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By Ali Cecilie Sonder Submitted by RennieLorca Date: 2002 Aug 14 Comment on this Work [[2002.08.14.15.29.553]] |
| In times of war with soldiers gone, women were left to worry and fend for themselves and family. The tragedies of these wives, mothers, daughters are often told, but their hopeful lives of love and romance are often lost or forgotten.
How a stitch in time saved nine long ago ...
Today this simple mending chore
brought memories of tales from others
I have listened to who knitted
in the cold to buy food to eat ...
meager rations from refuse of
potato, beet, stale bread ...
these starved hardworking mothers
ever grateful they weren't dead ...
creative stitches for survival as
hands labored to buy rotten cabbages;
life-bargaining with far-off gaze
while they dreamed of family and heat.
once young and vibrant women
courted, wooed, wedded and bedded
with flowers and candy and kisses, now
memories locked in stitches to get fed.
(c) 2000 Ali Cecilie Sonder aka Rennie Lorca
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