Best Doily Poems

delicate lace linked by crochet
labyrinthine stitches a doily a day

counted by repetitious candlelight
motherly hands of preponderant foresight

twisting and surrender of silent threads
tucking each one into intricate spreads

lovingly lace reflects persistence of face
a warm cosseted Victorian embrace

from hands that stumbled with wrinkles
forlorn and gnarled knots, catastrophic...

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STILL LIFE - WITH FRUIT, DOILY AND BOTTLE

They spill!
Of her he’d had his fill
He tipped the table
Dumped!
Her oranges, apples, pears
Surprised the tea cup biddies -
Set them on their ears -
Then, with her priceless lacey cloth
Had wiped the floor of fruity froth
Hence he meant to finish...

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good morning my frothy white mini doily
love your lacy presence welcoming another day
you may be barren by nightfall my beauty
Kansas winds blowing your seeds away...

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