Not

And now, without further ado, our optional daily prompt, once again pulled from our archives. Today’s prompt is a poem of negation – yes (or maybe, no), I challenge you to write a poem that involves describing something in terms of what it is not, or not like. For example, if you chose a whale as the topic of your poem, you might have lines like “It does not settle down in trees at night, cooing/Nor will it fit in your hand.”

'Not' it terms of what it is not:

A surging feeling of connection

Strands of time being woven together
leaving nothing behind

Multiples contained in one

Contradictionless

Coffee with both milk and cream
A bagel with everything on it.

An orchestra of naysayers
Playing together in beautiful
dissonance

A girl, no longer frightened
Saying Yes
And moving across the world

A new life