elements
of
a whole
different
each time
played
recorded
impressed
or
created
improvised
ideas
thoughts
of the moment
unique
unrepeatable
aleatory
features
improvised
fragments
to introduce
variability
of
short patterns
without
coordination
a blur
of
possibilities
on
a
roundabout
of chance
Categories:
unrepeatable, art, music,
Form: Didactic
Through the seasons in your life
What matters changes
In first flush of youth
Scholarly accolades count
Belonging in your social circle
The right trainers and hoodie
Maturity shifts needs and priorities
A good job,
Nice home, new car
Two point four children
A holiday in the sun
With greying temples
New desires dawn,
Focus changes
A slower burn
Less immediate
Horizons pushed farther
Appreciating each day
Of life and love
And sound knees
Marvelling at nature
And the new generations
Living the dream
No longer about material pleasures
More simple ones magnified
By the lens of time
And the knowledge
That each today is unrepeatable
And each tomorrow is precious
Categories:
unrepeatable, age, happiness,
Form: Free verse
UNIQUE
Unparalleled going
Up above only one
Unsurpassed entity.
Unrepeatable feat.
Ultimate sole oneness.
Unbeatable ever.
Uniqueness accepted.
04/30/21
Third Place
' Pleiades U' Contest by Kim Merryman
'Open Poetry Contest' by Charlotte Puddifoot
Categories:
unrepeatable, 12th grade, appreciation,
Form: Verse
Image that ..unique instant of time.. the presentation of which gives a sense of sudden liberation; a sense of freedom from time ... and space .. that sense ... experienced in the presence of works of art..unrepeatable.. tangible.. offering the moment.. to present one Image in a lifetime better than volumes of wordplay
Categories:
unrepeatable, art, imagery, inspiration, poetry,
Form: Imagism
Unique and One-Tracked
Experienced Solely
Unrelatable Unrepeatable
Remembered but Lost
Categories:
unrepeatable, funeral, life, loss, time,
Form: Free verse
she showered the sky in anthracite crimson and sepia
eclipsed broken pencils and crayons moulded together
took a fading snap shot in memory of what’s yet to come
a soft touch surpassed clawed grips of splintered sorrow
outlined peripheral beauty on the transcripts of passing
rescued cinnamon and ultramarine from darkness of night
as she climbed past the pinnacle of rational composure
fresh mysterious shades surpassed stark intentional hues
compounded tapestry of magical sketches into her truth
when the moon waxed in slow motion to a tune of innocence
doubts waned as evaporation dried the canvas and pattern
of unrepeatable capture of reason to emotion’s delight
she took another sip from an overflowing fountain of measure
repainted the scene from scrap books of subconscious mind
unaware of translucent epiphanies moistened on parchment
18th May 2020
Categories:
unrepeatable, appreciation,
Form: Free verse
Butterflies
Rays of sunlight on a crochet of colors, contrast and shapes.
Feet slowly walking; heart beating fast with excitement
Where will he be?
Eyes searching, ears listening, hands reaching, fingers clenching.
There he is.
Beautiful. Gracious. Delicate. Soft, unimaginable patterns and divine colors.
So unique, no two ever the same.
Some are caught, can be hold and admired.
Soft to the touch, an immaculate creature.
Some to stay out of reach; these are the ones we tend to visualize in our dreams.
Dream to live, to hope.
Believe it is yours to cherish.
Its beauty leaves one speechless.
Blessed with its presence, know, even as you are allowed to admire, it is not to be kept.
It is to be treated tenderly and set free.
Reminiscent of beauty and perfection.
So small and delicate; yet an impression unforgettable and unrepeatable.
Beautiful creature scintillating.
Forever, you’ll be remembered.
Categories:
unrepeatable, adventure, butterfly, freedom,
Form: Free verse
The world is a place of illusion,
An illusion which mortals would never comprehend
This is a place of vision, of submission
Of something they would never understand
……………………………….
Life is drama,
Without any rehearsals
Without any comma
Or any refusals
………………………..
Love is another thing
Incomprehensible
Irreversible
Unrepeatable
Unthinkable
Another common fling
…………………………..
And deatth
No words
It always pours
Never rains….
Categories:
unrepeatable, community, confusion, creation, death,
Form: Diamante
Staff Meeting
At my desk each morning,
over my first cup off coffee,
I call the staff meeting to order,
a gathering together
of my various bits and parts
that scattered in the night,
each to its own devices,
be they terror,
notes on that yellow legal pad,
erotic fantasy,
unrepeatable indecencies
uttered in an unfamiliar patois,
a mélange of whirs and clicks,
whooshing breaths,
mah jong tiles scattered in patterns
I don’t understand.
On mornings that don’t hurt
they settle gently
into orderly arrangements,
designs and lines of poems,
the fabric of my day.
Other mornings,
the more ordinary ones,
they reject my need,
become ash
that I scoop into the urn
of yet another
lost
day.
Categories:
unrepeatable, day,
Form: Free verse
I made an unrepeatable memory with you
I purchased an expensive love with you being here
I purchased chased sea of ers with your leaving
You are missed in this strom
To see
That how my vessel of love is drowning
I am reaching moning clmly
But without you
This is beginning of my breaking
In eternal destiny
With you I took my self from my self
In the cold night..
I don’t ask about sunshine that moonlight isn’t annoyed by my
In your past voice im looking for sound of my today life
Categories:
unrepeatable, love,
Form: Romanticism
A Sister’s Letter
In a letter I found written to your sister,
you wrote no problem existed too large or small
she could not bring it to you for counsel and support.
Best sister in the world, I read on, whereupon these
moist old eyes gave way to sobbing at the intense sincerity
of a closeness unrepeatable now.
You stood there beside her as she faded from us,
a circumstance utmost love of family could not alter
even in devotion so great I shy at its summoning.
Could a mother find anything sadder or sweeter as each of you,
a testimony of sororal love born to me. Harmony is silent now
mid-tune in a song whose chorus cannot come round.
©Kathryn McL. Collins
June 12, 2004
Categories:
unrepeatable, sister, love,
Form: Free verse
She's enigmatic jazz
Duke's "Sophisticated Lady"
An original, unrepeatable moment
Ella's scat
spontaneous, extemporaneous
Melodic variation
Rhythm like a pulse
Miles' s dissonant resolution
Ornette's free-form come to life
A nuanced persona
informed by her own harmonic base
Billie's smoky ode to Miss Otis sans regrets
Like Bird when he drenched his sax with sweat
as he set the air aflame
Like aural combustion between us
too hot to be ever put out
Categories:
unrepeatable, love, music, passion, romance
Form: I do not know?