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Title:       Not
Date:        2023-04-16
Link:        https://spool-five.com/poetry/2023_apr16_not/
Word Count:  147
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> 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