decaying
...
the gate to the old cemetery is rusty and old
though once upon a time is was elegant and gilded
ornate with filigree tracery ornamentation
now, it is d e c a y i n g fragile, beautiful...
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Categories:
tracery, nature,
Form: Verse
ETCHINGS
...in soft outline
strokes
whorls&
stains
cropping close
piercing black
upright
&
informal
imaginary &surprising
ambiguous
perhaps
an allusion
something from
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Categories:
tracery, art,
Form: Imagism
The Carrion Tree
...–For Burns
Hanging from its branches,
The tree bears them like glorious fruits—
Laden with corpses rotting: old and new.
Their eyes glazed over, forever spewing agony—
All in variou...
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Categories:
tracery, animal, death, peace, tree,
Form: Free verse
Gate
...
The gate to the old cemetery is rusty and old,
though once upon a time is was elegant and gilded;
ornate with filigree tracery ornamentation,
now, it is decaying, fragile, yet still...
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Categories:
tracery, imagery,
Form: Verse
Son Say Goodnight To Grandpa
...“Son”...”say goodnight to grandpa”
Spurred by mother dearest
as well as other politesse
drummed into her second born
fobbing blandishments as incentive
tumbled off fingers of prodigal son
tr...
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Categories:
tracery, 12th grade, 3rd grade,
Form: Rhyme
Creaturely
...Rough hands upon her,
not near, there, or where,
nor the seashell tip of a fingering care
or other
lack-lustering lapping's
but the groundless clubfooted grasping
...
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Categories:
tracery, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Perfection
...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 pla...
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Categories:
tracery, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Starry Fabric
...All nature’s linked, the heavens with the earth,
in star formations, gas, galactic dust,
elusively in roles of death and birth
however random seems their wanderlust.
We peer in space with telesco...
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Categories:
tracery, earth, nature, poetry, space,
Form: Sonnet
Filigree
...Filigree
Celtic Filigree
Graceful filigree unbroken
Weaves a tracery
With strands entwined
Like a whisper from the misty isles
Woven into whorls of melodic unity,
Indivisible spirals of the...
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Categories:
tracery, ireland, life,
Form: Free verse
We Look Up At the Family of Tracery Architecture
...We Look Up At The Family Of Tracery Architecture
Tracery architecture began seeing the light
From the Gothic Age on it gained its birthright
Its beauty spread left and right, day and ni...
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Categories:
tracery, beauty, blessing, gothic,
Form: Rhyme
Tracery
...Bejeweled, in and out of the Gothic architecture,
Conceived by Abbot Suger, through a constant conjecture;
With perfect glasswork etched out of the then-time silica,
Found its place In Saint-Deni...
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Categories:
tracery, art, culture, gothic, inspirational,
Form: Rhyme
Tracery 101
...To lie motionless is essential to the art of childhood tracery.
John G.Lawless
©1/26/2023...
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Categories:
tracery, children,
Form: Monoku
Child, Child, Holy Child Yes I'M Still Here
...Child, Child, Holy Child Yes I'm Still Here
Bless me Holy Father as I weep
You are my Shepherd and I am your sheep
I pray at the altar today to confess my sin
But I don't know where to ...
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Categories:
tracery, forgiveness, god, light,
Form: Rhyme
Powerful Concepts
...POWERFUL CONCEPTS
daring
to return
in
enthralling
&
radiant
grandeur
bright emblems
in freefall
of
nostalgiaa
resembling
a
galaxy of
frozen
spectacular
fragments
forever pa...
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Categories:
tracery, poetry,
Form: Other
Reprise
...Against the depthless blue
Backdrop of the sky
A tracery of bare brown branches
Feathers out above,
Dipped golden by last rays
Of the declining sun.
But wait!
The show’s not over yet,
For...
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Categories:
tracery, celebration, life, nature, sunset,
Form: Free verse
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