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Melissa Carlson's avatar

With thanks to Deepam, here is my response to the prompt, above:

1. A World Without Division

A world without division means no challenge, no discourse.

No hurt feelings, no joy of discovery.

No coming to terms, only agreement, day after day,

until one day, a crack appears in the ground

and no one remembers how to handle the river that divides.

2. Without the Pause

without the pause culture runs on incoherently as one sentence joins another becoming hard to read because butterflies birds and berries are all one entity that doesn’t know where to stop without the pause from the famous tag line that once said the pause that refreshes there is no refreshment as we swallow the pause rushing on to the next unexamined thing getting more confused and circular as culture goes on destroying anything in it’s path that tries to pause so there is no end in sight and no hope without the pause until one day a crack appears and everything must learn to jump the river that divides

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Barbara-Helen Hill's avatar

An awesome piece of writing. Thank you

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