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Tracery Poems - Poems about Tracery

Premium Memberdecaying

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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

Premium MemberETCHINGS

...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

Premium MemberGate

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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

Premium MemberFiligree

...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

Premium MemberWe 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

Premium MemberTracery

...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

Premium MemberTracery 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

Premium MemberChild, 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

Premium MemberPowerful 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

Premium MemberReprise

...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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