Best Clothespins Poems

Whining, it happens when blizzards come calling
Grabbing a jacket I walk down the stairs
Beside the window where winter is lurking
Waiting about as if nobody cares

Coating...

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The house where I grew up
Came with a clothesline in the back,
A dryer being something that
Most homes those days did lack.

I learned to hang the...

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A seething summer morning in the oil boom trailer park
Oral Roberts on the radio with the gospel told by Mark
The reek of raw petroleum is...

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(A Rave By A Poet)      

Remember when you were a child? 
Adults seemed then to be in control, 
Almost like...

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We weren't rich by any means
but our bellies were full and our clothes were clean

They didn't display those high priced names
but they wore fine just...

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There was an old woman from Brighton

Whose face the small children would frighten

     “Egad, why these wrinkles?

    ...

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Grandma Gretchen's in her rocker and she has something to say. 

She tells a visitor, a young man from the city, if he plans to...

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Sentries of the night stand guard in perfect formation
Across the stretch of wire, like clothespins on a line
While speckled flocks of grackle stain the landscape
Spots...

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Wings of a monarch butterfly 
erratically flapping against a breeze.
Slimy trail of a snail
leaving ground ooze below the knees.

Clear sky of night has a pristine...

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Frayed and puckered in a heap
Skivvies on top, worn socks beneath
Lace collar curled up in disgust
Offensive smells to upper crust

Deep baskets poured out jumbled loads
Soap...

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Did You Learn Anything?

Go ahead.
Put your shoes on.
Walk outside and face the nervous day.
Know that your lungs will not resist you.
Know that your heart will...

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She walks six floors up, resting between
To use rooftop clothes lines always unseen
 Hammocking deeply from wind blowing mean

Wooden clothespins hug the slack lines
Standing attention,...

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Birdies on a branch are cuddled up so fine
Bunched up closer than clothespins on a line
Snoring in sync, a luscious lullaby in a whispery way
The...

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Bruce Banner turned into the Hulk when he got a flu shot.
He turned into the Hulk because it hurt a lot.
He smashed the doctor's office...

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Waking up country
puts a smile on my face as
the golden sun tells me it is daylight,
my eyes open to its glorious sight.

Waking up country
is an...

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