LIFE QUILT
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Deborah is a quilter…she starts out with a plan…
finds her different colored fabric…then stitches them by hand.
I was admiring her handiwork the other day…when it occurred to me
How each life ...
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Categories:
sew together, life,
Form: Rhyme
Church
...The boy from yesterday
comes here and there
not sure where he is going
or where his path leads to...
I look at the pictures from old times
where his eyes where so different
he never liked wha...
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Categories:
sew together, loneliness,
Form: Free verse
A Time For Small Poets
...This is an age of blood;
an interesting era,
corn and potatoes rot in the fields
or are sold into slavery.
Money walks inside a Viking helmet,
Mars is rising red with anger.
This a time for p...
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Categories:
sew together, poetry,
Form: Free verse
An Uncertain Time In September
...light switch in the dark
fright switch
whirr of wings
unallocated
swift hither
pulse race over ice
bat
on the ceiling
fridge top
skitter of featherless wings
timid fear in the air
no...
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Categories:
sew together, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Third Row, Second Seat
...Third Row, Second Seat
The empty chair at church has a name.
It changes from time to time,
but remains somewhat if not always,
the same.
My friend "May" and I...
we talked about the los...
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Categories:
sew together, angel, atheist, christian, forgiveness,
Form: Free verse
New Days
...I see autumn clearing dead yellow leaves
And I hear the voice of a soft new breeze
Sweetly singing its new fresh tunes
Elating all those sad dry blues
These are the days for our love sake
Need...
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Categories:
sew together, inspirational, life,
Form: Free verse
Africa Looks At Them Fly Away
...Africa bereft for long
of needles and threads
to sew together costumes
to keep cool, warm, safe
in winter of their own life
and bind brotherhood thing
looked at 19th century fly
observed 20t...
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Categories:
sew together, africa, satire,
Form: Free verse
Voices In Silence
...Voices in Silence
You are the choice when I'm alone,
I’m the voice you hear on your own,
for no one else but us can hear,
That which to us is crystal clear.
Special the momen...
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Categories:
sew together, assonance, devotion, happiness, love,
Form: Free verse
What Should Be Punishment
...What Should Be Punishment
Surmise what we should do is analyze
What turned out to be a big surprise
And one more thing I want to mention
Saw a clown at a political convention.
In many countr...
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Categories:
sew together, allegory, analogy, anxiety,
Form: Couplet
A Poem Stitched In Love
...Bring me a needle,
Bring me some thread.
I'll stitch you a poem
That's never been read.
Each letter and word,
Ar...
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Categories:
sew together, love, me, together,
Form: Quatrain
Response To Matthew
...Mother and Father
as I release this bind,
I walk into individuation
and free myself of time.
I am female and male
wrapped into one.
I sew together duality
and return to the sun.
My light ...
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Categories:
sew together, introspectionlight, light,
Form: Rhyme