Bobbins Poems - Poems about Bobbins

...I open Mother's sewing basket, letting my eyes and hands run over the tools she had used—the scissors, the darning egg, the pinking shears, the pins, the tattered, tomato-shaped pincushion, and spool......

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...“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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...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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...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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...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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...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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...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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...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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...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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