Best Sewn Poems

When the auctioneer first shows it,
I feel a sudden piercing shock.
My grandma's hand-sewn antique quilt
Is on the auction block.
It is the lovely basket pattern
And her stitches are so neat,
It must have taken tedious hours 
For my grandma to complete.

I have taken such good care of...

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I like someone 
who speaks all my languages
not just their own 
I love someone 
who when I get 
my head sewn to the carpet 
doesn't say 
"Good luck with that "...

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Still unwritten not quite, filled in 
every word has pinned itself to story  
like a sewing machine stitch 
down a runway path to somewhere; 
Turning points and zig zag threading 
let the seams tell of the glory 
Pages of my life sealed inside a...

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"Seams Sewn in Souls Strung like Pearls Cast out into the World" 



In each of us
a pearl 
God 
the unknown
embryonic 
soul

In each of us
the common 
thread

Seams Sewn in Souls Strung like Pearls 
Cast out into the World

Different beds
Same Road
Home

(Lovejoy-Burton/September 2018)









1. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/15/style/sunni-colon-music.html...

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"Sewn" 

Super hero
come walk fire with me
all super heroes are freaks
fuelled by their hidden vulnerability 
and their dark cherished secrets

poets some consider romantic freaks
some hide quietly mining
whittling their time away,
some are hell-bent, heaven-sent
breaking glass ceilings

strange bitter sweet creatures 
writing in regiments 
riding astride their own...

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http://articles.latimes.com/2004/dec/25/nation/na-cowboy25

Either Sown or Sewn

or Flower or Flour

Either it is to be sewn or sown

Which one should be left alone?

Maybe small seeds or some stitching

Back and forth we are always switching.


Sown seeds will soon start to grow

Flexible fingers become when you sew

So if I should sew...

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Hello my love, it's dawn's first light
Time to end this time called night
I wish I may, I wish I might,
I did...Hold my love asleep so tight
 
Caring about nothing, having no fear
Just being together with those I hold dear
Silent shadows disappear with the thought of...

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Each eager for a fabric
woven with love classic
had ridden textile wagons 
thru much spastic traffic.
Seeking their prime patent 
of material fantastic, they 
both fell flattened in cloth 
scenes dramatic; wrinkle-doom, 
static dragons had torched 
all their wagons.

Then, a textile server sewed 
them together with threaded...

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Dressed in a jacket of tie dyed illusion
Measuring moments to spare
Dangling truth in the seams of confusion
Camouflaged, nothing to wear

Fastened by Velcro in heart strings of passion
Sewn with a lingering thread
Patterns on paper with words now in fashion
Running the walkway instead

Fabrics are woven of promised...

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My lips are sewn-

for silence is all I've ever known,

and all I was ever shown-

so to this habit, I too, became prone;

a habit that thrives, though I have grown.


My desires and goals shaded by a heart,

that was once so cold-

and continues to unfold,

and though I...

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Bare skull and cross bones
     existence on the peripheral
     outskirts of poker flats
lives a slip of a man,
     whereat he never felt deserving
     accolades linkedin 
   ...

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She cast out her net
The sweet fruit made her forget….
Her harvest to get...

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The wind
comes in at night,
bringing with it new ghosts
but I'm wrapped tight in mother's quilt, 
each painstaken swatch stitched by her own hand
She sings a breathy lullabye
and rocks me to sleep in
the cradle of
the wind...

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 God stitches together our life story
A patchwork quilt sewn meticulously
With all the best and tough times included
Not any experience excluded.

God watches over us and it does seem
That He doth perfectly sew a fine seam
Our quilt keeps on growing out in the mist
So we leave...

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She sat for hours 
Needle in hand
Stitching in silence 
Inviting medleys 

She stitched together 
Hues happy and glad
Brilliant and vibrant 
Inviting medleys

She threaded her needle
Gently with patience 
Taking time to create 
Inviting medleys 

She laced each stitch 
Careful, a caress
Against soft fabric 
Inviting medleys 

She...

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