lily of the valley
divine cluster of bells
charisma on a stem
its perfume awakens nature
and announces spring's
long awaited homecoming
AP: Honorable Mention 2025
In shadow's tomb—
A dim, aimless flicker...
Void's grip, timeless
claims all.
Fantomsound: life's song is just a cognition in the null.
Rain, pain—
Stardust, dust, flesh
patternless on oblivions loom.
Decay's dance a molderwaltz,
Fingers grasp at phantoms
no hope
Peace in the abyss's open arms. Not…
Unveiled—darkness, despair's shroud
enigma's veil.
Hearts, no soul, toll; unpaid.
Dreams surrendered.
Woe's tale on wastesphere's icy breath.
Void's sigh,
Sun bleeds on the endless fight.
Souls adrift, yearning
churning, burning
Accept, the void's silent
starlit song mute.
From nothing, is nothing, in nothing /
to nothing, for nothing
Fade to black...
MINIMAL ARTICULATION
incoherent elements
oddly prescient
yet
richly detailed
conceptions
unleashed to
reside
then
.anticipate
a subtle fascination
in universal
invention
contemporary
&ongoing
an emotive charge
from the upper
stratum
subtle striations
scant but accurate
formal &
naturally rendered
somewhat
muted
in the faded light
becoming
indistinct
invisible
of time&place
&
depicted
by its absence
THIS IS AN OPEN(organic) FORM VERSE without grammatical symbols the ' open' relies upon 'the one breath limitation' & so inherently requires the 'reader' (reciter) to input and respond thus making the form a two way interplay and often a unique interpretation by the enigma so derived
Words fall from the noisy sky -- dissolve into the silent blur of the past
The blind man visited you
With the help of his stick…
You let him in.
When he left you found out that
Your wallet has gone…
Well chosen
a thousand pictures
turn on a word
12/16/18
Composed for
Cecelia Hopkins-Drewer's
Minimalism Poetry Contest
Brian Strand's
May 2019 Premier 5
4th Place
exemplar
and avatar
idiosyncretique
avant garde
eccentric-
minimal meditations
between still points
I'm really quite fortunate, had a good life
Considered myself blessed, had two sweet wifes
Don't like to brag
But I walk with a swag
Been pretty damn lucky with minimal strife
© Jack Ellison 2015
Animals prairie wise
Nocturnal ends meaning
sleeping. blasting sun..'
A
simple
enigma-
upon a blank
sheet
Minimilist work of Joan Baer
http://www.jobaer.net/paintframe.html
White Vertical, Blue Line (from a set of four, series of 16)