As a New Year approaches, and man continues to gain more and more intelligence, explorations will continue, as we create a "butterfly effect." With the wave of our quilts, patched by the duty, courage, faith, change and continuity of it's makers, our physical side, our sense of place, will conform with our spiritual side. There we tend to turn toward our stories and paintings, poems and lyrics, murals and novels...our creative notions, so to speak, to continue to weave our world for all tomorrows!
Happy 2007! Our possibilities are vast!
Quilted in down White light tends to blink A woman sews threads to man’s, star-studded links
Souls from the sun, mate under a moon Caress your brethren’s Love is the spool!
Watch, comets stream notions as they cotton on, in the looms Black dresses a sky, when His bride meets her Groom
Gathering the waters, cupping your hand Carefully watching, the pearls, how they land...
Love evenly disperses Then hate too, astute In realizing, then modifying, we’re adapting our quilt
See, moments of inception, stitched from a poke, Emotivity is impacted, from one fleeting yoke
Naturally, in beauty, knowing one’s world Perceiving, we nourish, brings to bear, in this globe
Weaver’s in matter, preserving the frame With tools that are mine, Speculations exchange
Look, Give and take with our Maker, creates patch-less covers To live life all alone, creates cold in the druthers
Finishing stitches, wherein purpose becomes... Satisfying intentions, Leads us away from our One
So alter your self Give meaning, import Perspective might-have-been’s, can never come forth
The White Hole is seen, new patterns will follow Brave, unworn worlds, seam dreams of tomorrow
Divining art, mending physical orbits In musings I write, warmly covers my Spirit
Duty and courage, Faith and all change, continuity in this space, Our Quilting’s, all prearranged
What a creative yarn you birthed here! Kimmy~
Love your Beauty in it all!
Happy Life to you and yours!
~Keep In Touch my friend~
AS a NEW Year begins!
WArm HuGs,WArrior Sheeeoxxo
What a brilliant metaphor, Kimmy -- I applaud you on this poem. It's beautiful and so well done.
Love,
CJ
Reviewed by Tamara Perlin (Reader)
Reviewed on January 1, 2007
How grand is this, your quilt! How fine is this, your fabric! And your weaving words have me stitching my own puzzled comfort, er life's plan, what envelopes ME? Hmmm... I wonder what, His plan?
Love this one, Tamara
Reviewed by Flying Fox Ted L Glines (Reader)
Reviewed on December 31, 2006
Nice wordcrafting, Kimmy! Such a wide range of images all woven together into one mosaic which is us. Very cool!
Thought provoking analogy. Needs a few readings to absorve the pattern of thought emerging.
Arthur Miller through the world weary voice of Willy Loman, described the momentum of life as a 'peeling away of an orange skin'. With skin you just throw it away, leaving us nothing to scrutinise and learn leassons from. With your quilt analogy, we see the pattern of life taking place in both its perfect and imperfections.
Happy New Quilt for 2007
Dai
Reviewed by J M (Reader)
Reviewed on December 31, 2006
Kimmy,
Life for me is like a quilt , with pieces of different texture, phases, stichings they all form the final shape in the end. This was a wonderful way of looking at life through your poem too.
Very nice to describe night as a sky wearing a black gown, and with "A quilt in Notions" another way to describe the weaving work of time.
Great writing, as always.
Reviewed by xxxxxxx cccccc (Reader)
Reviewed on December 31, 2006
What a great idea.
Reviewed by Victor Buhagiar (Reader)
Reviewed on December 30, 2006
Great poem, I love the idea of life looking like a quilt. Great imagery. Victor
It is as one sees the ending of a time and the entrance into the moments of the beginning, even thoughts are quilted together and as one places thoughts together we find ourselves, love and hate, faith and future, one must look past the repetition of reality at times and see into the inner of our future which is as destiny itself...prearranged...as you say within your thoughts...
nicely quilted poetry...
Many Blessings for You and Your family within this coming New Year!!!
Wishing you a very prosperous New Year 2007. Let's stay in touch. Blessed Be.
A quote from my novel The Buckskin Skirt Oar Traveler:
"Weaving is a magnificent and functional obsession that circles the globe. Peruvian women gather in the marketplace to sell their llama-wool rugs. A Tibetan refugee woman weaver spins her wool on a wheel made of bicycle parts. A South American woman weaves a God's Eye by crossing two sticks and weaving the yarn from top to bottom and across the arm of the cross to take to the altar for the purpose of prayer. The Amazonian woman weaves palm fronds to construct her living quarters. A gay Ojibwa woman weaves snowshoes, her netting made from strips of partially tanned moose hide laced through awl-punched holes in the birch frame."
