Love Poem: A Doily a Day
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Written by: Kim Rodrigues

A Doily a Day

delicate lace linked by crochet labyrinthine stitches a doily a day counted by repetitious candlelight motherly hands of preponderant foresight twisting and surrender of silent threads tucking each one into intricate spreads lovingly lace reflects persistence of face a warm cosseted Victorian embrace from hands that stumbled with wrinkles forlorn and gnarled knots, catastrophic crinkles yet the warm, soft hand that comforts her ill a kin that kindles the fire and spins with skill she’s mastered the lessons rendered at the knee of longsuffering love and mother’s humble marquee