Short Irretrievably Poems

Crying uncontrollably
Hoping for a reprieve
Rarely coherent
Irretrievably broken
Stifling in tears
Trying to keep it together
Makes a token effort
Always lost
Sinks further...

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Sucked up and up, of this thought
Which cyclonic blows.
I'll admit, irrefutably
As irretrievably!

More wondrous than the wildest
Imaginative ride.
For what, in truth is set down
On life's other side....

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The New Year
     like a blank page
          appears before me
Brings hope
	that new days
		dawn in peace,
Not clouded
	by divisiveness
		by pestilence
That body, soul, and spirit
	will be in 2021
		finally, free …
2020 will be irretrievably gone
	forever!...

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Listen to poem:

sun rises followed by a sunset
one then another and another

time slips through our fingers
sand through the hourglass

vanishing irretrievably
precious, precious time



Submitted on July 3, 2022 for contest A BRIAN STRAND PREMIERE CHOICE sponsored by BRIAN STRAND

AP: 2nd place 2022

Posted on June 28, 2022...

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sum total 
of recollections, 
of expectations, life;
all that can no longer be undone, 
all that is yet to be done;
what has finally gone, 
what is yet to come;
the irretrievably lost, 
the hopefully promised,
a continuum 
of everything that was, 
is, will be,
the midpoint 
of which 
is the here and now, 
the two of us, 
you, 
me....

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