Short Engravings Poems

Scot Walter Shirlaw
made engravings by the score
With lines carefully drawn
nature studies at dawn...

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Turning on favorites 
All the firsts of things
Felling in depth 
Being unaware
Not giving a care
Letting go on roller coaster
Learn
Catalog page
Turns
From one thing to another
Paint brush flow 
In even strokes
Then in all directions
Engravings fitting 
For Summers affections...

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OBSERVATIONS
a dream
 of truth
  deserving
  enthusiasm
in
never-to-be- forgotten
  expectations

 predictions
 adornments
 engravings
with
compositions
reiterating
 appropriate
images
  alongside
 continuity
of
 viewpoints

divisive
diminished
 prospects
 destabilise
stability
&
  benefit
the
 sympathetic...

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Tattered and soiled, an old book with gold embossed letters on its cover. Discovered in a crumpled heap. A treasure once to be in a library, shelved, to be read. Withdrawn to reveal wonders of the world. Fragile its pages, turning each page with notes in the margins, difficult to read. Engravings of an angelic sculpture, forgotten in time....

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Quantum mechanics,

The titanic cello quartet
that glides through
the entanglements of
biomechanical sonatas

The veiled pendulum
that dances between
life’s bloom and decay,

The gaunt thread of
spider’s silk that
shackles me to this
Byzantine latticework -
a web of antifragility

The architect’s hands
that etch Darwinian
engravings upon
the marrow of
my trembling bones,
hardcoding survival
into my Jungian anima...

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