Sewed Poems - Poems about Sewed

... I once knew a seer, name of Hortense Who specialized in ominous portents Said I should marry a toad Long as he cleaned and he sewed I said, ‘You go first ~ It ma......

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... Written: July 18, 2025, for contest Sponsored by: Tom Woody Walking around the edge of a massive crater that seemed to beckon her with all sorts of bizarre things, Alice—now an adult but still......

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...“It's a girl!” The female form, the rounded edges that soothe and nurture Shaped and created by gentle hands to fit a shoulder under a heavy arm Beast of burden I was formed this way and n......

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...What if dawn hesitates at my window, afraid to wake the refugee's dreams? I teach my shadow to walk ahead— it knows the Damascus streets I've never seen. My homeland lives in my mother's teacup......

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...Loitering around at the expense of my parents back, I too wish to be at the resemblance of hardworking thumbs, those same fingers that sewed the futile grounds back home, my mother’s yuc......

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...A is for gasoline and matches B is for Las Cruces, Lincoln County and Natchez C is for zebras wearing stripes D is for frozen broken pipes E is girls with long ......

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...I loved you with both hands broken, offered you oceans cupped in cracked palms, watched it leak, leak, leak, through fingers too battered to hold a tide. I made myself a museum of becoming, st......

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...You entered my silence like a violin bow dragged with blood through shattered stained glass I sewed your laughter under my eyelids and lungs, and the light transformed into myriads of fragrant wound......

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...Women of a certain age Remember, when in school, Boys did woodwork, girls Home economics, as a rule. The boys made houses for the birds – They sanded, sawed and nailed While girls both cooke......

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...Her mother was a seamstress, her aunts and grandma too She had grown up into it naturally, serious seamstress Sue. Her house was full of fat quarters, there were pins on her floor Tiny bits of emb......

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... Times colours wrap around seasonal dreams Weaving pictorial thinking with silken words That sew themselves to the pictures you see, While warp and weft combine to story tell Of life within the ......

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...Being forced to move places, Because I have no control. It shows how stuck I am; How reliant I am; How not free I am. I am seventeen, feels like I could be ten. Holed up in buildings, Like a d......

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...they called her cinder, called her dust a girl to scorn, a thing to crush but embers sleep and coals still burn and wicked hands will take their turn she sewed her gown from moonlit screams sp......

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...I still can't get over you, My heart still skips a beat When I hear you name, and I miss you I miss you beyond amiss. So what do I do now? What can I do alone? cause you took my smile away, ......

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...One couple pledge A marriage vow Build golden dream. Together bound Sewed a love thread Desiring trend. Side by side sit Facing altar Promise each kept. Hand in hand grip Switching ri......

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