Blue-checkered curtains are faded and drawn,..
after the years since she made them from gunny-sack cloth
The Singer, long idle, now gathers more dust,
with its needle still threaded and the treadle at rest
As I clear out the room, I think of long hours
of foot-peddled power, and strength in her soul.
She would unroll the fabric of roses and flowers,
with determined resilience in dark circled eyes.
But prudence, endurance, would salvage a way
Abandoned and left in a sea of lost dreams
She picked up the pieces, of patterns and hems
Making a living, and raising her kin,
didn't come easy, but she had to win
A life left unraveled, she must sew up again.
Working past midnight. Spindles would spin. Somehow rekindled
to live once again.
Making ends meet. Selvedge edges and hems
Sowing her heart, sowing her skill, and sowing her soul
Sewn together again
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4/20/18
Categories:
selvedge, courage, endurance, family, nostalgia,
Form: Free verse
Like spindled glass,
remnants filter in timeless twine,
Peaceful moments - retrieve the silence,
Like new velvet stockings, ladders await.
Time itself fraught, with abandon abate...
Yet nestled high, marooned with intrigue,
Time still time, in search origin with trace.
Times silky sands neath craggy rocks,
every rain drop accounted?
every snowflake free?
remnants filter in timeless twine,
Time retires countless moments,
With our memoirs we agree to disagree.
We selvedge our past tenths,
The lucrative lessons we behold,
Our well worn velvet stockings,
few ladders some bereft,
This future has unfold,
remnants filter in timeless twine,
Time retires countless moments...
Time retires Time...
Categories:
selvedge, art, goodbye,
Form: Concrete
terrorist you are not
the chosen,
you are not the future,
you're violence in the bin
failure to move with time
ensures you, your faith
left behind
terrorist not worth selvedge
set adrift - desert marooned
archaic resolution-
self target looms
terrorist success a myth
demon leader revealed
coward concealed
"madman" not fit to hold power,
unstable faith,
parallel history, future mistake
unorthodox prejudice
self appointed crusader
opponent under the radar
self sacrifice denied
false profit rejected
question mental status?
question mental?
the destroyer of what God
created will succumb
at the mercy, self bomb
the man of true faith,
God will empower, measured
the needs of many-not few
we will have peace...
with or without you
Categories:
selvedge, passion, prejudice,
Form: Lyric