Minimalist Poetry Contest

Bygone

Retro
vintage
heirloom
art deco

Classic
revival
renaissance
pick-up sticks

Antique
antedated
rolled back
movies for a nickel

5/19/2015

Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor STATELY

These were both two great entries and I think they both really captured the feel of retro quite well.

YesNo: I liked the playfulness of your poem and the way you conveyed a Retro state of mind. I particularly loved the lines:
"I like the way I dot my i’s
With drops of blood. I sympathize"

And I thought the ending tied it all together quite well. A clever poem

But I have to give the win to tailor STATELY

A charming poem that gave a great feeling of nostalgia and really took the reader back into times past.

Thank you Dark Muse !

Next minimalist subject: Music............... deadline June 10.

Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor STATELY

Why should waves give us repose
With sound that doesn’t mean much? Those
Notes make a difference, short and long,
Together, turning breath to song.

Music

Harmony, melody and rhythm,
All dissipate into nothingness,
Vibrations of the ear
Are all you hear -
Nothing more, nothing less.

Architecture of the mind
Walls of silence and sound
In which you will find
Yourself forever bound.

music
the sound therapeutic
to hear it
daily
is fabulous
mainly
because a note
is like a
flavour of quote
not seen but wrote
memory for it
is devote

I am so torn on deciding.

YesNo: Your poem is spartan to the core. Enjoyed the enjambment and aa bb scheme

North Star: Your poem adds still a bit more. The form abccb dede worked for me.
I especially liked:
“Walls of silence and sound
In which you will find
Yourself forever bound.”

cacian: Free and innocent. My favorite lines: “ because a note/is like a/flavour of quote”.

After much agony I choose: North Star

Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor STATELY

Thanks, Tailor.

Next theme: photography.
Deadline: July 6

It’s better than what I can see.
Astigmatism bothers me.
I magnify a photo and
New mysteries I understand.
It’s data, yes, but well-arranged.
Now look again. The world has changed.
That change is finely captured, too,
If I hold to one point of view
And keep the camera steadied on
A change that passes. Ah, it’s gone!
Except I sort of have it still,
Or do I? There’s a kind of thrill
With its brief pleasure or sharp pain
That I might never feel again.
Is that important? Maybe not
Or maybe it is all I’ve got.

a photo
at a click of a button
is solo
memory runs hollow
an image thorough

Camera Obscura

Still life
caught in motion
timeless illusion
it speaks
without words

bump
North Star this overdue :)

another bump this is oderdue
North Star :)

Sorry, I've been busy and absent-minded lately.

Beautiful entries all, but I have to choose YesNo here as it really made me think that it's exactly how I feel about the subject. Dark Muse's sparse meditation is lovely too, and cacian's is good too, and in the always recognizable style. But, YesNo wins this round, as I wrote in the first place.

North Star thank you.
and YesNo congratulations :)