Stitches Poems - Poems about Stitches

THIS QUILT This quilt a kaleidoscope of corduroy colours a struggle to even out lucid lovers cotton wool lies in bumpity flats I unravel thread just like that cat ! Stitches are too loose or tight corners say alright,...Read the rest...

The winter storm in me blows me away, from the beautiful spring that awaits, The pensive rain showers on me, than the warmth of the Sun, Darkness in my life overshadows the light Those pensive scars, in my pulsating heart, never...Read the rest...

Serging through life, I whipstitch, weft, and welt, But always, my thoughts are pick-threading. As stippled patches of emotion rise and fall in me, See me, feel me, touch me, heal me Just too many scars. The mindless mind stresses...Read the rest...

Stitches A wound, deep and wide. Gaping, Ragged, Bleeding... Cover with the cloth of False Smiles. Cover with the cobweb gauze of Empty Sympathy. Clamp it shut with fingers of Chemical Laughter. Hold it together with shaky hands of Liquid pain relief. ...Read the rest...

Stitches A wound, deep and wide Gaping, Ragged, Bleeding Cover with the cloth of False Smiles Cover with the cobweb gauze of Empty Sympathy Clamp it shut with fingers of Chemical Laughter Hold it together with shaky hands of Liquid pain relief ...Read the rest...

I’ll never forget the beauty of a stare unabashed and unwelcome in its own right The public spaces in which my mind unravels from cords pulled tight against hollow lobes The centipede that stitches them both together in the fading light with tiny...Read the rest...

If you can’t stand the criticism put down your pen Instead take up knitting but caution the thread Too thick and your stifled too thin and your bare As needles purl over —what hides in despair (Dreamsleep: October, 2022)...Read the rest...

Love Stitches an Ocean We met once along the lines of short sentences in the aether we exchanged conversations in dreams we thought we were poets but we were just empty chimes echoing the us before us, we existed free verse in the...Read the rest...

Where can home be found, when mother can’t pick up the phone? I follow her in patchwork, until I see her brilliance, once again, in heaven. happiness wrap me in a queen-sized quilt, ...Read the rest...

Rage shatters the heart One are now two Separates warmth Bloods cold blue Battered long before This but he knew Then why did I adore He with whom I grew Greatly did I give For granted it was took Admission hid behind In his charismatic...Read the rest...

Alive within my soul, toxic as can be His words remove the stitches, that kept my heart a beat True love was once the claim, if ever that were true Sewing broken pieces was all he had to...Read the rest...

She was a jolly seamstress Miss Gritches Who was a whiz at patchin' men's britches And alterin' ladies skirts ...Read the rest...

The tongue, the tooth or today, Or then, the gaze with memories and sweat, Left of the misery, the haze, or the blurred set, The thoughts tied to the codes for the day, The tongue, the tooth or the...Read the rest...

my shoe shot into the air like fireworks — polished black my sailor-sock in shock Japanese sailors in stitches 3/6/2020...Read the rest...

Twas the night before Christmas and I was a gasp at the rumors that filled me with an odious fright. For Santa Claus was now tired of working for free ...Read the rest...