It all happens in
One unexpected trice
The way the wind catches the door
The instant the ocean bursts into art form
As it crashes against the reef
The fluke of snowflakes in April
Your heart gives you wings
Unpredictable things and you
Can either
…………..pause
watching them pass
Or leap
We welcome Merril as a new pubtender at dVerse Poets Pub, hosting our first Poetics for 2019!
She has asked us to “consider time and space and what if?” Join us!
Happy New Year!
mishunderstood 
Ah the unpredictable…..I like that idea of just simply pausing to actually take account of them. Yep – that just happened by golly! 🙂
I love the sense that maybe that our choices are limited… in the end it’s like that wave coming crashing, carrying us away
I like the stillness and motion in this–a pause, a leap into the unknown or unexpected. Or not. And what if?
Thanks for noticing that. A wonderful prompt you gave us. 🙂
You’re welcome. 🙂
I like the mundane of the window catching a door compared to the sea breaking across the reef. It’s a lovely comparison in a lovely poem.
Thank you, Carol. 🙂
I like that series of images – the sudden overwhelm – and then the choice. To join, or to stay separate.
Pause or leap…I like the moment’s capture specially: The instant the ocean bursts into art form.
Happy new year Mish!!!!
I like the leaping too. It’s very Shakespearean 🙂
Thank you, Jane! 🙂
🙂
Oh, this is lovely, Mish, especially the lines:
‘The way the wind catches the door
The instant the ocean bursts into art form
As it crashes against the reef’.
Pain and elation and anger and empathy can burst into an art form as well. For we poets the choices border on the infinite. I would retitle the piece PAUSE, THEN LEAP./
Thanks for the suggestion, sir. I will consider it. 😉
I love how all the lines lead up to the last five, and the dramatic choice those five offer! Excellent, Mish! 🙂
Thank you, Frank! 🙂
A pause … and a leap of faith … pretty much sums up what life’s all about!
I like the thought of those wings being unpredictable.
“The way the wind catches the door
The instant the ocean bursts into art form
As it crashes against the reef
The fluke of snowflakes in April”
this is a beautifully vivid passage, well done.
I live the last lines of this! Brava!
I think you do! Very admirable. 🙂
“Your heart gives you wings
Unpredictable things and you”
love these lines – there’s magic about to happen!!
such a great visual with this poem loved it!
You brought me back to my softball days, standing at home plate, waiting for the pitch, with only seconds to size it up and decide whether or not to swing.
Brilliant verse Mish. If only I knew when to wait and when to jump
Sometimes unexpected things are the very best!!! May your New Year, but unexpected and the best!!
Thank you Annell! Happy New Year to you too. 🙂
Liked this Mish, our choices are always our own to own!
How marvelous- so much movement and motion, and then a pause…
Leap!
True. Those little moments that we think are insignificant do set a course for our lives. I like how you captured that moment of decision.
Happy new year, Mish.😀
Very zen-like… if one is present, there are no what-ifs. Lovely sentiment and eloquently written.
Nice! I hope this will be a “leap” year!
Ah the wings of unpredictable things… let’s leap! This is nice Mish, and crashes like waves and is a tad scary and bounteously giving