Best Needlework Poems
Will You Tie My Shoes When I Grow Old
...You were beautiful,
my tiny child,
wrapped tightly in my arms,
close to my heart.
I listened to you breathing.
I counted your fingers
and your toes.
Helpless,
you cried out to me
and I loved you
......
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Categories:
needlework, caregiving, childhood, daughter, growing
Form:
Narrative
Violet
...In London, away in a terrace
Half-hidden with elm trees and grime,
Lived young Violet, in her parents' house,
Left alone for near all of the time,
As her mother had no patience to teach her
An......
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Categories:
needlework, adventure, angst, death, loss,
Form:
Ballad
What Are We
...
It is the grey of evening...soft lamps glow as our hood readies itself for some crumbs of comfort:
Old widows wrap themselves with pillows for third- hand affection,
Children yawn sur......
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Categories:
needlework, how i feel, life,
Form:
Imagism
Leftover Wool
...When my knitting queen aunt
Feels that needlework pull,
She starts knitting some squares
Using leftover wool.
They’re rectangles, really,
With colorful stripes,
Their patterns and stitches
......
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Categories:
needlework, appreciation, granddaughter,
Form:
Rhyme
Sewing Circle
...A Beautiful Collection
Artistic. Brilliant colours. Dainty embroidery.
Fragile golden hues in jewelled kaftans.
Light multicoloured needlework on patchwork quilts.
Rich silken tapes......
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Categories:
needlework, beautiful,
Form:
ABC
Family Heirlooms
...Family heirlooms
Some collect old art pieces, jewelry or photos.
Others, end tables, organ benches, or beds
If it belonged to Grandma or Grandpa it’s a keeper.
Especially fancy needlework and piecew......
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Categories:
needlework, family,
Form:
Quatrain
The Hot Mom and the Pool Boy - a Poetrysoup Collaboration
...The day was long and she was spent
off to the pool our hot mom went
asked for some lotion
and dreamlike potion
drifting away she was content
Before to long she had awoke
sounds of pleasure th......
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Categories:
needlework, fun,
Form:
Limerick
Weave of Life's Fabric
... Sewing machine, long idle, gathered dust
Polished now in the hallway, my fond antique
Recalling Grandaunt’s delicate craftwork--
Each pattern of fabric threaded with zest,
As her han......
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Categories:
needlework, memory,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
Embroidered
...I got a SoupMail; didn’t know
Who sent it, so I read it.
A person found a poem of mine
And had the thought to thread it.
By that, I mean embroidery –
She stitched it, oh, so neatly,
To make ......
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Categories:
needlework, appreciation,
Form:
Rhyme
Needlework
...How to behave now
he finds me sketching him with
a needle and thread?......
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Categories:
needlework, art, imagination,
Form:
Haiku
Garage Sale
...Artfully arranged articles:
Books beside bedding,
Clocks, camera, china cups clinking,
Dishes, decanters, dining damask,
Electronics
Facing ferns,
Gardening gear. Gaudy
Handwoven hats hide
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Categories:
needlework, places
Form:
ABC
Liatra
...Pasha Acremodios grew greedy,
discontented with the domain he dominated,
so he turned covetous eyes toward Farabia,
sending his soldiers to seize this ripened plum
Spoiling for a fight and figh......
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Categories:
needlework, dance, death, desire,
Form:
Free verse
Things
...Things
Things . . .
Things?
Things!
Just ordinary
Things.
Familiar Things.
Everyday Things.
Obvious Things.
Even trivial Things.
Things seen
Front on or
From an angle.
Things gli......
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Categories:
needlework, love, nostalgia, sad,
Form:
Free verse
A Letter of a Sis
...Dearest sister-in law,
Today, I met the person,
you tried in your match-making effort for me.
He was quite a nice one!
Although, it did not offer
stemming much of other thoughts, other......
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Categories:
needlework, lost love,
Form:
Free verse
Abegail In the Library
...
It was the late 18th century and Abegail was twenty-one years old,
She was about to be married soon to an older man of thirty-four;
Her family was considered middle-class yet they owned ......
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Categories:
needlework, books,
Form:
Narrative