Needlework Poems

Needlework of a Quiet Mind

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Written: May 2nd, 2025 for Brian Stand contest

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spools of emotion

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stitching memory

a pat...

Sewing Circle

...A Beautiful Collection


Artistic. Brilliant colours. Dainty embroidery.

Fragile golden hues in jewelled kaftans.

Light multicoloured needlework on patchwork quilts.

Rich silken tapes...

Leftover Wool

...When my knitting queen aunt
Feels that needlework pull,
She starts knitting some squares
Using leftover wool.

They’re rectangles, really,
With colorful stripes,
Their patterns and stitches 
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What Are We

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It is the grey of evening...soft lamps glow as our hood readies itself for some crumbs of comfort:

Old widows wrap themselves with pillows for third- hand affection,
Children yawn sur...

The Chair

...To the one who sat here so very long ago
Rooted, I daresay, with so many things to sow
Your needlework is etched upon the faded fabric
Where the story you convey, is interwoven magic

Between th...

My Birth Place

...Cape Comorin  (Kanyakumari) of Tamil Nadu,
Might be copious of the core concept called Xanadu;
Indian Ocean, Bay of Bengal, Arabian Sea, 
Amalgamate and mingle here, like mermaids, full of glee......

Needlework Footles

...Backstitch

scratch mine
scratch thine

Straight Stitch

boring
snoring

French Knot

pie-eyed
tongue tied

Satin Stitch

glossy
bossy

Fea...

A Letter of a Sis

...Dearest sister-in law, 
 
Today, I met the person,  
you tried in your match-making effort for me. 
He was quite a nice one! 
Although, it did not offer  
stemming much of other thoughts, other...

The Pierced Nothing

...Her skin is textured fabric
and a lovely pair of…odd eyes of ink
 black and sheen green.
Cherry cheeks, heavy-handed
 for his amusement.

Lips sewn to silence
just the way he likes her...

Eleanor

...Eleanor instinctively knows the language of the great mathematicians
The other women consider her peculiar
She does no needlework
Pines after no man
Her daddy trains her to follow his profession....

Embroidered

...I got a SoupMail; didn’t know
Who sent it, so I read it.
A person found a poem of mine
And had the thought to thread it.

By that, I mean embroidery – 
She stitched it, oh, so neatly,
To make ...

Weave of Life's Fabric

... Sewing machine, long idle, gathered dust
Polished now in the  hallway, my  fond antique
Recalling Grandaunt’s delicate craftwork--
Each pattern of fabric threaded  with zest,
As her han...

The Hot Mom and the Pool Boy - a Poetrysoup Collaboration

...The day was long and she was spent
off to the pool our hot mom went
asked for some lotion
and dreamlike potion
drifting away she was content

Before to long she had awoke
sounds of pleasure th...

Things

...Things

Things . . . 
Things?
Things!
Just ordinary
Things.
Familiar Things.
Everyday Things.
Obvious Things.
Even trivial Things.


Things seen
Front on or 
From an angle.
Things gli...

Liatra

...Pasha Acremodios grew greedy,
discontented with the domain he dominated,
so he turned covetous eyes toward Farabia,
sending his soldiers to seize this ripened plum

Spoiling for a fight and figh...

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