Seesaw

Time
flies by.
Seesaw has tipped.
Days sliding away towards
autumn.

© Elizabeth Leaper

Converging

Everything
converging on
a point in
time, will I be
ready?

© Elizabeth Leaper

Christmas

A
time for
goodwill to all
though not only now,
always

© Christine Moran

Please visit http://journeyintopoetry.wordpress.com and ‘Perfect Imperfection’ to read more of Christine’s work

Momento Mori

Memories
Dance like
Pretty butterflies,
fleeting, Just out of reach –
Tantalizing

Treasured
Photographic memories
Reduced to graffiti
Etched by impetuous light –
Meaningless

Reality
Now fragmented;
Well-defined lines
Between fact and fiction
Blurred

Soul
Lost in
The labyrinth of
Tangled impressions, intangible expressions –
Chaotic

Wandering
Down the memory lane
Encroached by dementia
Bold steps
Falter

Time
Spares none:
A black hole
Vacuum-pulling all into
Oblivion

Zainab Ummer Farook
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Zainab says: “This poem was written during a local poetry writing competition and was partly inspired by my grandfather. Thank you for introducing me to the inversion of the form – it really helped out in the penultimate stanza!”

What Zainab didn’t mention is that this poem came a well deserved second in the competition. The poem truly demonstrates how the Elfje form can be used to create more complex poems. The inverted form really works well here.

Please check out zainabuf.blogspot.com to read more of Zainab’s work.

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Near Yet Distant

some
anniversaries are
reminders of sadness
it’s been twelve years –
loss

time
marches on
and just when
breath returns so do
tears

contemplation
edging reality
at the creek
banking on good memory
flow

I
stand alone
let water fall
from my blinking eyes…
see?

JP/davh

You can read more of JulesPaige’s work at Jules Gemstone Pages and at http://julesgemsandstuff.blogspot.com