She Smoked
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She smoked
She smoked,
my mother did, a LOT!
I never liked it.
To me she looked like
of those “molls” in
detective magazines,
later on television,
cigarette dangling
from the corner ...
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Categories:
housedress, addiction, endurance, mother, perspective,
Form: Free verse
she liked her old housedress
...she is wearing a bedraggled housedress
blue with enormously large red and yellow mums
it is faded now, but really soft, threadbare in spots
we surprise her with a new one for her eightieth birth...
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Categories:
housedress, woman,
Form: Free verse
She Cared
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Her hands were forever moving, occupied with work
Leaving trails of memories across my heart
Whispering hope to my spirit
Silencing my worries and fears
Lighting the way for serenity
T...
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Categories:
housedress, family, grandmother, love,
Form: Free verse
New Neighbors, Part I
...As Miss Luby watches from her window
a moving van backs up
the driveway across the street
BEEP! BEEP! BEEP! BEEP!
its warning cry has a beacon-like effect
on the neighborhood
arousing in...
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Categories:
housedress, community, humanity, humor, humorous,
Form: Free verse
Blue Daisy
...While lounging in my duster* watching news,
I have my morning coffee. When I'm through,
I wash my cup and saucer and admire
their elegance and pleasing shade of blue.
Like other lovely things I...
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Categories:
housedress, beautiful, blue, flower,
Form: Iambic Pentameter
Aunt Ruth
...Aunt Ruth came to the door in her housedress and hairnet.
Her dark hair cropped short allowing only the smallest curl to float free.
It was right in the middle of her forehead. A spit curl I think ...
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Categories:
housedress, anxiety, family, i miss
Form: Free verse
Comfortable
...My mother wore a duster
(Or a housedress) ‘round the house,
Which was once the garb of women
(Even lacking kids or spouse).
It was likely made of cotton
In a shift-style meant for ease,
Much ...
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Categories:
housedress, clothes, home,
Form: Rhyme
Housedress
...Amid the sexy lingerie
The bride-to-be received,
There was a garment out of place,
Or so some folks believed.
It was a housedress from the past,
A little drab and faded,
In which the grandma of the ...
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Categories:
housedress, bridal shower, nostalgia,
Form: Rhyme
Still Trying To Get Home Pt2
...continued from Pt1
My knocks were answered by an old woman in a housedress.
As I begin to explain, I felt the chill of the rain. I expected this woman to tell me I was
insan...
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Categories:
housedress, mystery, science fictionwoman,
Form: Free verse