Short Seamstress Poems

Dream weaver galore

       Lucky to have a steamstress

             Seamstress of visions...

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Certain yarns with needles knit
Are not strong and likely will split
So please keep in mind
The seamstress is kind
And insists on try-ons for fit...

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Carefree childhood
School days
Wedding Day
Beautiful girls
Creative seamstress
Met soul mate
Daily Joy
Togetherness
Forever after
Cancer
Detour......

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Wardrobe malfunction…circus seamstress needs sacking ~ Quick … send in the clowns!

Bare breasts are on show ~ cheeks match her red hair ~snow white steed to the rescue!...

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The old sewing machine
Stiches noisily
The separated will be joined
The torn will be patched
But
Not the hearts that are apart
But 
Not the luck and glory that are lapsed...

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Forty years shopworn yet still taut, 
the past a seamstress rare 

Her words reknitted, stitched and purled
—to dress a future bare 

    (Villanova Pennsylvania: January, 2020)...

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A paper lantern of a girl;
Dim halo hazy, stitched thin by needlework.
A precision seamstress of darker dreams--
Freedom is a luxury, not
A privilege.




"Lanterns"
Jenna-Nichole Conrad
Wordsmith...

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Drowning anguish,
Black bleached seamstress,
In eyes share intimacy,
In life comes wonder,
An ire forelivid,
A tomorrow for two,
Stars wretched in darkness,
Breathing for the hand,
Of the dark ocean hue....

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Comprised of nightmares or reveries.
Weaving webs like a seamstress seams.
Tales of our heroes and worst enemies.
Lessons from our subconscious streams





From Listen Carefully
9/24/2020
Rithimus Divisa 6...

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i am a singer
i am a citizen
i am a barber

i am a painter
i am a Samaritan
i am a matchmaker

i am a wise person
i am a daydreamer
i am a seamstress

i am a stargazer
i am a nurse
i am a write

i am a mother
i am a voter
i am me...

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She was a jolly seamstress Miss Gritches

     Who was a whiz at patchin' men's britches

          And alterin' ladies skirts

                And sewin' buttons on shirts

                     'Twas said she kept her patrons in 'stitches'...

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I whispered goodbye with my forehead pressed against the pane.


My breath fogged my words as I watched you walk from my thoughts.


The loneliness is longer this time. 


My side seems so bare now that the threads are undone. 


I should find my sewing box. 

...

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oh my lover...
		 more's the pity
	that i live in sin city.

	looking up an address
	is asking for a slap.

	asking for a seamstress
	is to walk into a trap.

	take me to my house please!
	you'll only lose my way

	my only fear and fantasy:
	to live here every day......

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My mother was a perfectionist.
A seamstress who made all of our clothes
She would look at a dress in a window
Run home and make it but prettier.

I did not have a store-bought dress until I married.
It cost $19.99 and I was askance!
How dare they ask that much!
My husband had to send me back to buy it....

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You try to mask your given voice
in what’s perverse and then profane

But truth speaks only for itself,
your costume tattered—seamstress blamed

This great parade, a grand charade,
your song a flattened chord

Its final line to seal your fate
—perdition now assured

(Villanova Pennsylvania: March, 2017)...

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I love you

words spoken

in English Spanish Arabic Tagalog and Swahili

words spoken

by waitress

and by the tycoon

by the wife

and by the mistress

by the executive

and by the seamstress

words you hear

whispered

among those who kill

and among those who are killed

hatreds other face

   destiny

of human race....

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You try to mask your given voice
  in what’s perverse and then profane

But truth speaks only for itself,
 your costume tattered—seamstress blamed

This great parade, a grand charade,
  your song a flattened chord 

Its final line to seal your fate,
 —perdition now assured

(Villanova Pennsylvania: March, 2017)...

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The Incredible Hulk had a ripped clothes dilemma
Should he employ a seamstress or carry a portable hemmer
His trousers ripped at the rear
Red cheeks all round made it clear
He should really have avoided the gamma

Put Your Best (One) Limerick Forward (Be Like Rico Leffanta) Poetry Contest
23rd February 2023
Sponsored by: Andrea Dietrich...

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ohhh
rolled my sleep
in
the
dark
sold my weep
to
the
harp
who eyes are we anyway
time for time just my delay
moisture from her lips persuaded
it was just my heart that she jaded
she sings poetry to desert sands
in
the
rain
my ilusions
just a stain
rolled my dreams
through your pain
sewed all seams
seamstress
games
rolled
my
sleep
?...

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   Living simply
     rejoicing
   in their callings

   He, a shoemaker
     finest quality
   long-lasting leather

   She, a seamstress
     understated grace
   in bridal gowns and accessories

   home - Lower East Side
     1930's NYC tenement-style
   hearts - in Jerusalem

   Their bags packed
     ready to go
   Hark, Elijah heralds the dawn

...

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Wherever I find a hole
I attempt to fill it with poetry: 

the pocket, the heart, poetry
my go-to
mending part~ 

no seamstress should do
without a lyric or two 

Every planter
sowing a field should pass time composing 
while preparing his yield – poetry, always
somewhat satisfying in the place

till a lick of the lips

a burp, a blush
your delightfully 
saucy face!...

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Where liveth preen for empathy 
Drew ragged, 
Poor sawbones perscribed
"where in pain warrants lithe deformities"
Swimming,
Loathed from the east
Collared, 
Hung dry,
Pruned by the sweat of a racing night

When in dawn's bleached seamstress 
Sought a grim vow
Erelong in catapult
Where'n torrents clothed spare
Credences in cold eyes of maggots
A cruel indifference,
In polar tear.
...

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She might be a hoarder we guessed that day.
When she came gliding by what else could we say?
Attached to her somewhere was a plethora of stuff.
Books, gifts, purses, pouches, satchels all rough.

Her elaborate vest had been constructed from ties.
There must be a seamstress in her life said McDyes.
I bet her house is horrible, said his cousin, Ms. Farr.
I doubt it I told her, she lives in her car....

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My mother filled so many roles,
In helping seven meet their goals.
She reared us by her fine-tuned tools
Of simple but unbending rules.
She was teacher, preacher, censor,
Most of all a love dispenser,
A mentor, doctor, nurse and cook,
Skills not yet found in any book,
Seamstress, laundress and home-maker,
Maid and cake and cookie baker,
All the time filling Daddy's life
With happiness as his loved wife....

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lean back bend bones joints
snapped & smoked- i can
see the words i spoke in 
vibr
ating letters gyrating plaid
sweaters tangled by the neck,
i wasn't looking fast, so quick
-wreck, bleeding bricks- joked
the nervous tick, afraid of the 
bed he made. don't
miss the cause, burning bras,
passing laws- don't
fight the mender, seamstress of
sight, dirty defender- inhale,
hold, don't
let it go- 
so easy....

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