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The First Slipped By

For Looking Back, Looking Forward: A Mikeydred January Dollar Prompt For All Vocal Creators and Heather Hubler's endings & beginnings prompts and challenges.

By Paul StewartPublished 2 years ago • 1 min read
The First Slipped By
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The month of looking back and forward

what's gone before, shadows, inflects

what's still to come, on yonder

can't unpick the past's thread

only stitch ahead

lesson's learned

goals set from

1st...wait its

past

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Author's Notes: This is for both, Mike Singleton's Looking Back, Looking Forward: A Mikeydred January Dollar Prompt For All Vocal Creators and Heather Hubler's endings & beginnings . You can find out more about these challenges below:

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Paul Stewart

Award-Winning Writer, Poet, Scottish-Italian, Subversive.

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