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Clothespins Poems - Poems about Clothespins

Premium Member giant clothespins as art
...giant clothespins as art? I never realize they could be But they are Philadelphia has one made of steel Designed by Claes Oldenburg That clothespin is facing upside down It could pin photogra......

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Categories: clothespins, art,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Starling
...When I was small the starlings roosted one by one on grandma’s party line wire (like jittery black clothespins) to bandy their gossip back and forth until the wire hummed with their inanities.......

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Categories: clothespins, bird, childhood, death,
Form: Free verse



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......

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Categories: clothespins, easter, future, god, jesus,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Most Unusual Evangelical One-Man Band
...An old preacher named Ned Got it into his head To make a musical pilgrimage Before he was dead. He claimed divine inspiration To form a band and tour the nation, And by so doing treat its ills,......

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Categories: clothespins, humor,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member Birdies On a Branch
...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 rest of the forest animals cannot look away Thei......

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Categories: clothespins, bird,
Form: Rhyme



A Carrot Cake Tributary Visit
...the fence is now made of rust the patio now has a see through floor the grass is now a mirror for the aging sun the trees are now all skeletons in the unfortunate name of abandonment the clothe......

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Categories: clothespins, memory, remember, remembrance day,
Form: Free verse
Clothesline
...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 towels, Overlapping just a bit, Since by doin......

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Categories: clothespins, memory,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Imagination's Ghosts
...laundry lines wooden clothespins white sheets flapping... ghosts of my imagination... like Halloween this year disappeared......

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Categories: clothespins, clothes, halloween, imagination,
Form: Imagism
Flapping In the Breeze
...Clothespins squeak Sheets flap Absorbing the scent of nature......

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Categories: clothespins, nature, sunshine, wind,
Form: Haiku
Waking Up Country
...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 open kitchen window dressed with red and white......

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Categories: clothespins, appreciation, environment, farm, happiness,
Form: Rhyme
Clothespins
...Years ago, in Holland, In a cool, eclectic store, I bought a set of clothespins To jazz up my home décor. Of brightly colored wood And smaller than the average size, I pictured them with phot......

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Categories: clothespins, home,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Did You Learn Anything
...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 still stir. Put the key in the ......

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Categories: clothespins, memory,
Form: Free verse
Hulk's Rampage
...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 and broke the doctor's neck. You should've seen that office ......

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Categories: clothespins, green, humor,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Do-It-Yourself Facelift
...There was an old woman from Brighton Whose face the small children would frighten “Egad, why these wrinkles? My eyes lost their twinkles!” Her skin she used clothespins to tight......

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Categories: clothespins, age, humor,
Form: Limerick
Doing Laundry On a Farm In the Fifities
...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 write a book about life on a farm in the Fifties, he likely has a lot......

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Categories: clothespins, age, farm,
Form: Prose

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