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Nine Inch Nails, Ten Pins and the Purl Stitch

"Nine Inch Nails, Ten Pins and the Purl Stitch"



She takes the cake 
they offer, chewing too rapidly, 
she Shrews when she speaks 
I’ll beat warpath drums, she says, 
no mistake

I’m a groper ... goody two shoes
she says

mouth wide open
songs problematic 
she's done and she's gone
a stitch loose in the weave
drop one pearl one 

dropped 
gone

for kissing small bait in the shallows
she circles her quarry 
bites their backs 
she sits astride 
the legs of a hot gripping story

sits like a monkey 
begging for peanuts
she spits in comments
I'm thoroughly congruent 
in moments of questionable torrent

I am all here
dear boy
dear girl
knit one 
drop one pearl hooray

I am all here, here hearing
all seeing, all knowing
I throw it back 
and I’ll give you 
the crux of the crutch

all knowing
make no mistake.

my good god 
I don’t care
I don’t care
do we care?
I don’t care.

truly I eat their sour pears,
place more wax in my ears
she throws pearls 
decorously adorning 
the minds of sows’ rears

left wing molting
a mouth full of feathers  
right wing feeding them
she’s all knowing
bling bling bling bling

bling bling
bowling ball glowing

Ten pins 

preparing minds
sharp needles
and yarns

Purl Stitch 
knit one, 
drop one
knit one 
drop one

win

(LadyLabyrinth / 2021)







“Ram” – Paul, Linda Mcartney
https://youtu.be/dQwdanGKILI








We're so sorry, uncle Albert
But we haven't done a bloody thing all day


We're so sorry, uncle Albert
But the kettle's on the boil
And we're so easily called away


Hands across the water, water
Heads across the sky
Hands across the water, water
Heads across the sky







"Sit by my side, and let the world slip: we shall ne'er be younger."

"There's small choice in wrotten apples".

"If I be waspish, best beware my sting.”


I See Beauty

Brimful words deny a rain
Veiling all the layers of strain.
On the wings of time wounds fly
A rage swallowed with no sigh.
One soul, of beauty a sea
For each dark, twin light I see.
When Self unleashed, strength at reach
A wisdom deserved to preach.
Brightened beats stage a warm heart
Wealth of music, words,  fine art.
Invincible souls soar high
With wonderful worlds ally.
For each heart there is a home
With every pain joy would foam.
Drops of awe in silence purl
Sink a void and raise a pearl.
Climb mountains and oceans cross
A fresh Life you come across.
Their very feel the words scratch
What is inside they can touch.
Lots to see for souls to be
In a bid to be, Beauty.


December  14th, 2018
Form: Couplet

Premium Member The Maker

The Maker : Knit and Purl


The Maker wields the needles
 of predestination and free will,
One in each strong, talented hand. 
Knitting the yarn and thread of our lives
Into the fabric of time with such love.
Knit ,with predestination;
His will is done.
Purl ,with free will;
Our choices made.
Knit and purl, purl and knit,
The pattern known to Him and yet 
allowed to be as it is, who it is. 
It is when choice agrees with His will
That the pattern becomes 
as beautiful as He intended. 
Until the tapestry of lives
 form who we are, why we are.
Interlocking with others,
Becoming part of the
 pattern of all things.
The Enemy cuts
With sharp shears of deceit.
 Maniacally ripping jagged holes.
The Maker patiently mends
With healing truth and love.
Knit and purl, purl and knit
Until we are whole again.
Form:

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Premium Member A Medley of Monoku

A MEDLEY OF MONOKU

a tarnishing of golden years – the murmurings of madness

homeless amid the rubble – the acrid stench of flames

knit one, purl…  three kittens – one ball of yarn

a darkened window – separation

too good – too soon – too bad

streetlights and snowflakes – pixilated mirage

table for one – check please

in the midst of plenty – the alleys lie

cold terror - silence – screaming in the darkness

obsession’s deadline – three nips until noon

questions without answers – battery failure

sad bells call the faithful – unaware they are not

failure – potential, rotting on the vine

cur dogs – an angry mob – feeding off each other

©12/22/2017
John G.  Lawless
Form: Monoku


Premium Member From a Deck Chair

Into the mystic and blue water purl
  I watch in motion season’s changing guard,
and rising ocean drafts its far depths swirl
  up silica sandstone cliffs steeped and scarred.
Where silver eucalypts shadow the sea,
  and apple blossom in pink clusters soon
shed soft petals till fruit hangs from its tree -
  and chrysalis to butterfly cocoon.
Hear the honey bees and songbirds’ refrain
  as the September sun over Torbay
invites perennial chorus again -
  and new buds open upon a new day.
From my deck chair I’ll kick back tomorrow 
when spring’s bow lets fly El Nino’s arrow.


