Why not
weave just as your life is –
a tapestry that is you.
You can do that with art,
and you can do it with life, too.
It is not that hard.
Choose that which grounds you to be there first –
earth, love, identity, spirit.
Then add all that is you and soar upward.
Find patterns and
feel rhythm:
Inhale exhale
laugh cry
work play
give receive
rejoice mourn
lose and gain.
Over – under
over – under
over – under.
Put yourself into it:
swatches of an old skirt,
bark from the woodpile,
yarn from his scarf,
a gifted rock,
garden twine from the garage,
patching from your jeans,
and certainly pages from your favorite story.
They are you
woven together
as the fabric
of your life.
Just Sifting 
This is enchanting! I love how you did this!! My blog is named common threads because of all that we weave into life, threads that intermingle and mix and overlap and dance. I love the verse and the photo. A powerful blog today. Have you ever read Foolsgold by Susan Wooldridge? She talks about her process of nature collage and the creative spirit she finds in the outdoors. Your writing reminds me of hers! I love what you’ve done here today.
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Thank you! I will definitely check out that book – it seems that I would love it. I have noticed the name of your blog site and it caught my eye even previously. So cool 🙂
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Deb, this is marvelous. Let’s weave together! It would be very therapeutic! I love the cadence of your poem and the message it wove.
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Thank you! I would love to weave together! I finally re-discovered something that I really love to do with my stash of yarn. I don’t know why it took me so long- I made literally hundreds of woven potholders back in the day. It’s coming around again, I guess:)
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I love your word choice of paired words and then how as I read it, it felt like I was weaving.
This slice has such rhythm and such meaning. Love the photo you added at the end, too.
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This classical metaphor gains new life with your extension of it. The inclusion of the objects in the weaving would seem to be figurative tropes, but then the lovely picture of your product reveals that your speaker paradoxically expresses the figurative and the literal simultaneously. Now that is powerful!
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