Short Filagree Poems

Fairy lights of insects
        Fascinate the senses
                 Flaring in the nighttime 
                             Feel the magic moment 
                 Filagree wings in flight
         Flitting in a bright dance
Free flow sparks of wonder.










Written on 9/12/2023...

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December drifts of white entice my mind -
entrap me with a filigree of time-capped waves
that ripple and unroll and lay enchantment
with a filigree of time-marked lines
to shape and sharpen memory's bequest
of looking back from winter's berth -
entrance me with a filigree of times removed,
and times left out, and times moved on....

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They quiver
with the motion of her hand
and she calls them pretty.
No one comes 

here without joy.
Fiber filagree adds color 
miracles. Needy, pretty,
drizzled. Shivering.
 
as she moves them.
The women tote
them, arranging and
mixing them in the sun.
 
Life is in whispers,
lighter than gauze,
the shuffle of breath,
the brush of tooth on lip....

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In monysllables; in almost inarticulate speech
The murmer of life awakes my thought
Patterns impress upon my conciusness
Filagree of tree branches on the ground
Rumble of traffic a sound in staccato
All nessesary movement; cat and mouse I
Sense,  the fear; I shudder at a fervid pleasure
See the ice cream van, and the twin-set lady
Demure reposing, a reflecion of the impossible
Days demand; invade; the scenes I survey
I smooth out the twenty dollar bill; again
And  consider.'...

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