Saturday, April 13, 2019

"The old threads are unraveling,
Get your needles ready.
We are stitching a new quilt 
of humanity.
Bring your old t-shirts,
worn out jeans, scarves,
antique gowns, aprons,
old pockets of plenty
who have held Earth's treasures,
stones, feathers, leaves,
love notes on paper.
Each stitch
A mindful meditation.
Each piece of material
A story.
The more color the better,
so call in the tribes.
Threads of browns, whites,
reds, oranges
Women from all nations
start stitching.
Let's recycle the hate, the abuse,
the fear, the judgment.
Turn it over, wash it clean,
ring it out to dry.
It's a revolution
of recycled wears.
Threads of greens, blues, purples
Colorful threads
of peace, kindness,
respect, compassion
are being stitched
from one continent to the next
over forests, oceans, mountains.
The work is hard
Your fingers may bleed.
But each cloth stitched together
Brings together a community.
A world, our future world
Under one colorful quilt.
The new quilt of humanity."
~Julia Myers


Art Gina Litherland


3 comments:

svds said...

Hello! I love this poem by Julia Myers. Could you tell me where it is published? I'd love to read more of her work. Thanks!

Kaye Wilkinson Barley - Meanderings and Muses said...

It's lovely, isn't it?! I'm fairly sure I stumbled across this at Facebook, but I keep meaning to search for her work to see if she's perhaps published a book or two.

MaryAnn said...

I’ve been searching with Google as well to learn more about her and when/where this poem was published, to give credit. I haven’t found anything!