             Written: September 1995
Form: Sonnet

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 Music of my youth

new year's teenage must
casey kasem counting down
the top one hundred

led zeppelin
a whole lotta love up the
stairway to heaven

hey jude
bringing me up
when I'm down

mamas and papas
california dreamin'
~ idle winter days

knit one purl one
two-tone phentex slippers
to beatles tunes

elvis
love me tender
with caramel kisses

engelbert
singing his heart out
a man without love

beach boys
god only knows
whispered in the rain

tom jones and
green green grasses
of home

sounds of silence stir
with simon and garfunkel
darkness an old friend

otis sitting
on the dock of the bay
till evening comes

me and mrs jones
sax and blues
the morning after

barry white
can't get enough of your love
on red satin sheets

nancy sinatra
strutting her custom boots
made for walking

neil diamond
sings to
sweet caroline

cash johnny and june
getting married in a fever
~ lifetime parole

patsy cline
crazy
missing you

band of five
driving old dixie down
into the night

janis joplin
hanging out with me
and bobby mcgee

playing the cd
jesus christ superstar
each sunday

cher
halfbreed
by harvest moon

last schoolbus run
alice the first out
no summer school

joni mitchell
hailing
big yellow taxi

santana
catering to his
black magic woman

pink floyd
laying another brick
in the wall

john lennon
imagine
dark clouds rolling in

c c r
putting a spell on you
just because they can

elvis still asking
if you're lonesome
he's willing to sing

memories of
hotel california
you can never leave

hemming bell bottoms
summer radio blaring
to seventies tunes
Form: Senryu

Our Beloved Page One

Page 1

1963

I sent you away from me to look for our beloved.
I watched you fade in the distant as you walked down the dusty foot-path towards town.
My dull brain craves the lost opportunity to prevail upon you of my broken spirit. 
The sun shined brightly on the magnolia trees and blossom azalea bushes, but my vision is locked on your fading figure down that long dusty foot-path.
For hours I stood in the doorway until the evening sky ingest the sun.

Escaping the nuisance sting of mosquitoes, the croaking of frogs, and the longing calls of the loon, I managed to move my stiff body to my knitting chair near the water stain window.
But not a purl could I make, and so I sat consumed with illogical and negative thoughts until the rooster announced the dawn.
An encouraging thought my mind doth not bring as I watched your woeful soul kick up the dust of the foot-path with your shabby boots.
A defeatist frail of a man was you as you made those hesitant steps in my direction.
Perfervid loathing eclipsed my heart as you move nearer and nearer, closing the distance between us.

I did not care to treat the bruises on your face and body.
I did not want to caress you nor offer you consoling words to comfort you and ease your troubled heart.
No, not with an afflicted heart.
No words could explain the emptiness I felt for you.
You grab for me to comfort.
I slapped you and turned away.
A storm was raging inside of me. 
Nothing was distinctly visible around me.
I resisted strongly the upsurging of unconsciousness.

No disguises of truth were acceptable.



Continue on page 2

copyright@Library Of Congress Looking At The Light From The Bottom Of The Lake.
Form: Narrative

Premium Member She Likes To Knit Her Noodles

Her chopsticks are at the ready.
Her hands are good and steady.
She likes to knit her noodles!
The task has just begun...

She starts off with a mango Welt
With pride, with zest, with tang.
It's a mesmerising watch
While the wiggling noodles hang.

Next. She's on to saucy Stocking Stitch.
Her garment sure does grow!
Knit one - Purl one - Knit two together
On each tasty row.

And this main course is called
" Knit Purl Chopstick Cha "
With a curry Cabled centre,
With sides of paprika Purl and Knit korma.

And as an extra tasty treat
BBQ Rib Raglan is on the menu.
Trust me! This kind of cuisine
Can't be found in any old venue!

From there on, the sleeves do drop
Like the soy sauce shaken a top.
Neatly Knitted are the Ribs.
Who voted for fish and chips?

To finish this fine course...
Knit - Slip - Knit - Pass Slip Stitch over.
This will make the button holes
For the chocolate to melt all over.

And on completion, these knitted noodles
Slide straight on down her throat...
Before we've had a chance to prove her skill
This talent to others gloat!
Form: Rhyme

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