Poetry Friday: Liberation

 

Knots
Image by Vicki Becker from Pixabay 














Joined.
     Entwined.
               Twisted. 
       Snarled.
Tangled.

patience,
            slow breaths,
     steady hands,       
                      clear mind,
close look,
       gentle moves.

    disentangled: 
FREE.

© Cathy L. Mere, 2021





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Comments

  1. I like how you used capitals and lower case to give feelings of tension and release! (Is this a poem about yarn, or retirement?)

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  2. This poem makes me smile - and encourages me to look to my embroidery floss!

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  3. Freedom comes in many places. It's lovely to read your poem celebrating it.

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  4. Liking the stitchery theme this Poetry Friday--this fits!

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  5. In my first year of teaching, we stitched boarders around our Mother's Day cards. (24 Yr3 kids and me.) At one point I'd exclaimed, 'Gah! I don't want to see one more knot!'. There was a queue up of kids waiting for my assistance, and eventually I got to a blond curly-top, with big blue eye who asked, with some trepidation, 'Miss... Is this a knot?' I turned his card over and yelped. Truly. It was a HUGE knot! It was my breaking point. (Which I needed. Because we all laughed so much that afternoon - including my blue-eyed blondie.) It is one of my treasured teaching memories. And this poem just took me back.💙

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