Before a looking glass
where butterflies whirl
and fan iridescence,
a party girl sways
pearlesque beads
entwined in raven ringlets.
Crooked candlelight
gasps and gutters
amid spectral murmurs.
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.
amorphous diamonds
scattered across evening sky ~
finest 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 frolics
Garnishing grateful glittery gardenias
Heavenly hope heralding
Iridescent illusions imagining
joyous jumbled jubilation
~ window between us,
your breath freezes like fine lace ...
goodbye's frigid fringe ~
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.
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
The cherub of love pierces my filigree heart – now passion reveals
2/7/18
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
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 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
A ghostly moon starts rising
as Dusk falls, and daylight's done.
And orange and tangerine,
envelope a crimson sun.
Heaven's draped in black velvet,
adorned with jewels of light.
And swirls of gold filigree,
spin within the dark of night.
Spinning pulsars and quasars
imbue rhythm to time and space.
And in this cosmic ballet,
gravity holds all in place.
Mars ascends in shades of red,
evoking passion and praise.
And claiming Her rightful place;
Venus peeks down through the haze.
Shooting stars fizzle away
within the blink of an eye.
And the kingdom of magic
is as near as the night sky.
Black and white lace filigree drips
Shot through by cawing crow
Tightly woven lace blocks the sun
Cold rain drips from leaves slow
~*~
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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