“A writer is like a bag lady going through life with a sack and a  pointed stick collecting stuff.” –Tony Hillerman

Poems are the wool ends

Poems are the wool ends
which stuff the small crafts
the pincushions and the dolls.

They are the fabric leftovers
of jeans, taffeta dresses
Christmas aprons
and a daughter’s fluorescent play suit
pieced into a quilt.

They are the tiles of a life –
smell of breakfast cinnamon buns
notes of “Pomp and Circumstance”
the womb-wrap
of mother’s arms –
arranged in a mosaic.

They are all those accessories
one’s house doesn’t really need
but would be soul-less
without them.

© 2006 by Violet Nesdoly

Poetry Portfolio

Read a collection of new and previously published poems at Violet Nesdoly / poems

Published Online

• Trinkets – Utmost Christian Writers

• Stare Into the Dark – MB Herald

• To Mother – Prairie Messenger

• Master Gardener’s Touch – Prairie Messenger

• In His Shop – Prairie Messenger

• Some Words – Prairie Messenger

• October Fashion – Prairie Messenger

Award-winning poems

• Forest Usurper (Honorable Mention – Fire Scene theme Canadian Christian Poetry Contest, November 2009)

• To Mother (Honorable Mention – The Ontario Poetry Society, Open Heart 4 Poetry Competition, January 2009)

• His Name (Honorable Mention – Canadian Christian Poetry Contest, October 2008)

• Flag (First place – Canadian Christian Poetry Contest, July 2008)

• Canadian Rivers (Honorable Mention – Canadian Christian Poetry Contest, October 2007)

• Converting to Childhood (Merit Award – Utmost Christian Poetry Contest 2007)

• Wisdom of the Scarecrow (Honorable Mention – Utmost Christian Poetry Contest 2006)

• Transformation (Honorable Mention – Utmost Christian Poetry Contest 2005)

• Baptism (Honorable Mention – Utmost Christian Poetry Contest 2004)

Poetry Books for Sale

Calendar

SparrowSong Press, 2004
ISBN 0-9735842-0-3

SAMPLE POEM:
The Day Daddy Died

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Family Reunion

Utmost Christian Writers Foundation, 2007
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
ISBN 978-0-9734043-6-4
Perfect bound, 60pp

SAMPLE POEM:
Family Reunion

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