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When the days stretch into evenings When the evenings slip into nights When the minutes pull together Silken threads greet the sunlight When the days span into months When the months spin into years With the silken moments carted Iridescent strands will then appear. When the threads run through the loom When the tapestry unfolds What might have been weak and faded Becomes more beautiful and bold. We are the weavers and the spinners So each tapestry is our own We ourselves must choose the colours Before the edges can be sewn.

Copyright © | Year Posted 2012




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Date: 6/2/2017 12:33:00 PM
Hello Mikki, A very well-conceived couplet here. The metaphor you've built out here is quite wondrous and speaks volumes to the individual nature and quality of that each of us weaves and colorizes throughout our respective lives. This one's a very unique write indeed. A FAVE IN MY BOOK!! Cheers and Best, Gary
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Michelle Mac Donald
Date: 6/2/2017 2:23:00 PM
Thank you Gary! :) I'm sure yourself and Ingrid are disappointed with my behavior lately, I'm so very sorry.:( This I'd written for a friend, living through one of those chrysalis stages. Now I should start to weave a new tapestry of my own. Keep well, thank you for your wonderful support. Best wishes, Mikki
Date: 7/27/2016 10:45:00 PM
You cast me in a daydream loop. You spin silky smooth. ;-)
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Michelle Mac Donald
Date: 7/29/2016 12:54:00 PM
Are you really Christopher Reeves, a.k.a Kent Clark, moonlighting as Superman? I can spin a yarn, but cannot sew a cape, nor stop a run in one's leotards.:(
Date: 7/25/2016 12:22:00 PM
Hi, Mikki. Caught this one earlier. How ya doing? Computer fixed? Congrats. Lote, daver
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Michelle Mac Donald
Date: 8/2/2016 7:48:00 AM
Computer is not fixed. A crossroads for me, I hadn't had it for an entire year yet the computer repair man thinks I should buy another. :( Apart from being a good machine, there is major sentimental value attached to this one.
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Michelle Mac Donald
Date: 7/26/2016 10:21:00 AM
Hi Daver! I'm doing fine. Sunday I managed to downsize the painting's packaging. It morphed from pretty to functional. Monday I wrote a letter to send with it. Though the parcel is gone, the letter is still here. Figures, huh? :( I'll add more to the letter, then send it off.:)
Date: 11/4/2012 2:05:00 PM
This silk tapestry metaphor is very sensuous and vivd, and the symbollic - intellectual culmination is very smart - I hope heaven has a space big enough for my tapestry to hang on - J.A.B. %
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Date: 8/31/2012 10:05:00 AM
Iridescent - what a great word, especially in this piece. The stinger is priceless. Old folk and those with life experience will enjoy this mucho. I didn't know you are avatar. Love, daver
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