Short Crocheted Poems

Homemade baked goodies 
knitted quilts and crocheted towels 
grandma's on the loose...

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white crocheted lace stretched
tight upon mucadines' trellis...
winter's bullace grape  ...

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Yesterday's acres are forever green

stretched over distance and time

crocheted with strong thread




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5/30/14 Kimo Contest Sponsored by Amy Green...

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Snowflakes fall like white crocheted dollies
upon the warm soil of spring’s earth
their fragile kisses melting
They caress the crocus
pucker up to buds
on the maple
give a peck
to the
cat....

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If you do not remember this granny squared poncho
Then you are a poser
And you never lived in the seventies
Or you never crocheted
Or you lived the seventies with blinders on
And a mop bucket upside down over your eyes...

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natures lace doilies

silently they fall ~ her gift
 
a white crocheted shawl



Written 28th December 2020
Syllables Per Line:	5 7 5

Premier Contest Hi-Ku (4)
Sponsor Brian Strand
8th Place...

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Crescent moon was a tiny bit chilly on pink clouds tonight
He got his warm cozy crocheted afghan and turned on the light.
Sweet baby star Dory stopped by to listen to a good story.
Crescent was happy to accommodate sweet little Dory....

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sewing elf with his knitted socks and his crocheted bibs
sits among the wild flowers, counting neonate nursery cribs.
stitching up mattress covers and fluffy pillows for the young.
he has a keen sense of humor and laughs like a beetle dung....

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i built my house out of
cobwebs crocheted together
it can handle
heavy weather & i'm
stuck inside. in a victim
i confide, i give it
away & then
run & hide. that's
not me in there, i
slid out between
bone; i played fair &
you enjoy it alone....

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White crocheted lace against a pastel purple sky
Winter has gone; spring is nigh birds build nest with nature comply

Spring rains fall upon mother earth calling forth grasses
Giving all trees and plants a chance at a great new birth

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December Magic

Waltzing with the wind,
in crocheted gowns of white lace…
flurries of snowflakes
sway to sweet divine music...
that only angels can hear. 


12-24-2014


Contest:     A Quintain Christmas
Sponsor:    Andrea Dietrich
Placement: 2nd...

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Well I love my little poodlab-shitziddle
Though His paws are really large and his legs are rather small
And his body's kind-a chubby 'round the middle
His hair is like it's crocheted to his body
But he's covered by some bangs both north and south
Which make his feeding time, for me quite awkward 
"Cause, I'm not sure at what end I"ll find his mouth...

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merman had no chance to swim away
a bunch of sirens serenaded him that day
they fought over him and the little sister won
she was a dazzling mermaid who knew how to have fun

merman never tried to get away again
he held her yarn, as she crocheted with a grin
cleaned house, washed dishes, vacuumed and made her tea
he was the most perfect merman in the China Sea...

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The Seasonal Wardrobe of Trees


Trees
transform
their wardrobes

Spring
blossoms
green lace shawls

Soon
spreads lush
dark green capes

Fall
flaunts gold
burnished gowns

Then
drapes white
crocheted scarves


Sandra M. Haight

~1st Plac~
Contest: Haiku 1-2-3 or 3-2-1
Sponsor: Charles Messina
Judged: 10/09/2018
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I am always in competition against myself, it is free.
Playing word games, while I listening to the droning TV
You do not even watch! My husband says amused.
He is right. I use it like a radio, like we did in 1942.

I can get much accomplished while I listen in.
I have knitted and crocheted afghans during the din.
The white noise of the TV is therapeutic to me.
I have my ears ready, but rarely watch the TV....

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when I die I will send you a sign
this was from my grandma who was eighty-nine
I will send you a bird that looks like an afghan, okay?
I thought this was hilarious, on a warm summer Tuesday

she died within the month and a bird came to me
it was a loud ugly thing, with a ruffled beak you could see
looked like an alien bird with a crocheted neck and face
by crackee, grandma had done it, and she’d done it with grace...

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Fecund sewer ingeniously knitted 
An ornately crocheted potholder was made
 
Bragged her complete oeuvre at first 
But its worthless in everybody’s sight 

It may be futile or trifling
What can it flaunt is nothing

The Cuisiner's hands are sheathed
From  scorching cauldron was protected

No acclaim, no reward travail
From first light to nightfall with ill 

Hard work makes it smeared and  filthy
At old age, it will be banished away...

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Placed against my heart I breathe you in
wrapped in a crocheted shawl
and I remember
 
Rocked to a forgotten rhythm within my soul
snuggled safe within my arms
and I remember
 
Caressed with the touch of a loving memory 
skin as smooth as alabaster
and I remember
 
Held tight in a vice-like grip, bound together
an unbreakable bond 
and I remember 

I see in you the image of others I have loved
promises of joy relived
and memories new...

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Dainty lacy fingers of ice like crocheted filigrees
Are creeping across the cold, blue windowpane,
Like tri-mast ocean schooners on stormy seas
Dainty lacy fingers of ice like crocheted filigrees
A tiny spider is brought to its tiny fragile knees
Trying to find a bit of warmth, I’m afraid, in vain
Dainty lacy fingers of ice like crocheted filigrees
Are creeping across the cold, blue windowpane.

Written January 29, 2022...

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Her hunched mound circles around
while near dawning approaches...
and my mind wonders of her need
to spin more rows in puffs
of hours, sewing and binding
a delicate blanket made from loops.
Somehow, I know what makes
her hurry... as time wheezes, 
silken mother props her bed
upon new day's request
when egg sacs, her young, peep out 
toward a gently crocheted, wet earth.



PD's Contest:
Any Poem (you wrote) that makes you smile...

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