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Bobbins Poems - Poems about Bobbins


Premium Member Stroke-A-Back
...“Stroke-a-back stroke-a-back someone’s going to touch you in a moment from now, I’ll draw the snake but I won’t end it.” The old gas ligh......

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Categories: bobbins, remember,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Origins
...Sussanah great grandma times three a pillow puffed up on her knee with daughter Ann in cobbled Cowfair daily shaped their homespun ware such humble women ......

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Categories: bobbins, family, memory,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member The Lace Makers
...Sussanah,my great grandma,times three,a pillow puffed up on her knee;with daughter Ann in cobbled Cowfair,daily shaped their homespun ware.In such humble women,cottage-tied,a rare and dextrous ar......

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Categories: bobbins, family,
Form: Narrative
The Islands of Imagination
...THE ISLANDS OF IMAGINATION Our trek was in the mind, no ifs or buts : Our trek was amongst the yards of trading estate factories. First factory had piles of metal off-cuts - Pick ‘em......

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Categories: bobbins, childhood, imagination,
Form: Verse
Antiques Not For Sale
...The House is full of stuff my husband saves; A pair of bentwood rockers, goose-neck armed. His grandparents sat in these, discordant creaks Punctuating arguments. No one sits there now. There ......

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Categories: bobbins, grandparents, memory, nostalgia, old,
Form: Blank verse



Premium Member Further Family Stories Recited
...BLOTTED OUT He loved,but could not say such words,he could not find; He loved,but could not touch such warmth,was just too much; He was proud,but could not praise such sounds he could not raise; He s......

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Categories: bobbins, character, family, nostalgia,
Form: Bio
Premium Member Buckingham Lace
...Sussanah,my great grandma,times three,a pillow puffed up on her knee;with daughter Ann in cobbled Cowfair,daily shaped their homespun ware.In such humble women,cottage-tied,a rare and dextrous ar......

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Categories: bobbins, family, history, life, nostalgia,
Form: Prose Poetry
Brilliant Pool of Sunlight
...Brilliant rainbow arced into the sky Big house in center of the village A soft light bathed the large room wedding feast rice strewn about Greeted with loud handclapping Fogged gold-rimmed sp......

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Categories: bobbins, devotion, life, wedding,
Form: Verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things