Short Tracery Poems

To lie motionless is essential to the art of childhood tracery.

John G.Lawless
©1/26/2023...

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in soft outline
strokes
whorls&
      stains
cropping close
 
    piercing black
upright
&
 informal
  imaginary &surprising

 ambiguous
perhaps
 an allusion
      
 something from
 nothing
      refined
evocations
of
minimalist
  tracery...

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Magnified is this cloudless sky
with nothing unseen or seen.

Yet, there, spotted; a spot
in the faraway,
a puff of off-white tracery,
a hint of cloudiness,

and yet
so perfectly placed,

an eloquent flaw
in this amplitude of
clearest blue....

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dimwit damping desires
punctured passion pulsing
puking, sopped plenary
impregnated zeal gnashing
odd offshoot scolding

cremated cusses cobbling
hewn nosy tracery
strapped self scrunching

jumpy jazz jolting
mystic mist moaning
lusty limbs lurching

felon feigning ally;
perforated pulpy pedigree.
19:11:30:5:00

Note: To all corrupt Police Officers!...

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WINTER TRACERY
Shapes spread statuesque,
foliage in Winter tracery.
silver birches,paper barked.
A spectacle ,avsentinel of
stem-structures encompasses
and canopies the season with
simplicity.

You may hear me recite this poem and much of my anthology on youtube under my pen name ichthychiro.

Check out my short forms(Footle/broken monku/tristich/kuhlmann etc etc )@strandpoet on twitter....

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A mousy light filters a tracery of sunset,
dappled beams succumb to gloaming.

Evening stretches moments
for the rescue of wreckages,
to calm the upheavals of disheveled hours.

Dusk softly pronounces its adieus,
carries the bruised upon ebbing tides
as children, they are brought out 
from burning houses.

Upon a twilight cradle
eventide glides each baffled breath 
along a dwindling shore,
a Moses basket
that dreams us unto dawn....

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