Filigree Poems | Examples

The soul is craftsmanship, a complex filigree

The soul is craftsmanship, a complex filigree,
One moment it dances in laughter, and the next, no reaction spree.
It's the secretive goldsmith of emotions we weave day by day,
With wings of thoughts, while the tiniest feelings can make the balance sway.
Upon us, the eave of the sky sometimes heavily lies,
And yet, we resist, with a shield of will, under the stars and fogs that rise.
I fear, I do not possess this strength, I’m framed elsewhere,
My fluctuations are an ocean, with extreme waves, harsh and without spare.
My temperament battles with sensitivity in a vast sea,
A fight not at all easy, for the soul, it's nearly a calamity.
It's deeply etched in my essence, as fate has inscribed,
And perhaps it empowers me, to shape into words all that I've imbibed.
Protect me, humor, from too much honesty,
You are my shield daily, my safety strategy.
But empty would my universe be, if poetry had none to hear,
Without friends to share verse, life would be just a silent theater, drear.

lacy

amorphous diamonds
	scattered across evening sky ~
		finest filigree

Filigree

Filigree
Celtic Filigree

Graceful filigree unbroken 
Weaves a tracery
With strands entwined
Like a whisper from the misty isles
Woven into whorls of melodic unity,
Indivisible spirals of the eternal three,
Thin harp strings of crisscrossed swirls
Weaving lyric filigree
Delicate fine threads elaborate
Earth, water, fire in legends
Of scholar saints and mystics –
Erin’s braided shield 
Two hearts intertwined into infinity
As a king’s wisdom brings a benediction
Of enduring life
That reaches back into the dusty kells 
Of rosettes in oak roots interlinked
Plaited knotwork - no beginning and no end -
Echoes eons of captured grace
In continuous mystical contours

2-14-23
Contest: Writing Challenge – F Words 
Sponsor: Constance La France

There are several well-known Celtic knots including Knotwork, The Trinity Knot, the Dara Knot, Solomon’s Knot and the Love Knot.

One of the meanings of “kells” is cocoon or chrysalis

Fanciful Filigree Faerie

Fanciful filigree faerie frolics
Garnishing grateful glittery gardenias
Heavenly hope heralding 
Iridescent illusions imagining 
joyous jumbled jubilation

Farewell Filigree

~     window between us,


               your breath freezes like fine lace ...


          goodbye's frigid fringe     ~

Nature and Creation Envy

I saw a dragonfly today

        Skimming over the surface of a still pond

It’s beauty reflecting the light

        Colours of blue, green opalescent delight

It’s wings fluttering as it flew effortlessly

        It’s a sample of nature in full silent flight

It dances weaves, glides and hovers with ease

        I wish this dragonfly was me flying freely

On a filigree wing so peacefully

        I have a case of nature and creation envy

Yet can you blame me.

Filigree Snowflakes Fall

I walk lonely in the garden of my dead mother,
down paths frozen with song birds in trees;
my coat is of mourning black, 
my heart is shattered- 
Filigree snowflakes,
fall . . . 


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March 17, 2018


Poetry/Verse/Filigree Snowflakes Fall
Copyright Protected, ID 18-1004-571-01
All Rights Reserved.  Written Under Pseudonym.

Submitted to the contest, A Melting Snowball
Sponsor Line Gauthier ( Snowball  Poetry )

Third Place

Used descending words 10, 8  6, 4, 2, 1

My Filigree Heart

The cherub of love pierces my filigree heart – now passion reveals

2/7/18

Frost Like Filigree

Jack 
Frost 
arrives 
Feather like 
patterns have appeared 
all over my bedroom windows 
My frozen fingers trace the swirling fern like patterns 
as I gaze intensely at the sparkling crystalline formation on the window panes 


Warm
breath 
melts a 
small section 
of filigree ice 
Rivulets of icy water 
trickle down the glass. I wipe away condensation 
and peer out onto my lawn, which is scintillating with delicate crystals of ice

I
step
onto
frosted grass
and can hear it crunch
with each stride I make on the lawn
Low winter sun is shining and I am enchanted
by a delicate gossamer spider’s web glistening with beads of ice white diamonds

