Summer Challenges
...The sun rays from above come into play,
Causing men and beasts alike look thirsty;
They care to stay well-watered every day,
And to protect even each plant and tree.
People opt for light-colore...
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Categories:
textile, summer,
Form: Sonnet
smoke
...The Wardrobe
I opened the wardrobe door
There they hang, suits and trousers
worn so long, looking pale
copies of my figure
This can't go on, in a fit of self-anger
I gave my old clothes to...
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Categories:
textile, absence, anger, break up,
Form: ABC
The Mountain in the Sea
...I have been waiting patiently for thee
to take me across the mountain in the sea
the mountain is getting high
it almost reaches the pinnacle in the sky
you must get here before the vision dies
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Categories:
textile, america, best friend, business,
Form: Free verse
Economies for Cadavers
...Can the textile, woven soft,
Wrapped round cushions, made for traded monies,
Hold through wear and treads of bones, spent by those to be beneath me?
What is made for you, me and we--
Rather tha...
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Categories:
textile, abuse, america, business, change,
Form: Rhyme
orange ginger twirl
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atop
a garden wall
striped marmalade throw
feline
lazy time
under sunshine
interlaced visions
a weaving
paws dangle in indolent ease
reach
underlay deep
whiskers sense sparro...
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Categories:
textile, poetry,
Form: Free verse
MILL TOWN
...In town of Holy Face, now Halez Fax
Are rows of back-to-backs in terraces
Between the mills that spill their thick black smoke.
Industry now dominates hill and dale.
Manufacture is mast...
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Categories:
textile, change, environment, pollution,
Form: Blank verse
Azteca
...Azteca
As a young girl growing up in Los Angeles City
My mother took me everywhere with her
Our favorite Mexican restaurant had great hospitality
Casa De Nina, I enjoyed the music and she, ...
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Categories:
textile, art, character,
Form: Rhyme
Twas the Night Before Christmas
...Twas the night before Christmas I went shopping suits,
As shoes looked rat-eaten, needed also warm boots;
Sales girls, in malls displayed suits in variety,
Blown up cost and lean purse grew my anx...
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Categories:
textile, christmas,
Form: Rhyme
Textile Arts; Fashion Design
...Textile Arts/Fashion Design
I took pattern making autumns ago
I measured and cut a bodice to sew
A vintage cocktail dress trimmed with mojo
Louie Fifteen Courts would never forgo ...
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Categories:
textile, fashion,
Form: Monorhyme
Healing
...All of our feelings
Close your eyes
Hear each note rise
Father, Mother and children
Your song notes were given
Heaven reminds
Clear your minds
Happy thoughts
Helps a lot
See how you are bles...
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Categories:
textile, angel, blessing, character, courage,
Form: Rhyme
Don'T Want To Be a Princess
...Let me tell you a story....
of a little girl who didn't want to be a Princess!!!!
it happened a long time ago, in the life of an adorable girl of seven,
who lived in the busiest humming city, en...
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Categories:
textile, children, life, princess,
Form: Narrative
Garments
...Garments
Opened the wardroom’s door, suits and jackets worn
so long looked like sad copies of me.
Gave all my clothes to the salvation army, which gave
them to people not unlike me.
Too much t...
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Categories:
textile, best friend, butterfly, funny
Form: Burlesque
Universe Is Great
...Just because I wear black glasses
Does it mean the universe is black?
Just because I find thorns and bushes
Does it mean all face the same too?
Just because I see one side of the globe
Does it ...
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Categories:
textile, life, mystery, universe,
Form: Free verse
Voodooed By You
...You stab at my manufactured beatless heart,
and tear off my tattered burlap textile.
Puncturing the weakened breath from my tight lungs.
To you, I’m just a naked doll’s unsexed part,
while enduri...
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Categories:
textile, abuse, dark, devotion, gothic,
Form: Rhyme
The Nests of Weaver Birds
...Nests of weaver birds
hanging down from the palmyra palm
An example for community living ?
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Categories:
textile, bird, nature,
Form: Free verse
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