Best Textile Poems

People who are addicted to texting are textiles.
Ever have lunch with a textile?
You find yourself looking at the top of the textile's head...
more than their eyes...
Every so often they look your way, cross-eyed.
Head bobbing (like a baby bird searching for its mothers' mouth),
Chirping vague words...

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Textile Arts/Fashion Design

I took pattern making autumns ago
I measured and cut a bodice to sew 
A vintage cocktail dress trimmed with mojo
Louie Fifteen Courts would never forgo                  ...

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Nests of weaver birds 
                                   hanging down from the palmyra palm
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I
life's tapestry:
neat surface - chaos below -
not Chinese needlepoint

II
in - out; on - off
life, death, light, dark, cycles:
universal tapestry...

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