Short Filigreed Poems

a symphony of prayer
 touches my mind
 and in the peace
 of whispered words
 I soothe my heart 

some are imprinted
 without thought
 and as filigreed light
 warms my soul,
 they slip out
 as an adoration
 sung from the heart 

in these moments
 of reverence and love
 where no pain can burn
 or malice survive
 
I come as close to heaven
 as I can bear to be...

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Strong, like kingdom walls,
stacks of sandbags, swamps of quicksand,
or barricades of filigreed barbed wire.
It holds me inside.

I can see myself in eleven years.
Perched on sterile metal instead of 
mountains of handmade quilts,
or nests of woven moss.

It will have turned love-making and child-bearing
from an art to a science,
and I will paint pictures 
of how being a woman is supposed to feel....

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Farewell, Summer
Welcome blue September skies 
Chasing away dry, warm days.
Slow dwindling cool daylight sighs 
Chill autumn sings, gazing eyes 
Touch a maze of rhythmic brushstrokes.

Spoiled frosty air creeps and cloaks 
A soul of perfection beneath 
Shadowed shade encircling wreath.

Whispering filigreed leaves 
Filled with tickled laughter weave 
Watercolor tangled blaze
Chasing away dry, warm days.


9/9/2019...

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Kneeling 

as the curtains of time
slipped to drift 
in the river of days, 
my eyes sighed tears 
and my heart 
cupped to capture 
its communion

praying 

as the folds of hours 
enveloped and draped 
to pool, over hands 
in humilities hold, 
as each whisper 
travelled mere moments 
to awaken a Star

unknowingly

my words 
had filigreed to glimmer 
in milli seconds of wonder, 
and the Sapphire dome 
now shimmers to mirror 
a future enthralled 

at peace...

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