A quote from my novel Stone Creek Woman
"Stone Creek Woman plants a clock garden in the spring. She plants 12 varieties of flowers in a pie shape to open from different hours to coincide in the day from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. Autumn Shadow lashes together a quilting frame from tobacco twine and cotton rope and hoists it up to the one-room school ceiling. When the day's lessons are done, she pulls it down to allow the young school girls time to sew a story quilt from Stone Creek Woman's philosophies. The clock garden is sewn into the quilt with a big bright yellow sun in the middle. They use upgraded thread so the story quilt will hold together for many generations."
loved this and the title is great...A Quilt in Notions, my mom owned a fabric shop when I was growing up, God I sound old, the youth of today have never seen a fabric shop, instead they have become accustomed to buying that at WalMart or Kmart. Anyway, my mom's advertisement was Mossie's Fabrics and Notions...took me way back with this one...enjoyed the trip, great write my friend. Life is much like a quilt and the process of piecing it together.
Blessings and Happy New year!
Joyce Bowling
Early Works is an exhaustive compilation of the first decade of the poems and stories of Z.B.McClure. Included are family photos, rare personal photos, photos of 1st draft manuscripts of many of his early poems. Also some biography and memoir materia
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Enjoyed the interweaving of verbage presented
Cheers to you~Gwendolyn
Love your Beauty in it all!
Happy Life to you and yours!
~Keep In Touch my friend~
AS a NEW Year begins!
WArm HuGs,WArrior Sheeeoxxo
Love,
CJ
Love this one, Tamara
Best New Year to you!
Ted
Regis
Thanks for sharing!!
Love Tinka
You have created such beauties with this wonderful patchwork. Life is a constant creation and you have done well with this.
Happy New Year to your and your family!!!!!
Your Poet Friend,
Sandie May Angel :o)
Arthur Miller through the world weary voice of Willy Loman, described the momentum of life as a 'peeling away of an orange skin'. With skin you just throw it away, leaving us nothing to scrutinise and learn leassons from. With your quilt analogy, we see the pattern of life taking place in both its perfect and imperfections.
Happy New Quilt for 2007
Dai
Life for me is like a quilt , with pieces of different texture, phases, stichings they all form the final shape in the end. This was a wonderful way of looking at life through your poem too.
Blessings Happy New Year,
Love,
Joselyn
Great writing, as always.
Rusty
nicely quilted poetry...
Many Blessings for You and Your family within this coming New Year!!!
love and peace, Art Sun...
enjoyed reading
Peace be with you
Happy New Year
William
Love & Peace
Fee
A good comparison, Kimmy. Guess life is much like fitting quilt pieces together.
Here's my slant on it. We sew the pieces together. The quilt gets old and frayed and eventually exists no more. This isn't as good as yours.
Happy New Year.
From: Sage
Wishing you a very prosperous New Year 2007. Let's stay in touch. Blessed Be.
A quote from my novel The Buckskin Skirt Oar Traveler:
"Weaving is a magnificent and functional obsession that circles the globe. Peruvian women gather in the marketplace to sell their llama-wool rugs. A Tibetan refugee woman weaver spins her wool on a wheel made of bicycle parts. A South American woman weaves a God's Eye by crossing two sticks and weaving the yarn from top to bottom and across the arm of the cross to take to the altar for the purpose of prayer. The Amazonian woman weaves palm fronds to construct her living quarters. A gay Ojibwa woman weaves snowshoes, her netting made from strips of partially tanned moose hide laced through awl-punched holes in the birch frame."
A quote from my novel Stone Creek Woman
"Stone Creek Woman plants a clock garden in the spring. She plants 12 varieties of flowers in a pie shape to open from different hours to coincide in the day from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. Autumn Shadow lashes together a quilting frame from tobacco twine and cotton rope and hoists it up to the one-room school ceiling. When the day's lessons are done, she pulls it down to allow the young school girls time to sew a story quilt from Stone Creek Woman's philosophies. The clock garden is sewn into the quilt with a big bright yellow sun in the middle. They use upgraded thread so the story quilt will hold together for many generations."
Sage
Blessings and Happy New year!
Joyce Bowling
God Bless,
Lew