Meredee returned to the house shivering from the cold.
I thought you took your woolen scarf, said her Grandma Bold.
I did, she said, but her teeth were shaking, her fate sealed.
Look here grandma, said her daughter, staring out into the field.
Outside was a tiny Scottish calf, with woolen scarf around his neck you see.
I had to protect my baby Doug, said Meredee. He needed it more than me.
Categories:
woolen, animal,
Form: Rhyme
Coats buttoned and hats in place, but hands are still exposed
Fitting gloves on tiny fingers is a chore when they're opposed
Bribes are needed for some children to keep them standing still
Mittens prevent parents from yelling, "Come on kid. Just chill!"
Little digits wiggle because they don't want to be constrained,
so, in warm woolen mittens my child's fingers have remained.
There's need to keep them protected from cold weather's sting.
From the five-fingered prisons, I will shout, "Let freedom ring!"
I've heard the cry of those tiny voices after the inevitable pout
and then lost my patience while trying desperately to figure out,
how to get those fat sausages stuffed inside a five-fingered glove.
Then I found it so much easier to slip on mittens made with love.
January 12, 2023
Of What Use Are Gloves to Fingers That Only Understand Mittens
Sponsored by John Lawless
Categories:
woolen, children, winter,
Form: Rhyme
blanket like clouds rolls westward
naughty woolen socks on floor
midnight eyelids make a grab
now thief has cold feet
11/7/2020
Categories:
woolen, husband, wife, winter,
Form: Dodoitsu
they used
to say if
there's a
will there's
a way and so
i tried not
to live with
materialism
but given now
at my age i've
accumulated
dated and what
i thought were
savable things
thinking how
could i
throw
these
memo
ries away
so my attic
fills as does
my basement
one mouse filled
the other mold damp
mouse traps and
a humidifier can't
make or keep
them to last
but what is
lost when they are
found by a stranger
the memory that
surrounds them
and grounds
their electricity
or some say
an aura but
before i go
there
i just have
to say i had
these things
as part of me
and so in sound
mind and body
both creaking
and cracking
i am passing
this stuffing
on to
my son
because
i willed it
in my will
it's so much
easier to give
these things up
when i go
belly
up
Categories:
woolen, muse,
Form: I do not know?
I could see every youth moving to that market.
A place where I bought my solely blanket;
An abode full of different people who make noise.
There, men and women are standing still in poise.
A bachelor had gone there with his puppet;
Nights his third leg had been badly upright.
To buy a nice and fitting woolen blanket lard.
His cabin had been silent like a new graveyard.
Such was a place of known people to meet anytime;
For singles and divorced to seek heating covers.
For their nightly hidden full sleep not of snores.
Delight they relish, not in mass, but in silence.
For killing nightly cold, a bachelor never marries.
With true manhood, he does so to become a lord.
Manhood of those who offer their blood daughter
In a good mood, he begets male and female broods.
Such is the blanket that quilts the nightly cold.
Poem by Mugisho N Theophile
Categories:
woolen, love, marriage,
Form: ABC
A knitted quilt lays on my bed's divan
Needled by Grandma, generations ago
Its wool fiber pliant and wide enough
To keep the family cuddled in bonfire eves
Sheltering me now, her heirloom's gift.
C Contest
Categories:
woolen, giving, grandmother,
Form: Choka
Woolen Shawls
Mothers are like woven shawls
knitted from the finest wool.
Stitch by stitch, their shapes are formed
for warmth, comfort and protection...
forever, as enduring wraps of love.
Sandra M. Haight
~Honorable Mention~
Contest: Wool
Sponsor: CT
Judged: 01/20/2016
Categories:
woolen, love, metaphor, mother,
Form: Free verse