The barriers to my affection
Are iron gates
With spikes that impale anyone
Who dares to perch too long
Form : Double Tetractys
love
expressed
surreal
heart opens mind
queen mumtaz essence eternal captured
embodied geometry world wonder
shah voiced sacred
masterpiece
power
grand
Montreal is my favourite city ~ a mix of old and new.
I love its architecture which graces it with style and unique character.
It's got more than its share of cathedrals, pubs and restaurants.
It boasts a vibrant mingling of local and exotic culture.
Well known to be the hub of exquisite cuisine and fine dining.
Montreal gathers artists into a most vivacious symbiotic community.
Best of all ~ summertime offers its kaleidoscope of musical festivals.
So make a point of visiting this city that is big on charm !
Let Montreal lure you, captivate you and seduce you ~
AP: 2nd place 2025
Sunlight finds a gap
between two bickering stones—
moss builds a cathedral.
The day the hour,
The meat the shower,
Show no oscillating octopus to an octagonal obelisk and eat a Greek tortilla upside down in a second. It is wiser to tread lightly in a miller’s abode. Round and round the turrets go those turtles so mind your footing for shells can be slippery really.
When shopping for an Aberdeen Angus bull it is wise to carry an umbrella as showers can occur from any lengths of tail thus rendering talismans useless and a fruit fly would remark that a plate of steamed rice is simply not that exciting really so now after all that information you can leapfrog over the dandelions wearing a cotton pair of anglers waders and a fish hat with or without fins.
X anthropomorphic creatures X
I've done bad, I'm full of guilt.
I deserve punishment to the hilt.
You've every reason - sure, you've got 'em.
So, whack me soundly on my bottom,
but please, oh please, don't give me a lecture
on Renaissance architecture.
.
Off
Womb
Earthed
HumanS
In Worship
Of Nature
For Love of Nature
A shelter to be safe
From Fury of Nature
Place to
Explore
Called Own
Home Nature
In its glory
In its beauty
In acceptance
In accordance
In its response
In responsibility
A shelter to look out from
A shelter to look into form
A shelter carved out from
A shelter constructed from
Built Offerings to confirm
Innate Nature human will
That refuses to conform
A mark
The born
The evolved
There created
That left a form
That drawn from
Collective Nature
Cyclical Nature Impression
Creations Emerge Dissolve
To the larger will
Nature returns
It is her field
In her fold
A recall
We Look Up At The Family Of Tracery Architecture
Tracery architecture began seeing the light
From the Gothic Age on it gained its birthright
Its beauty spread left and right, day and night
In the stoneware dividing the glass with all its might
It took shape in the rising windows to a viewer's delight
The molds and shapes symmetrical and out of sight
Where the decorative patterns do please the eye and incite
With grooves, twirls, and colors holding the window tight
Many a cathedral today share its passage and sprite
Like an acquired custom, blessing, and rite
That duly accentuates the interiors and exteriors flight
Where the parishioners do see more than the rays of daylight
1/28/23
TRACERY Poetry Contest
Sponsor-Julia Ward
He was a designer from an early age
He knew this when he turned a catalog’s page
His parents were proud; his ideas were all the rage
He grew up to design buildings, some will never age
He has a knack for seeing things in a new way
His designs are incredible which is why we’re here today
To honor this designer who had such a great eye
He designed this building – so gorgeous, it gives me a sigh.
Five chimney pots standing proud
on victorian tiles and darkened
shroud of stone, it stands alone.
Bleak and raven tarnish grown
in age and time, its beauty faded,
stout yet jaded.
Resolute, it does remain a formidable and
gloomy garnished stain
on an urban nest of semi chain.
How neglected you have been
when once a queen!
Standing in your kingdom green.
Guarded by trees and nectar,
blossom breeze through high grass
and the silent murmur of summer sneeze.
Respected, calm and free.
I see and etch your memory made.
Whilst others simply fade away.
Up the mountain
The forest hides a fountain
Escape the summer madness,
In cool shade
Ice cold water
Glides through my fingers
Senses awake
A gushing melody Under Ottoman shapes
There's light on the surface
Even oppressors
Leave relics to impress us
This oasis of calmness sedates
INVISIBLE MASS
hey architect,
You've been given a vacant terrain,
somewhere crowd of green grasses
a meeting place of tall trees.
Go straight from that vacant terrain to the paper.
With sunlight, air movement and some related content, You draw some 2D lines.
Each line carries the meaning.
You also make them in many different shapes.
At the same time, hundreds of calculations and ideas are exchanged with new thinking.
A 3D form of imagination that builds on thin lines.
Where you can imagine gestures used by users, shuttle of light somewhere, and fair use of green etc.
which make meaningful sense of that space.
Which actually constitutes invisible mass.
Then you are there to make your invisible mass visible,
At the end, it becomes visible.
?
A solitary wren perches on a perfect arch
And warbles a pitiful tune
A domed silhouette is cast against the moon
The faded cerulean crown
Pillar upon pillar, arch upon arch
Magnolia marbled magnificence resides amongst concrete
But where history and metropolis meet
St Paul's stands tall
The Whispering Gallery conspires your name
In such a harmonious chorus
Oil upon canvas and Renaissance clay
St Paul's stands another day
Great Tom shines in solitude
Concealed in your embrace
Melancholic chimes reign proudly over London
Admiration and pride etched onto your face.
As robins forage on the lawn,
their last pre-frost hunt, and
feast within the berried trees,
I wonder if they think upon
an old disheveled nest
and recall at all their youth
within its sheltered folds;
as we might ponder
while passing by
our old childhood home.
Or, do they simply move along
- time being too valuable
for sentimental recollections.
Inspired by the poetry of Robert Frost
B-uildings
I-n
E-xcellent
N-ice
V-iew
E-mploy
N-ifty
I-mpressive
D-esign
O-f
M-arvelous
A-rchitecture
N-otably
A-mazing
L-ooking
O-bservers
Topic: Birthday of Bro. Bienvenido G. Manalo (August 28)
Form: Vertical Monocrostic
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