Short Craftsmanship Poems

Superb yet simple
Glimpse into the craftsmanship
Of Chief Carpenter....

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Psalm 19

Showing
God's glory
stars display
His craftsmanship;
without utterance
His Name
is spoken....

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surfaces
hand-planed and
dovetail-joined …

with deft hand
he pets his
creation

uttering
craftsmanship
ain't dead yet.



January 27, 2023
Tricube Poetry Contest
Sara Kendrick, Sponsor...

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a hand swooped down to
firmly hold the ancient building
to root the architecture
to preserve the craftsmanship.

an artistic marvel
human and angel
earth and heaven
merged as one....

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Talent is a seed
Inspiration makes it grow
Turning seed to fruit 

Take selected words
Wrap them up in craftsmanship
Create a poem

Sensuous alive
Feel the power of the words
Teeming on the page
...

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I
Talent is a seed
Inspiration makes it grow
Turning seed to fruit 

II
Take selected words
Wrap them up in craftsmanship
Create a poem

III
Sensuous alive
Feel the power of the words
Teeming on the page...

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My oars were broken
I couldn't sail, I was
at an impasse, alone
but you came along
and mended me, with
your craftsmanship,
now we are in sync 
sailing together as
one, in the ocean blue






Contest: Metaphor Of Love Poem
Sponsor: Bobby May

11/5/19...

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Hey, come on in, and look through my dark eyes.
With an evil grin, I grip this pen, and begin to fantasize.
I can feel the raging energy, and it's flowing through my fingertips.
I take the electricity within me, and pass on my craftsmanship!


*I tag you Ms. Poe (Madison Thomer)...

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Up In the mountains
 Down in the valleys
 In the orderly way the oceans move 
I see love
Love like no other
one perfect in topography
Ingenuity and craftsmanship
It’s in the way the sun rises just at the break of dawn 
And in that perfect moment at twilight...


Luyanda Ngema...

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Complex geometry,
Lines, patterns and symbols,
Fractals and swirls,  
The universe in its diversity and forms, 
Intersecting lifelines,
Nature's craftsmanship and artistry,
A perfect portrait,
Blotched by nature's foes, 
Mysterious design,
Incomprehensible tapestry.




June 5, 2022....

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Viola can be a lesson too 
And every society needs  
Rivers runs through meandering 
Drone is an effect of craftsmanship too 

And I watch you two go. 
From my window, it is a registered time to leave 

And I watch you two, giggling and boasting too. 
As, this world is sometimes nothing other than a surrogate mom....

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His hands were calloused...
From many years of skillfull craftsmanship.

Her hands were soft...
From many years of priming and polishing.

His hands were scarred...
From many years of fighting.

Her hands were cut...
From many years of gardening.

All of our hands are different and tell a different story...
but everything we do is for a purpose....

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The Pillar Falls
the pillar, an act of craftsmanship
solid, festooned and decorated
beautifully designed and plated,
its each brick hooked and slated,
stood as proud attraction in the chapel.
then, aged with seasons and weathers
craven, cracked and dilapidated
dreadfully deserted and haunted,
its each edge blunt, surface perforated,
fell into a pile of shapeless rubble...

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Listen to poem:

Administrator incommunicado
Acknowledging nymphomaniacs
Reclassifying philosophical
Ideologically Transcultural
Pronunciation Calligraphers
Communication demilitarized
Grandstanding orchestration
Carpetbagging adjudications
Redistributed improprieties
Abolitionists brinksmanship
Sarcastically realistically
Craftsmanship flabbergasted
Enlightenment librarianship
Democratically
...

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From once lush green, vibrantly alive
This dorsiventrally flattened leaf never dies
It's fragility, nursed to allow ~
Such patience from the artist abounds
By blade and pin such creativity thralls
Again, it's decaying membranes reach out and touch
From the tree of life, this leaf lives on 




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Written about the craftsmanship of Omid Asadi
whom creates amazing Art from leaves....

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Originating in the ‘Iron-Age’, they stand
as living history; a testament
to the craftsmanship of men of yore

built by hand, each stone 
strategically placed one upon another
no mortar holds them, and yet
as our lands circulatory system
of boundaries
they’ve stood for centuries

arteries and veins of dry stone wall
flowing across the fields and hills
of the countryside  
that is synonymous of rural England....

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create a picture 

using a pen and paper 

needs some craftsmanship 

bend these words on the anvil 

to make something much greater 


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it is easy to write a haiku/tanka 
but the art is to create a picture ..like a blacksmith 
it takes true craftsmanship to make it happen with just so few words .. 
with this i call it " the wordsmith "...

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THE DOLL

With Mona Lisa wiles, unfurled.
Her porcelain lips with tight grip.
A button dress antique and pearled.
Her glass eyed threat.

Unnerving doll — she’s quite a trip.
A poignant face, pompadour curls.
Her long stem rose replaces whip?

Alien smile out of this world —
impenetrable craftsmanship.
I broke in pieces as she hurled
her glass eyed threat.

6/30/2019...

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nobody knew at the time that the gem would be worth
much at the time
she was plucked from the deep, or carved out of a horn,
a chair, the artist took craftsmanship or craftwomanship
into account making something worthy
to partake of for somebody
was it the art,
was it the road to crafting the art,
something that might live on.
The deep ocean swallows,
the shaft is artisanship 
epistemology 
with no desperate reasoning
an idea heartfelt of
no one left 
behind...

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