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We are living in the digital world, covered in the autonomous aspects & tracked motions of life. Yet, somehow we are losing some critical elements. Keyboards, touchpads, & speech-to-text are there, but we believe that handwritten words on paper is still meaningful to some poets.

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Paper Poetry’s June 2025 prompt

Wellbeing Be Well

And a broad beacon of hope

5 min readJun 1, 2025

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An AI-generated image of the silhouette of a man walking down a ramp into the ocean while ahead of him is a flock of birds and in the sky a radiant light surrounded by planets, stars, clouds and mystical symbols.
AI-generated art by author using Bing Image Creator — source

Wellbeing be well
Cataracts of doom be damned
Light delivers hope

Greetings to our Paper Poetry friends,

Welcome to June! JUNE!! Can you believe it? The year is zipping by at a rate of knots that’s impossible to fathom, let alone keep up with. Perish the thought of trying to control it. Time will have its way — the universe will continue to spin — and we will spin along with it…or spiral willy-nilly into an unknown oblivion…

Whoa! Let’s stop right there!

cataracts of doom be damned!

Let’s try that again…

light delivers hope

and with it a sense of wellbeing that all will be well in the end. 🌟

On the way to achieving that end, we inevitably make sacrifices which coincidentally was the theme of our May prompt. We are ever so grateful to the poets who contributed — sacrificed — their time, energy, and abundant creativity to respond to the prompt with such heart, soul and enthusiasm. Please sacrifice some of your own time to read their stories —

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Paper Poetry
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We are living in the digital world, covered in the autonomous aspects & tracked motions of life. Yet, somehow we are losing some critical elements. Keyboards, touchpads, & speech-to-text are there, but we believe that handwritten words on paper is still meaningful to some poets.

Carolyn Hastings
Carolyn Hastings

Written by Carolyn Hastings

Well-practiced speech pathologist now practicing to be a children’s book writer — emphasis on practicing.

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