Short Stitch In Time Poems

A stitch in time saves nine, 
Everything will be fine....

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Pitch
to have perfect pitch
is as the saying goes a
stitch in time saves nine...

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nine torn kimonos
man sits staring out window---
bare arsed slacker

*a stitch in time saves 9...

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"a stitch in time"
 is but a second gone
 never to return
 sewn in the mind, warped by time
 threads return to yesterday...

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A stitch in time saves nine
But a stitch in your side ain't fine
Hurts like hell
Bad words you expell
Bend over in pain while guzzling wine


© Jack Ellison 2015...

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God helps those who help themselves
Hidden here a kernel of truth: "no free lunch!"
But if I seek a shelter in real or fancied homelessness
"A stitch in time saves nine," - not my bikini (thanx a bunch)...

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A STITCH IN TIME

A stitch in time saves nine
It also works in just four lines
So ends the  length of my little rhyme
I think four lines will work just fine

7 June 2018
For the contest sponsored by Silent One...

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sale a baked cookie.children,nookie nookie is good for you.boo,im a witch,and a 
stitch in time saves fine,ask me a question.bet i keep you guessing.call wesson 
oil,see if the pot boils or steams.hes being mean.thats the thing.ring,its the F.B.I....

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Some people are weird, silly and fat.
You can’t eat jokes,
And we want tears of laughter not sadness.
Days gone by I was always laughing.
Slapstick and custard pies.
A stitch in time saves nine when laughing out loud,
and boys will be boys for crying out loud....

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So and Sew

I sew
it’s so

So Fine

nimble
thimble

Lost Pattern

quilted
wilted

Chain Stitch

lost link
pants sink

Running Stitch

pants torn
forlorn

Stitch in Time

mended
splendid

Long Stitch

I sew
so slow

Prickle

needle
bleedle...

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A broken sign; your
thoughts divine.
A stitch in time; a line
that rhymes.
Got you shaking; looking for
the making.
Died alone;
I can tell you anything you want to know.
A silent scream; an
etch supreme
into the mind; your
daily grind.
Moment of Zen; you're
broken in.
Died alone;
I can tell you anything you want to know....

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Your job shall be on the line
And, sure, Agatha’s and mine,
If on our salad our customers dine
And taste our wine
But fail to feel fine
This betraying with faces frozen
And a wish another hotel had chosen
The looks of one served oceanic brine
Eyes with contemplated murder shine …

So, over that we won’t pine
You do for a stitch in time that saves nine....

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Look what you have done to my shoelaces, Fluffy!
Now that's hardly a  nice thing to do.
There are things in this world, from a twig to a bone,
that are more admirably suited to chew.

I don't wish to be hypercritical, Fluffy.
You might easily have done something worse,
but there are things in this world, which,  not done up,
lead one all too soon to a hearse....

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B punctual never b late
Don't b scared of time it's ur best mate
Put ur watch in ur heart
Love it like ur favourite pie tart
Learn to save time
A stitch on time always saves nine
In the same way saving time
May save u a dime
Always keep track of ur time and 
And it will always give u a helping hand
Don't hurry b well orgamised and steady
Always b ready
Because time will never fail to surprise u...

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Why a 'needle' in a haystack
  What's it doing there
And 'a stitch in time 'saves nine' ~
  If nine more stitches, who cares

And who ever cries over 'spilled milk'
  I'm certainly not of that ilk
If 'a penny' saved were a MILLION earned
  Then perhaps I'd dress in silk

All I'm saying here, my friends
  Is it might be wise to analyze
Why we say, 'Want fries with that'
  ~ Why risk eating your hat...

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If you wait, it may be too late……………………...........A
Simple thought to make that…...………………........STITCH
An action which, wisdom proves not to hesitate...IN
Dealing with a problem large or small…………........TIME
Is of the essence needed to capture, as it.…….....SAVES
Future toil and trouble eight times out of..…….....NINE



For Dane Ann Smith-Johnsen's "End Line Word" contest.
I hope I did it correctly....

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sitting at the table
making origami birds
with empty foster labels
untold are his words

she floats onto the dance floor
like the awakening of a dream
a single stitch in time
a moment in a need

she turns her smile upon him
a glimmer in the moon
holds her hand out to him
a hush falls on the room

he folds the last seam on the wing
the edge is good and tight
they step onto the balcony
sending origami birds to flight...

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Here’s idiomatic lines for nine.

Why does a stitch in time just save nine?

Why’s possession nine points of the law?

Indeed, why did the cat have nine tails?

Perhaps it’s because it had nine lives?

Why would someone go the whole nine yards?

Should cats and dogs be cats and canines?

Is this poem a nine days’ wonder?

If not, then I will be on cloud nine!



written 13 May 2021
checked with Poetry Soup syllable counter...

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I dropped a stitch,
A stitch in time,
And so her fabric unravelled
Little by little.

Slowly, with ironic deliberation,
At the turtleneck sleeve first,
Then up the arm, across the chest,
Along the back and down the other arm.

Like the owner her garment vanished.
A heap of shapeless yarn remained,
Resembling nothing so much 
As poorly visualised memory.

Of worlds that could have been,
And possibilities that once were
And the chaos that now 
Pervades her dreamless wake....

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”... a stitch in time saves nine…”
do you think we’d be without mind?
a measure of seven was taken in the wind…
then a cat came out to say meow my friend.
eternity flows in endless directions
seven to nine needs the hearts intention
love is sublime and it goes without mention
life is a creation of the merging oceans
and living is being, in this serge of motion

”... the sum of nine was carried four…
1300 days through a mile of corridor “
She came to the game with nothing more....

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A stitch in time saves nine
Doctors and nurses all around him
Maintaining his pulse above the flat line
The vodka got his tongue loose
Dissing the bouncer who was way bigger
Too bad he had a short fuse
And beat the drunk up like John Cena





 ( this is based on a true story, i had a friend who felt like he owned the club whenever he was high and one day he run his mouth to a bouncer who had a temper and he knocked his lights out, if you are having fun don't cross other people's boundaries)...

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