Pinnacle piercing luminous skies
Gargoyle groping rainwater rushing
Biting with stone-frozen jaws
Stained windows stand still
Depicting the Daring - those who were worthy
Quadpartite vaulting coupling heights
Rose shapes shadow faces with
Green, Red
Blue.
Altar to Our Mary's Virgin Veil
Candles caress the flickering heat rising
Reds and whites gleam.
Echoes emanate
Chartes
Chartes
Chartes
Author notes
17 June 2007.
It's about Chartes Cathedral, one of the most amazing Gothic cathedrals ever built. You can tell my shaky grasp of art history with my rather loose references to quadpartite vaulting, etc. (A technique where four main veins meet at the top of an arch to give it support. Most non-British Gothic cathedrals use quadpartite.)
This was mostly an exercise I gave myself in alliteration. It worked, to an extent. It's definitely very rough-draft-esque, though.
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