Long Knitting Poems

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The Spider Returns

All Hallows Eve regardless
Not Easter or birthdays
Tenacity of critters
Got me swirling in a haze

They get into the bathtub
The sink or in the car
Lord knows just where they come from
But they haven't traversed far

So often I must rescue 
Whether delicate or tall 
Re-house them to the log-pile
As they can't ascend the wall

In shameless eight-legged tap dance
They weave and spin and twirl
Like death defying knitting
Timeless pattern they unfurl

Close up they're pretty ugly
But the beauty they create
Captures sunlight in the morning
Or a night time dinner date 

I hope you have a lifetime 
Knowing what it means to give
For I Love you, little critter
As you teach us how to live

CV


Happy Birthday

Happy birthday to me.
I shall have a wonderful day, today and always.
It is a significant day in my life.
the Western and Lunar Calendar both coincided.
As the day I was welcome to this world.
A mile stone of my life journey.
Thank God for blessing me.
With many surprises and less materials desires.
From normal appearances with low maintenance
To possess few simple talents.
From photographic memories with numbers and days,
To play many music instruments by the ears.
From being creative to artistic.
From analyzing problem to solving it.
With abundant passion of fighting for justice.
I love my life but loathe unpleasant surprises.
Which seemed attracted to me,
One way or another, lot of times.
It was so wonderful and I was blessed to meet A,
Who spent ten incredible years unconditionally loving me.
For the first time in my life, he put the 21+ candles
On a cake for me to blow on my birthday.
Now many years later, I still vividly remember, 
How he was always there for me,
To take away some of my life's issues.
He never took advantage of me,
Despite, all of his life, days or nights,
He always loved women by his side.
Imagine this, at the age of 23,
His beautiful wife being the 13th woman in his romantic life.
He loved me with mixed feelings and unconditionally.
Whenever I hoverred my memories,
Surprisingly, there were times,
When I was completely alone in a room with a man,
Some how, none of them dared to have any inappropriate behaviours.
So, was I naive and unattractive, or being protected?
Now, counting on my blessing,
I seemed to have everything,
Except true love and romance.
Acquired, managed and disposed investment properties.
Enjoy walking, travelling, knitting, singing, and playing music,
Nothing in my life was simple and unique.
In every aspect, could one imagines,
With 6 men passed me by in my adult life,
I was proposed 5 times, engaged to one, and married another.
Gave birth to two beautiful children.
But never been kissed.
That was how romantic with my life.
Never mind. That is life and I will be fine.
© C33 B66  Create an image from this poem.

pink jersey : traditional pirouette

[Poet’s Note : this is a wry autobiographical memory written in traditional pirouette verse viz. 2 quintains, line 5 & 6 repeat, which is the toe turnaround. I wanted to write a narrative of a weird syncopated vignette, when I was knitting a pink mohair jersey at the time of my imprisonment. I reduced the narrative to a pirouette. When in prison, one of my interrogators was knitting the EXACT jersey in the exact colour & exact wool ! ie. in the final analysis, (in retrospect) everything in human life can be reduced to a pirouette, a turn-around dance ! ]

knitting a pink jersey
mohair with cables fine
to process flying thoughts
political activist 
south africa turmoiled

south africa turmoiled
security police
came with casspirs and cuffs
interrogation chamber
police knit jersey pink

