Long Seamstresses Poems

WOMEN ...

Truly amaze me ... they possess the super-human
strength to birth a child - one of the most painful
and demanding physical and emotional feats of end-
urance known to our species - yet they have the
self-confidence...

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Conditions were harsh out in Kansas,
For the children and Sarah and Paul.
Neighbors and friends packed up and were gone;
Headed west they could hear fortune's call.
Never sure year to year of the harvest,
So their talents were...

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I remember my mom having a collection of hats she stored under her bed.
For any occasion that could arise…she had a hat to set atop her head.

Moms of today are different…often they go out with...

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When I was young my mom, like most women, donned a hat when she went out.
Dad said it added to her beauty…of this I had no doubt.

My mom had a collection of hats she stored...

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DURAN KORAN

Banners blow while a silken flag waves
Both signifying a country gone awry
Men dig ever more six foot deep graves
As I stand aside and wonder why

American flags must surely be costly 
What with all that...

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A needle: a small, thin object
with a sharp point that mends
our open wounds. 

Sewing needles are polished
and used by seamstresses
to keep our clothes 
stitched and tailored.
Acupuncture needles,
a traditional remedy believed
to heal the body and mind.

Fresh...

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Reading diaries of different discussion blots is considered to be akin to perusing the top shelf of a historical library section. Each label once worn drops like stones sinking into the carpet and creases of...

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Tribute to Dawn of Day: Stories from the Underground Railroad

From
Tennessee 
Virginia 
Mississippi
Kansas
Wisconsin
To free states in the north and Canada 
I grieved  upon the grave of the slave
Tears circling the tomb
Securing his name 
For their...

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An engagement 
of five souls with the
tailor who sheared 
our spirits from
a common bolt.

His patchwork creations
of common genes
aligned our spirits
within a sisterhood 
of natural blood.

We are one
we are individual
We are sisters

We were all cut 
from...

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(...surely goodness and mercy will follow me all of my days and I will dwell in the house of the Lord forever. Psalm 23:6)

Shirley, Goodness and Mercy, angels three
Have been protecting me all of my...

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(...surely goodness and mercy will follow me all of my days and I will dwell in the House of the Lord, forever. Psalm 23:6) 

Shirley, Goodness and Mercy, angels three,
Have been following me all of...

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I have come to a strange town
The streets have changed their names
The roads have given ways to gigantic flyovers
The bushes have given ways to codominiums and giant one-stop shopping centres
Few  pedestrians on the roads
People...

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...surely goodness and mercy will follow me all of my days and I will dwell in the House of the Lord, forever. Psalm 23:6

Shirley, Goodness and Mercy, angels three
Have been following me all of my...

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Sixty two fat cats hold tight  on their riches .
The poorest of people have to make do with scraps from the table .
Yet in a slum of a work place, The seamstresses eyes strain...

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Wondering how fairies obtain dresses?
It's because they have fairy seamstresses
Sewing with pine needles and spidery
Gathered from spiders fine web filigree.

Pretty petals for fabric, leaves for shoes
Smelling of sweet fragrant floral perfume
Flowers to adorn their flowing...

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Empty the prisons
let felons romp free 
get rid of the police
disarm the peeps
a catastrophic experiment
done at the expense of citizens
crime surging to all time highs
covid-19 has eaten all the baseballs
riots are America's new past time
the...

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