On sewing buttons

Gold cherry
Poem of the week

By Parson Thru

Sat, 07 Apr 2018
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28 comments
 

Don’t rush it

Take your time
Putting it down
And picking it up
As many times as you like

Follow the same thread
Over and over
If that’s what you want
It’s up to you

Don’t look for meaning

If it’s there
It’ll come and find you

Poetry reading’s the same

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Comments

Submitted by Insertponceyfre... on

I love this one Parson!

 

Submitted by Parson Thru on

Thanks insert. Sitting in a window sewing a button onto a pair of work trousers with "Not with a bang but a whimper" in my head and thoughts of donated Plath in York.

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Submitted by london_calling79 on

Caught me right out with that ending! ¡Que verguenza!

 

Submitted by Parson Thru on

Sent me off to Spanishdict, london_calling97.

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Submitted by hudsonmoon on

'If it's there

It'll come and find you'

I Love that, Kevin.  It's the way I feel about writing. Cheers.

Rich

 

Submitted by Parson Thru on

Hi Rich.

I probably appropriated it from somewhere. Who knows? Feels apt though.

Hope you and Darcey are doing well across all that water. Finished OTR again for the umpteenth time the other night. Hope I can head back and watch the sun set across that groaning continent sometime.

Kev

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Submitted by Parson Thru on

:))

Pricked my finger there!

Thanks!

Good luck, Chris. X

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Submitted by Philip Sidney on

Meditation during an ordinary act, lovely!

Submitted by Parson Thru on

Thanks Philip Sydney.

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Submitted by Alice Hamilton on

I love this poem too. ‘Don’t rush it’ - I must keep those words in my head when reading and writing poetry. I have no problem with sewing buttons!

 

Submitted by Parson Thru on

:)

Tangled up in blue cotton at the mo.

Cheers Alice. x

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Submitted by Di_Hard on

I love this, it's so gentle :0) I'm not technical, so always feel very pleased that I've managed to fix something, when I sew on a button. Equally, I worry that I don't understand writing often. Your idea of joining the two together is lovely. I guess when you sew, like when you read, some thoughts as some material, are joined into something new, bigger?

 

Submitted by Parson Thru on

Thanks Di_Hard. Writers. Critics. Readers. All you can do is get on with the job and see what comes. You should have seen how many times I had to rethread the needle. I turned up for my Eng Lit exam on the wrong day, about 40 years ago. I've been feeling liberated ever since.

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Submitted by Di_Hard on

:0)

 

Submitted by Parson Thru on

Let those synapses snap away. You can't beat active imagination in the end. Sewing can be a bit tedious without it. ;)

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Submitted by Pat G on

Perfect. 'cept sewing"s easier.

Submitted by Parson Thru on

:) For some.

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Submitted by Pat G on

I failed to say something significant and ended up submitting an empty permalink - which is pretty much the opposite of what you've done with this gem.

Submitted by Di_Hard on

hm, not if you're short sighted like me :0) It's like a miniature metaphor for the miracle of life, the twentieth attempt the thread goes through and you're off. Before that it gets fuzzier and cut off and bent and huffed and puffed at and fuzzier. I think unfortunately humanity's thread is in danger of running out and our world will become just another button lost on the floor of the galaxy...

 

Submitted by Parson Thru on

Great metaphor.

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Submitted by airyfairy on

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Submitted by Parson Thru on

Thank you airyfairy. How lovely.

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Submitted by celticman on

aye, something to be said. 

 

Submitted by Parson Thru on

Cheers celt. Hope you're keeping well.

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Submitted by Ray Schaufeld on

Like it, 'sewing buttons' seems Neil Astley-ish a poem that would suit one of his anthologies, Being Alive, Staying Alive, Being Human...smiley

Submitted by Pat G on

 

Submitted by Philip Sidney on

Our poem of the week - well done.

Submitted by Parson Thru on

Blimey blimey blimey blimey!

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