Long Textiles Poems

I never got to dance with Mary Jane
although I heard she sure knows how to swing!
She has a twin, and he is masculine;
he doesn’t have his sister’s magic powers,
her mystic way of calming people down
or...

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You're a waste of a man
The last choice for a sane person
The weirdest weirdo amidst weirdos
You just don't fit in —
Like a pole climbing strap
Trying to be forced into a blue Jeans
What an abuse of...

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The sand is stained red
with our bygone blood,
the blood that brought us from Ararat to the Alti,
a tribe trekking intrepidly through the Eurasian terrain,
caravans of Caucasians clad with Celtic tartan twills
plaids upon the pale horse...

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They stand alone in stark contrast to their surroundings.  Derelict, they speak of a time past, when they played a role in, no, were the heart of the community.  Gone is the smoke...

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Leisurely sat on a busy beach
A hive of noise and activity
A collage of shifting 
Shape and colour form
Just casually surveying the view

I felt the hot intense expanding rays Of the sun
Scorch and burn my sensitive...

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Magnetic attraction, enchanting dream of a lifetime -
	majestic pyramid attracts my eye, 
	mystique draws me in
	
O, your architecture! Pavilions, colonnades; art enclosing art,
	every square inch deliberately designed,
	ceilings pour forth scintillating splendor
	
Antiquities from Rome, Egypt, the...

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They made mammon somethng measurable, mighty, & magnificent,
everywhere that labor, exchange, & entertainment exist monuments
to money, large and small,

the genesis was excess manufacture 
such as grain, gold, textiles & ceramics,
animals & people,
purveyors were born like...

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Splintering away from all that matters
Burdens of trust shred my brain to tatters
Gratitude infects while I glimpse your face
Hurdles abound to perk my apathy
Until I'm stung by that buzzing wrath bee
Bold cup full of bliss...

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At home, on Amazon, hibernating from pestilence and logic, 
I searched for happiness in contrivances, wastes, and textiles. 
No game, but hunting. I watched my only life sunk
into a Broyhill sofa, sometimes hunkering, sometimes sprawled,...

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Alphonse Mucha's art was so influential it helped create Art Nouveau.
A flamboyant sensuous style, with softness, swirls, curls and beauty.
It heralded and celebrated new art as a counterpoint
to the dawn of the harsh steel and...

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I remember the silhouette
From her stares and gestures
How they gracefully slithered
Through minds and seasons
The silk in her demeanor
How it sucked un-weaved roughage
And tilted edges of dispositions
Until moments stood firm
She only had one niddle of hope
With...

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Frolicking minds under benevolent skies
Set into motion spectacular emotions
Painting orange hues on silken textiles
As lovers embark on a path to paradise

Horizon bends listening to ocean tidings
Emanating from voices of rippling images
When twilight beams refract under...

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O Serenissima,*fabled city 
guarding the bluest lagoon, remain
the Queen of the Adriatic Sea;
on a gondola I glide while
the gondolier sings to luminous stars.

Under bridges of moonlight,
mysteries increase by the dozen;
standing on the Bridge Of Sighs,
a...

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Nile beams as proud Mother of the land, 
it's benefactory, gland.
Rushes to tend, to lend her foster 
fauceted facet of hand-maidening 
brand of bands in bend.
Oasic endow'n.
Matriarch, life blood gives, with arch of brow,
busy busy...

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Ripe, fresh, new and tender are names she should bear.
I am 17, she’s 16, both alone and innocent
in a partially illuminated room.
She possesses while seated,
expanding hips, lines of fleshy diversions,
small dark shadows and shades of...

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Patients in and out within the backdrop of muted rose walls, blue carpet, 
dark wood and purple plaid textiles. As faces changed, colors clashed. 
One young girl wore scarlet shoestrings and a gold skirt topped...

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Swastika
Author: fjamesj9701


The peace your arms once moved humanity and grace
Of luck and prosperity now echoes through nightmares and disgrace
For thousands of years you reperesnted so many cultures
Until propaganda branded you into an image of slaughter
You...

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Green represents one of the sourest apple candies.
Green grass surrounded by the forests of the Andes. 
Green is a color of nature, plants, amphibians and reptiles.  
Green is used in fabric for our textiles....

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People who are addicted to texting are textiles.
Ever have lunch with a textile?
You find yourself looking at the top of the textile's head...
more than their eyes...
Every so often they look your way, cross-eyed.
Head bobbing (like...

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Spindled Mettle
 
Hour upon hour she sits thoughtfully absorbed
spinning attentively conception’s fibers 
while creating new textures within her mind…

As grain, by grain of living sand, erodes the weaves
exposing gently or tearing the woven seams…
following the...

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Love is in the air 
I can smell love on flowers
I can see love in the rays that the sun shines on the earth
I find love when standing on top of the highest mountain 

Love...

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Saw some quilts constructed
In the Civil Wartime years,
One made by a soldier, 
Not as strange as it appears.

Cloth was cut from uniforms,
With both sides represented – 
Harmony in textiles
Way before some men repented.

Wonder what that...

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Nymphéas


You wanted to linger in the Montmartre
where the shops were full 
of colorful Arab textiles,
I wanted to take the train to Giverny
to see the water lilies.

The shopping was a distraction for you,
the nymphaea a hope...

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