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# Ptero Dactyl
- URL: https://www.hawkword.com/poetry/ptero-dactyl/
- Published: 2024-12-09T12:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2024-12-09T12:00:00.000Z
- Description: Vanishing syllables moving across in formation trying to march to a rhythm while keeping the blues Playing their parts, some are stressed, as befitting their station, some, nonchalant, couldn’t care less, use any excuse.
- Author: A. Gee
- Tags: Poetry, Allpoetry Import, #Import 2026-04-25 19:56

Vanishing syllables moving across in formation  
trying to march to a rhythm while keeping the blues  
Playing their parts, some are stressed, as befitting their station,  
some, nonchalant, couldn’t care less, use any excuse.

Be it a limerick, ballad, rondeau, or a sonnet  
Writ for a lover, a penny, or just on a lark,  
dwell on it, polish it, pray to it, worship upon it.  
Nurture it, carefully blowing to kindle its spark.

Do not despair when the words hit a bump or a stumble,  
or if your inkwell refuses, the ink running dry.  
Failure’s a start, a prerequisite. It’s a preamble,  
but to succeed, the cliche says that first, you must try.