Each stanza 54 syllables checked with how many syllables

The Magic of Three Contest:- Sponsored by Broken Wings

01/27/18

Frost Like Filigree

~ Frost
         by
             design
~ delicate,
       crafted in the night,
            dainty — like lacy handiwork
~ inspirational, like twisted wire, a story told —
details meted out behind heaven’s door, with peculiarities that we adore


~ O
      please
         inspect
            windowpane 
crystalline effects ~
       ~ seraphic white silver and gold —
the finest craftsmanship, twisted with Eden’s treasure ~
filigree beads of angelic hoary-breath, reminders of the invisible God


~ Rime
clings
   to soil,
inspired world —
   embraced by cold hands ~
          fragile tendrils spread like ivy,
                      intricate cherubic smithing — like spider webbing,
subtleties sensational, O how it sparkles ~ seasonal diamondiferous earth


1/24/2018
The Magic Of Three
Sponsored by: Broken Wings
Fibonacci (8 lines) x 3 = 24 lines(pattern- 1 1 2 3 5 8 13 21 syllables)

A Gold Filigree Chest

A walled in pond with trees draped with moss
brighten by a warm predawn  glow

Two sisters sit on a small stone clearing
keeping  secrets of their own
that can never be lost

A gleam of awe on their lovely faces
an open gold filigree chest they hold
Lustrous  pearls once worn by their  grandmother
they hold dear ,treasured and old they’ve been told

Believing  in dreams
their  destiny might bring forth
and the magic of
the bond between sisters love
that can by no means  be lost


8/13/2016

Poem was written in tribute to Broken Wings  with the inspiration of her poems; 

Clarity In A Treasure Box
http://www.poetrysoup.com/poem/clarity_in_a_treasure_box_804717

The Pearl Necklace
http://www.poetrysoup.com/poem/the_pearl_necklace_794952

It Takes Four - Poetry Contest  
Sponsored by: Broken Wings  


Written with the four forms listed below and in this order  

Crystalline - 2 lines   9/8 syllables, unrhymed

Kimo - 3 lines 10/7/6 syllables, unrhymed

Quatrain - 4 lines, line 2 and 4 rhyme, lines with similar number of syllables

Tanka - 5 lines, 5/7/5/7/7 syllables, unrhymed

Swirls of Gold Filigree

A pale, ghostly moon rises
at night when the day is done.
And orange and tangerine
get bled from a crimson sun.

Space is draped in black velvet,
pinned with galaxies of light.
And swirls of gold filigree
confetti the dark of night.

Twirling pulsars and quasars
provide rhythm, spinning in place.
And in this cosmic ballet,
gravity maintains the pace.

Mars ascends in shades of red;
evoking passion and praise.
Securing Her rightful place;
Venus appears through the haze.

And shooting stars fizzle out
within the blink of an eye.
For the kingdom of magic
is as near as the night sky.

Lace Filigree

Black and white lace filigree drips
Shot through by cawing crow
Tightly woven lace blocks the sun
Cold rain drips from leaves slow

Filigree Clouds

~*~

Clouds of twisting filigree

Azure sky entwined, tangled

Soft, delicate, billowing

A lace hammock in the sky

~*~



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August 29, 2012


Free Verse/Filigree Clouds
Copyright Protected, ID 08- 417-023-29
All Rights Reserved, 2012, Constance La France


Written for the Standard contest Hammock of Sky In Tanaga
Sponsored by,  nette onclaud, Judged 09/11/2012

Sixth place
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Featured poem October 26, 2014

Autumn Filigree

The gray haze of autumnal fog drenches the leave-strewn grass.
Trance-like, lain within the wet air, like babies breath, the leaves fall.
A soft, damp, blanket of gold, filigree, 
edges the green cloak of the Mother,
Her garb lays adorned with a pointed patterns of earthly stars. 
Warmed so, by the abundance of her children; 
caressed by the love of the Father, beloved, the Mother yawns....
stirring the leaves, yet again, the leaves arise.

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