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
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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
This was inspired by an amazing drawing by Suzie
I thought I had drawn a pattern
From the image in my mind
But with no shape or form
Or reason I could find
But then it started moving
With a breath that was its own
And before I had blinked once
I noticed it had grown
And from the spirals wings came
Pencilled flames rolled off its tongue
And its roar was so loud and mighty
Like the loudest bell it rung
The celtic knotwork dragon
And the haunted way that he could sing
Caused him to come to life and
He left the page and took to wing
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