Short Engraver Poems

Francis William Topham
a 'noted' London man
A designer& engraver
his water colours cused a stir...

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Engraver Gustave Dove
with lithograph art did love
Social  squalor in a bad dream
were his usp theme...

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Engraver Thomas Bewick
introduced an innovative trick
With delicacy& great detail
such a genre could never fail...

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Verre
parlante,
engraver-
a poet in
glass

Emile Galle

http://www.worldcollectorsnet.com/emilegalle/index.html...

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Engraver George Vertue
a father of art history to give him his due
He thought pastel 'the' medium
it does makes for messy finger&thumb...

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English engraver Eric Gill
created alphabet figures at will
Now known for his sans-serif type -face
thus carving out a  unique artistic  place...

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Once I was a preserver
a wayfarer 
a maker
but later
you turned me into a useless stargazer
by losing the will of being your tracer
I ceded my kismet on becoming an engraver

I grew to be nothing but a moveless eraser...

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In the tidy marina, 
the tide is going out. 
My last image of her 
tugs at its mooring. 
 
I pause on a slope 
of the Alpujarras. 
The wide sky can't 
encompass my loss. 
 
A hooded crow calls 
two hours before fajr. 
The engraver has come, 
desperate for epitaphs. 


First published in NOON: Journal of the Short Poem...

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the tablets of earth
are carved in stone,
one tablet in Americas'
235 miles long
every carving, every word
every letter carved in a
language known only to God,
every word, every carving,
every letter as perfectly carved
as an amazing engraver
chiseling into steel,
Gods words, Gods tablets
of stone are as historic as us,
but as old as
the garden of eden itself.
...

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