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Form: Other

Premium Member Brokenheart -Re Submit-

..................   L  I                                  L  O
                Y            F                       Y             V                         
           M         H        E                M        G           E                
       F   O   R   E  V  E  R             E   T   E   R  N    A   L                    
     L     E    N    O    R    E          L     E    N    O    R     E
  E   N   T   W   I   N   E   D       E   N   T   W   I  N   E   D
 Always  with  my HearT  I         Always with true Feeling
Love You, my Dearest WIFE        ALWAYS with Emotions
My  Love grows like an oak        My  Heart beats for YOU
Mighty  and E v e r l a s t I n g       MY  TEARS  are  Real 
 YOU  are  M Y  STRENGTH         Yet My Heart still Aches
  FOR YOU LIVE in  ME            Though You live with GOD
   ETERNAL  B L I S S        YOU wear the gown of Angels
     INFINITE  P U R E        YOU carry my Heart in Yours
       You grow in my heart     EACH  and   EVERY   Day 
         The LOVE grows and   I am at  Peace KNOWING
            As  LOVE  Grows          In my  BROKEN Heart 
              Constantly Knitting        cracks and Fissures
                My  Dearest Beloved    Tenderly  Mended
                    Repairing Loneliness   My Wife Lenore
                       Angelically Smiles   Eternally Loved
                          MY Only Most        B E L O V E D
                              L  I  F  E        L  E  N  O  R  E
                                  Always      F O R E V E R
                                      YOU    My  Heartbeat
                                          Are   My   S O U L
                                              MY      W I F E
                                                One  Breath
                                                    N e v e r
                                                      Alone
                                                      YOU
                                                       And
                                                          I
Form: Concrete

Premium Member If and When, It Depends

Knit one purl one, knit two together.
Drop a stitch, it runs.
Unpick, pick-up the loops one by one, 
align them, precisely, nicely right,
on your knitting needle.
Get back to counting sheep to sleep
where you left off.
Knit one, purl one, knit two together.
Repeat to end of line.

Seams unseemly, jeans too loose.
Letting out is needed.
Stitch-picker to the rescue.
Pry and poke the needle in
and cut unseemly threads that bind
and hold the seams together.
But if it hurts, depends 
on when you have your stitches out. 

To pick up the pieces,
swivel and swing, parry and prise 
those pick-up sticks in turnpike prickly stack,
red ones, green ones, blue and violet.
It's up to you to choose, the piece you want to lose
without jostling, moving or shaking any other piece.
For if it wobbles, ever so slightly,
your friends will notice
and you lose.


Premium Member Treasured Possession

Bottle of Vodka, one knitting needle

We only sell knitting needles in pairs.

Of course, you do. All good things come in pairs.

Would you like a bag for life, save the planet.

A bag for life would be wonderful.


He lied, she thought.

But that was just typical of men.

She should show him the bag.

You said it was a bag for life.

But it’s not.

Look inside, you lied.


She sure didn’t feel good

Blood and blob

The Vodka did the job

Flush the lie

Now she could die


She didn’t die

Just cried

It didn’t help

Just the way she felt


Time moves on

Secret stays hidden

Tomorrow's another day

Just another day

But life is strange


He noticed she was heavily pregnant

Nice to see you’re still saving the planet

Yes, we all have to do our part

A bag for life

Treasured possession.
© Paul Bell  Create an image from this poem.

Premium Member Nature's Newstruggling Spirit

I have no rational faith
that I can remember,
much less with full-will to comprehend,
spiritual Beings as progenitors
of natural becomings

No faith in "God" as ProGenitor of DNA/RNA 
naturally fractal 
round orchestrations
evolving regenerate systems
for economically enlightened co-invested relationships,
or politically co-empowering compassion.

No faith in exhaling purgative decomposition,
reductive pathological Evil and Death analysis of
mindbody experience
without prior appositional, dipolar
healthy wealth of information,
fractal strings of (0) soul dialectical polymorphs
confluently optimizing neuro-sensory 
win/win co-reception
and responsive experience of healthy regenerative 
"EarthGod" is good
enlightened inhalation,
empowering absorption,
resilient ego/eco-consciousness

Peak Beloved Climaxing 
Win/Win crowning 
cooperative communication,
reiterating primal relationships of mutual-solidarity
positive/negative co-gravitational 
re-connecting co-messianic intent.

I have rational bicameral faith
that we can each and all fully comprehend
ego/eco co-binary bodhisattva partnering consciousness
as EgoBody Yang
Positive-Left Thought = NotNotNegative-Right Feeling
EcoMind Yintegrity
restorative binomial equity.

