Tapestry
Fuzzy crimson splotches
Warped blossoms
Viral entanglements
Crude pills on the weft
Tactile levity severed
Too many hanging threads
Dangling dust magnets
I need a good shake
Laid on the line
Chill breeze
Tightening my weave
Beaten with purpose
Until my surface is flush
Mish is today’s host for dVerse. Mish says:
Pen a poem of exactly 44 words, not including the title using the word “flush” in some form.
Oh, I like this personification very much!
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De, thank you!
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I like the description of the threads as “Dangling dust magnets”.
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🙂 Thank you, Frank.
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Many years ago I used to cross-stitch and make tapestry. I love your personified tapestry to bits, Lisa, especially the ‘Warped blossoms’ and ‘Viral entanglements’, and the ‘Chill breeze / Tightening my weave’!
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Kim thank you very much.
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You’re more than welcome!
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I do love a tapestry so alive, but I think with dust like this it would still deserve a good beating
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🙂 Yep.
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Oh those pesky dust magnets! This was adorable Lisa 🙂💕
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🙂 Glad you enjoyed it, Christine!
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🙂
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I enjoyed the voice of the tapestry and the weaving of tight descriptions. 🙂
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Mish, thank you, glad you enjoyed it 🙂
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Like everyone, you had me at /I need a good shake/. Kudos for personifying something inanimate.
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Thank you, Glenn 🙂
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Nice metaphor.
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Thanks, Ken!
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Ha! I like it.
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🙂
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💖
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Great ekphrastic poem, I loved how you used the language of weaving to “tie” it all together. (Sorry- couldn’t help it) This poem made me want to read it again – just for the sheer pleasure that your word choice bestowed. Did you know where it was going when you started? I really liked/appreciated the twist between the first and second stanza – very haiku-like feel to this.
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Thanks, Christine, glad you enjoyed reading it No, it didn’t start out that way. The blotches were bad spots along my synapses with everything going on. Glad you liked the twist between the stanzas also.
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Ah yes, the purpose there is crucial to any results
Happy Monday
Much😷love
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Happy Monday and thank you for reading, Gillena ❤
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You conjured a lost memory! Mother used to put the carpets on the line in a fresh spring breeze and beat the daylights out of them with a carpet-beater made for that purpose, discouraging the dust of winter. Hadn’t thought about that for YEARS! Thanks.
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My mam did the same 😍
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So happy to have helped bring the memory back. We had those rug beaters also 🙂
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It seems like everything reminds me of a song these days…this brings to mind the beginning of Carole King’s “Tapestry”. Allthings ccx woven are collectors. (K)
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Glad my poem reminded you of Carole King. I love that jacket cover of Tapestry. One of a kind.
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Lovely images in this. tapestries are beautiful aren’t they? Xxx
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Yes they are even when worn and threadbare.
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Why does this post make me think about Carole King?
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Her album by that name.
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Hurray to tapestries … of all kinds …
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That is the only way to get the dust out of the rug. I like your take on the rug be in flush in the sun!
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very clever analogy! Most of us could do with a good brush down and shake off …
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Thank you, yes. My threads sure are gathering dust.
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lol I can spare you a few squares to wipe it off 😎
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🙂
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I had the same thoughts with Kate. Love the analogy in this piece. 🙂
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Thank you, Maria, glad you like it.
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Fantastic, Li! Love the personification and your use of “flush”!
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Some things must be beaten to be beautiful… thankfully only THINGS!
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ooooh! a clever personification. and i love how the words roll out of my mouth. quite delicious!
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🙂 Glad you enjoyed!
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The last three lines are awesome.
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So glad you enjoyed them. I liked writing them.
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