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Dust Ball – by Heather Mirassou

Well I am too LATE to submit for the prompt. But, here is my Quatrain, 12 line poem.

I roll across the floor without a command,
I catch what drifts, accept what lands.
I move when pushed, I stay when still,
I gather weight without a will.

I spin through corners, rest in light,
I shrink and grow without delight.
No thought informs the shape I take,
I simply am, for movements sake.
I settle under tables, drift near walls,
I answer neither reason nor calls.
I exist without start or end,
I am a thing, alone, unpenned.









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9 responses to “Dust Ball – by Heather Mirassou”

  1. Ephemeral Encounters Avatar

    Love this Hearher.

    1. Heather Mirassou Avatar

      You are awesome my fellow poet.

      1. Ephemeral Encounters Avatar

        So are you Heather.
        And, thank you 🙏

  2. D. H. Jervis Avatar

    It has lovely, natural rhythm Heather. To feel that pause in noticing the mundane is a pleasure.

    1. Heather Mirassou Avatar

      Thank you Dom.

  3. Ritva Sillanmäki Photography Avatar

    Heather, I don’t totally understand this but I like it.

    1. Heather Mirassou Avatar

      It is a poem to a challenge about the mundane, an object. A 12 line poem, Quatrain containing written in the first person. It should have no emotions and no transformations. No life lessons and no sentiment. It is only an object. Like lint from a dryer, a brick, a block and a screw.Thank you for taking the time to read it and comment on it.

  4. Heather Mirassou Avatar

    Thank you so much David.

  5. ben Alexander Avatar


    Love this, Heather — the voice is so easy and natural. That line about “shrinks and grows without delight” really stuck with me. You made this little dust ball feel unexpectedly alive!


    ~David

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