Here, in this polymorphic timespace
metasystemic mindbody sacred place,
we may rediscover treasured wealth without walls
of cytosine-biocentric QByte/8-bit reverse hierarchical
+/(-,-) 0-binary, double-bound temporal/spatial 
bipartisan dipolar apposition
normative liberating/conservational
passion/pleasure fractals
reforming eco-political historic knotting 
herstoric knitting
resonant octave empowering sound frequencies 
of Earth's green/blue/white/grey network crown
enlight/darkening seasonal neuro-systemic harmonics.

DNA health wisdom 
leading toward our dual 
EarthTribe her/history, 
divinely humane 
compassionate destiny.

Benevolence Issues Forth Courtesy Mine Eldest Sibling

Thee nonpareil Amelie Beth Harris-McGeehan
blessed honest to dog goodness her person doth bring
never could her brother wish upon NON GMO
(archaeopteryx, buffalo, chicken...) wing,
and genuine prayer anybody more a maze zing.

Many countless years before
our dear mother passed away four
plus eleven earth orbitz ago,
she voluntarily repeated more
times than I can remember "your
older sister possesses altruistic qualities."

The above words enclosed by this bloke
with double quotation marks, okey-doke
not necessarily the way mama spoke,
but yours truly took poetic liberty

without any intention generating impulse to choke
the harmless, nameless, and stateless writer
and literally went bonkers 
while going for Baroque
for recognized virtue that recently woke.

Kinship towards angelic, fantastic, pacific anchor
understandable why her spouse did hanker
during their courtship to pledge his troth
to maneuver metaphorical
hook, line, and sinker as though steadying a tanker.

Innocence and naïveté suffused little boy
occupying body of aging long haired
pencil necked geek without gainful employ
and (and as a shy person without benefit
of powdered milk biscuits)
generally trended solitary
verses masing with hoi polloi,

nevertheless ofttimes relentlessly teased
bully me, I loathed treatment on par
with worthlessness linkedin with discarded toy,
thus gratitude prevails toward eldest sibling
(no matter just thirteen plus months older)
pseudo motherhood she did deploy
to ward off aggressive monsters.

I reckon eyes appreciation
matured into present thankful attitude,
now with mooch time to ponder and brood
how earlier in my life behavior childish and crude
methought meself as hotshot dude,

yet these days, I couch sincerity writing
one or another poetic endeavor
knitting words analogous to composing an etude
contemplative, intuitive, and ruminative mental food

for thought hoop ping to convey 
honest to goodness gratitude
communicating reasonable rhyming message
(if yee be downcast dearly beloved sister)
delivering uplifting, kickstarting exalting mood.
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Winter's End

5 in the morn, it is getting light
Winter's ending its long respite

Spring is upon us, daff's delight
Gone are the days we so dislike

Even folk's as unseen, reappear
Full of enthusiasm, full of cheer

The front gardens full of chatter
Time to discuss all that matters

Pets, lounging, in the warm sun
Come summer, the heat, no fun

Clean our windows and why not
Keeping eyes on wandering tots

Doors open, can smell the toast
Gran's knitting, she's engrossed

Gramp's away down in the shed
Garden aids, for the flower beds

Darn weeds come rain, or shine
Choke the flowers they entwine

5 in the morn, it is getting light
Winter's ending it's long respite
Form: Couplet

Premium Member Singing, Knitting, Painting, Drama Composing

     Song to love, song to listen and song to sing.
     In life, Music holds a specific meaning.
     In list of hobbies, Music at top to bring.

     Knitting is carried on through maternal gene.
     In this trend both my Grandma and Mom were keen.   
     Natural skill continuing from my teen.

     Since childhood,  Drawing - Painting : My recreation.
     Simultaneously those are my creations
     Not as an expert but I wish to mention.

      Composed Drama being a story - Writer 
      As such, script writing became my hobby later.
      Stage performance - Telecast displayed better.
Form: Rhyme

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