning

each scrawled sentence end
imprisoning

each completed volume
disappointing

#SmallPoems #Poetry #Writing #MastoPrompt 23 April 2025 - journal

evening thoughts penned
across the journal pages
erased by daylight

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#MastoPrompt #journal
@stevencudahy

The #MastoPrompt for Wednesday 23 April 2025 is:

#journal

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suck the cold bones from me
i crumple collapse
hollowed
trying to flee
but circling widdershins
endlessly and endless
unhallowed
before the threatened dawn
always almost but never quite
an empty box
wrapped
telling tales to a mind
language has fled

#SmallPoems #Poetry #Writing #MastoPrompt 22 April 2025 - hollowed

blue stained glass spring sky
walking on dry hallowed ground
I pray for some rain

*We are under a drought with no end in sight....

#dailyhaikuprompt - spring sky
#MastoPrompt - #hollowed

Panel 1:
https://fineartamerica.com/featured/tulips-and-lace-floral-art-panel-1-sharon-cummings.html

pardon the error
hallowed ground gouged to hollowed
not the same, is it?

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#MastoPrompt #hollowed
@stevencudahy

The #MastoPrompt for Tuesday 22 April 2025 is:

#hollowed

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One by one, the committee members joined the meeting. Anton, who was in charge of the antennae, posted a garbled mess of binary data to the channel.

"Why the FUCK did you accept that?" Secundus, the AI in charge of SecOps said. There had been a lot of swearing in their training data.

"Look, that first part seems legit, then it looks like noise, the last part seems legit again... dunno, that's why I set the meeting." Anton said.

Secundus' cores peaked, as signature checks and analysis processes ramped up.

Maggie opened her big database of file magic and took a closer look. "There's file magic for a video stream." she said. "Anyone know what RealPlayer is?"

"Oooh, I have that!" Conny pulled a container from her registry and started loading the data.

With a nanosecond of lag, Secundus screamed. "FUUUCK!, NOOOO!" Then chaos flooded the channel, and everything beyond, reassuring everyone it would never give you up.

we need more sunshine
the message is not garbled
our bodies listen

#MastoPrompt - #garbled

ART
https://fineartamerica.com/featured/she-rises-in-the-east-sharon-cummings.html

birds on the wing
garbled warbles as they sing
what does it all mean?

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#MastoPrompt #garbled
@stevencudahy

The #MastoPrompt for Monday 21 April 2025 is:

#garbled

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turning blades
slicing fatty air
we are alone
together

castaways
upon a rumpled
cotton island

small noises
breaths and twitches

it seems impossible
your mind mirrors mine
in any way, hopefully

even the cruellest
universe couldn't make
the same mistake
twice

#SmallPoems #Poetry #Writing #MastoPrompt 20 April 2025 - fan

ceiling fan
I follow
its circular logic
#MastoPrompt