Lyric Poem · Love
Two Threads
Two threads alone are slender things
that any snag can sever,
but twisted close, turn after turn,
they'll hold through any weather.
So twist your days together now,
your mornings and your nights —
what starts as thread becomes, with years,
the rope that holds the heights.
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Quick facts
- Poem
- Two Threads
- Poet
- The QuillOak Editors
- Length
- 8 lines
- Form
- Lyric Poem, Rhyming Poems
- Themes
- Love, Strength
Craft notes
How this poem works
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- Shape
- 8 lines · 2 quatrains
- Line length
- Consistent with common metre. Alternating eight- and six-syllable lines — the hymn stanza (8.6.8.6), the most-used quatrain in English verse.
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Text, source & rights
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Original QuillOak text. Personal sharing is permitted; other reuse requires permission.
- Author record
- The QuillOak Editorstoday
- Source record
- QuillOak originalTwo Threads, authored for QuillOak by The Quillery
- Display decision
- Full text · United States · reviewed 2026-07-18
- Publication record
- Not recorded in the imported source
- Text fingerprint
- SHA-256 aa621da1373db841…
- Editorial handling
- Whitespace and stanza breaks normalized for web display; no material wording change recorded.
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