Clothes Call
...Does that old clothespin feel the cold
Worry about its aged look
Sun dried, rain tinted, grayed
Does it think about the “clothing”
Children’s flapping diapers
Growing to blue jeans
The “old...
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Categories:
bedspreads, clothes, life, time,
Form: Free verse
Clouds, Towels and Bedspreads
...Many see figures up in the clouds
I see them in towels and bedspreads
My family groans and says, 'Dunderhead'
~ Jealous of the fun I have in bed...
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Categories:
bedspreads, giggle, jealousy, silly, visionary,
Form: Rhyme
Shelah the Quilting Faerie
...Shelah is an autumn fairy who loves pumpkins, squash, and maize.
She lives in the best oak tree in Semi-Forgotten Forest.
Old lady down the road makes quilts, so she snags material for free.
So ma...
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Categories:
bedspreads, 4th grade, 5th grade,
Form: Prose Poetry
I Make Things
...I make things with material and thread.
To show you I care.
Beautiful pillows for you to lay your head,
Colorful quilts and bedspreads
That you can take anywhere.
I make things with material and...
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Categories:
bedspreads, adventure, art, beauty, blessing,
Form: Villanelle
The Visit
...The Visit
Dimly lit room with flowered wallpaper,
bridal chamber for a couple, 1920.
In her noontime daydream she could see back then.
Coal dust between her fingers,
a strong back from ...
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Categories:
bedspreads, family, grandparents, longing, love,
Form: Free verse
From a Mother To Her Queen of Hearts-My Lovely Children
...From A Mother To Her Queens Of Hearts
I didn't know the meaning of life,
For many many years.
The sun rose and the routine began,
Waking you, getting you ready, plaiting and ribboning,
Packing...
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Categories:
bedspreads, heart, mother daughter,
Form: Free verse
Feathers
...There are so many ways
To use some lovely feathers
As a duster or head dress
It even goes with leather
I hear you have nice earrings
when they are used in them
Now many things are made of d...
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Categories:
bedspreads, bird, flying,
Form: I do not know?
An Ordinary Object
...On my kitchen counter sits
A catch-all made of tin,
A place for scissors, pencils and
Whatever else fits in.
My room was being painted in
The color of my choice;
And finally, for furnishings,...
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Categories:
bedspreads, home,
Form: Rhyme
Summer Idyll
...She has been waiting in the wings
now, at last, it is her time to shine
slowly the bud opens to the mornings
sun, petals each reaching for sunshine
The glorious drone of the worker bees
as they rush...
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Categories:
bedspreads, children, flower, summer,
Form: Rhyme
Country Life
...The night descends with a button down moon
against a powder blue comforter sky,
fluffed and puffed with the down of seed
cat and nine tails bursting with pride.
The mothers have called the dinnertim...
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Categories:
bedspreads, family, happiness, night, autumn,
Form: Quatrain
I Am a Clutter Junkie
...First let me start by saying “I AM A CLUTTER JUNKIE”
A clutter junkie collects things any and all things, things that are unimportant and often cheap
Things that have no purpose or meaning.
Things...
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Categories:
bedspreads, funny, on work and
Form: I do not know?
An Evening In August
...In early August,before summer ends,
before the winds of autumn gust,
before new fashions and new friends,
watching the glaze of the sun at dusk,
The evening sky painted gold,yet cool,
the days a...
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Categories:
bedspreads, loveautumn,
Form: I do not know?
North Carolina and the Moment In Which People Kiss.
...I sang the words of
Joni
Mitchell
and pretended to own barstools as my sweaters lost color, I scribbled words on napkins and
slid drinks underneath them, I pretended to be...
him.
“Bu...
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Categories:
bedspreads, love, passion, places, words,
Form: Prose Poetry
Liza Loo
...How many times can I say
that I miss you?
How many nights will I think
"what would Liza do?"
how many ways do I think of Liza? -
as many and big as the sky is blue!!!
but I'm stuck in here in ...
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Categories:
bedspreads, daughter, father, children, love,
Form: Rhyme