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No Strings Attached: A Quadrille

Written for dVerse Quadrille – Sing It!
Our host, De, asks us to write a poem
in 44 words using a form of “sing”.

Image by Me & Nano Banana

Across the room, your glance arrived ….
a spark, a sudden chord.
My quiet heart, so long asleep
woke trembling, struck, restored.

The silence I had called my life
now hums with golden sound;
one look, and every string inside
sings, and I am found.

NAR©2026
44 Words

This is “Zing! Went the Strings of My Heart” by Frank Sinatra

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