Slender paper burning Wisps into the Kansas night Carrying away my memories On thick dank fumes As the last sparks burn out The cold night air rushes back Holding my head tight Squeezing back in my lost thoughts Filling the empty space With all those things forgot In vivid details Found here in evening things thought gone Now returned with deeper perspective
A “found” response to a “lost” poem from Laura’s prompt over at dVerse. I used the poem “Lost in Plain Sight” by Peter Schneider:
“Somewhere recently
I lost my short-term memory.
It was there and then it moved
like the flash of a red fox
My short-term memory
has no address but here
no time but now.
It is a straight-man, waiting to speak
to fill in empty space
with name, date, trivia, punch line.
And then it fails to show….
It is lost, hiding somewhere out back
a dried ragweed stalk on the Kansas Prairie…”
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Musing & Creating with T.J.S. Sherman 
this setting is a very creative response to the poem choice – and some great lines not least:
“With all those things forgot
In vivid details”
p.s. just to let you know there was more to that poem (I only précised it as exemplar)
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/149173/lost-in-plain-sight
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I noticed that after I wrote, though I enjoyed the trail off ellipsis when thinking about something lost, it gave an air of wistfulness to it.
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so true!
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The return of those memories are so vivid in this poem… there is a sense of someone thirsty finally being able to drink.
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Strong write, very engaging for me.
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