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Clothesline Poems - Poems about Clothesline

Clothesline Poems - Examples of all types of poems about clothesline to share and read. This list of new poems is composed of the works of modern poets of PoetrySoup. Read short, long, best, and famous examples for clothesline.
Premium Member Put them together
...School is starting in one hundred and ninety-two heat. Surely you jest! Said a staid guy name of Absolute Pete. It’s hotter than a sauna, so you be the judge, okay? This was said by an exaggerator......Read the rest...
Categories: clothesline, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme



Relax it's only a cross
...Relax, count my breath up to 4 Recall how Jesus chilled on His cross Pinned like a cool butterfly Hung like a shroud on the line The crown of thorns felt fine The nails betwixt ulna and radius d......Read the rest...
Categories: clothesline, easter, future, god, jesus,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Grandma's Old Wringer Washer -
...In the 50's mom and grand Had that old Maytag™ drum washer It would twist and dance ~ Wiggle N turn Like a baby wobble That old washing machine ~ had a motor almost as big as a Volkswagen......Read the rest...
Categories: clothesline, analogy, caregiving, perspective, work,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Trick Or Treat
...After the day’s work I was off to bed. From behind my room, I heard a fierce thud. It sounded so scary. It left me so weary. I got up from my bed in severe dread. In dim light, saw......Read the rest...
Categories: clothesline, crazy, dark, fear, halloween,
Form: Limerick
Golden Shovel
...Battery percentage drained to fifty Discomfort over exposed mattress springs Deposits into local banks are Hard to come by with little Hope for a hot meal and a stable room Hours spent searching......Read the rest...
Categories: clothesline, appreciation, hope, money, winter,
Form: Verse



Premium Member What Do I See
...What do I see when I drive through my old neighborhood? Not the familiar cookie cutter houses or the elementary school I attended with my friends. Instead… I see my ten-year-old self clad in sa......Read the rest...
Categories: clothesline, 12th grade, childhood, friend,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member My Simple Life
...I’m so happy sitting with my mom here. We cuddle on the steps by our front door. Our cat is here too bringing me such cheer and nearby is my bike that I adore. My clothes are hanging by our house......Read the rest...
Categories: clothesline, life,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Tree
...The bark was almost the color of charcoal and too rough for a boy to grip and hold on to climb without bare skin being grazed and scraped back to bloodied welts. The trunk was scabbed in gum ......Read the rest...
Categories: clothesline, childhood, seasons, tree,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member When Doves Cry
...Cooling off in falling months, approaching dusk. Coordinated chill and quilting of snow, brusque. Cooking lots of soup, beating down dough, as the wind whoops on a weeping willow. The sky blue ......Read the rest...
Categories: clothesline, death, imagery,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Drill
...THE DRILL Arrive with boots. The march early or late. The rose-fed cheeks. The eyes are green - new leaves. The cadence call. No turning back. Blank slate. New beginnings. In adventures, believ......Read the rest...
Categories: clothesline, military,
Form: Sonnet
South Boulder Road
...The summer sea sky has traveled inland and the rolling of the Spanish hills make me hungry for adventure I am feet on the dashboard, a mouth full of salt water, a nosebleed that is somehow roma......Read the rest...
Categories: clothesline, love, romance, romantic, romantic
Form: Free verse
Butterflies
...I knew a girl once who had a clothesline that ran across her kitchen. When she would water her houseplants, she could never remember how much water each one needed to maintain a healthy gre......Read the rest...
Categories: clothesline, love,
Form: Free verse
Instant Regret and a Dizzy Blank Stare
...a broken phone in the muddy dirt a neglected charger hanging on a badly worn clothesline turned down for another loan everything has been cut off or repossessed now all my stuff is baking in the ......Read the rest...
Categories: clothesline, confusion, fear, how i
Form: Free verse
Mucked Up Moon
...Erroneous mirror scatters his face Mills his skin into thin porous powder Muck which gets stuck under tongue in a paste Mouth stuffed with rubble cement rancid sour ......Read the rest...
Categories: clothesline, 11th grade, childhood, moving
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Son of a Tank
...your life wasn't easy I was nine that morning your battered face you said you ran into a clothesline pole but it was a tank the same one I ran into when you took us away I should have been......Read the rest...
Categories: clothesline, mother,
Form: Free verse

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