Short Clothesline Poems
Short Clothesline Poems. Below are examples of the most popular short poems about Clothesline by PoetrySoup poets. Search short poems about Clothesline by length and keyword.
Sweet gum
Three pronged leaves
Foot like, dancing in breeze
Hung upon the clothesline drips blood
Scarlet
Categories:
clothesline, life, nature,
Form:
Cinquain
Love is not individual letters hung together like words on a clothesline, It is the whole of those words, worn upon ones skin.
Categories:
clothesline, love,
Form:
Free verse
Photographs hanging on a clothesline
Some in color, some black and white
My picture is pinned right up with theirs
In the sky filled with cumulus clouds
Categories:
clothesline, beautiful, relationship,
Form:
Free verse
Wind
sends out
a clever
breeze, who finds us
at our schoolwork, near Mother's hanging wash
Snapping back the corners of clean white sheets,
it tumbles off
to tell her
what we
know
Categories:
clothesline, children, student, teacher, weather, wind,
Form:
Tetractys
My heart on the clothesline
drip drying in evening’s breeze
washed in introspection
rinsed in morning dew
fresh and clean and new ~
till an evil little birdie
flew by
and
pooped on me
Categories:
clothesline, funny, uplifting,
Form:
Free verse
pond of piranhas
become as hot as Hades
clothesline of deaf ears
11/11/2017
A gloom I found
hot as Hades in a garden
of dreams, fairy tales,
romance, and music.
Categories:
clothesline, bullying,
Form:
Senryu
Why do some scarab beetles have horns and others do not?
The answer to six scientific questions like this, I avidly sought.
To throw down their contender, said man who been a beetle.
To put them on a clothesline suggested a jokester named Meetle.
Categories:
clothesline, 3rd grade, 4th grade, 5th grade, 6th
Form:
Rhyme
Why do some scarab beetles have horns and others do not?
The answer to six scientific questions like this, I avidly sought.
To throw down their contender, said man who been a beetle.
To put them on a clothesline suggested a jokester named Meetle.
Categories:
clothesline, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 8th
Form:
Monorhyme
Polite ghosts pinned on a clothesline,
Dancing daintily in the breeze.
Using please and thank you
Practicing manners with much ease
Respecting each other’s ideas
Without a bully or a tease,
They plan their class reunion,
Putting their scariness on freeze
Categories:
clothesline, 2nd grade, 3rd grade, 4th grade, 5th
Form:
Rhyme
Polly, pretty in pink pinned her hearts onto a classy clothesline
Showing off her fancy embroidered skirt in a way that was fine.
We voyeurs watched from our windows, amazed as she pinned a rose.
Hanging Chinese lanterns, hearts and flowers, no room for any clothes.
Categories:
clothesline, 11th grade, 12th grade, 1st grade, 2nd
Form:
Rhyme
Blown into tiny smithereens
Festooned with velvet drapes
A nightly dream, what could it mean
Holding the fast escape
Waiting to meet another sun
Dreams lined up the clothesline
Sagging to revive unread plan
Let free my confined mind
Date: March 30, 2015
Categories:
clothesline, character, dream, imagination, memory, night, sleep,
Form:
Rhyme
The Blue Jay's call wheels from his throat
like an un-oiled clothesline
psychotic in the frozen air
he lands his leathery feet amongst
the scattering of assorted birds and seeds
bouncing like shrapnel around the feeder
and until the cat comes
he is king of the morning buffet
Categories:
clothesline, bird, nature,
Form:
Free verse
. hidden in ruins
buried deep
yet
emotions seeped
funeral will close the casket
wounds
opened up
tears never to evaporate
love dries on the clothesline
Mount Royal
a lingering photo
train stations then
cemeteries now
Categories:
clothesline, angst, child, death, introspection, psychological, remember,
Form:
Free verse
Below the clothesline they sit, writing fast,
a spelling test
by their mom,
each wants
full
marks,
mom sits,
scale in hand,
the ink will dry,
innocent reflections linger behind.
11.19.2020
Image#1
For Eve Roper's "Double Tetractys 6" contest
Categories:
clothesline, childhood, children, sweet,
Form:
Tetractys
I’m sure my mother’s punishing
The clothes that she hangs there
I don’t know the crime they commit
But I can’t help but stare
At clothes flapping in the warm wind
Treacherously secure
To a wire stretched thin from two poles
For some purpose impure
©Copyright 2015. All rights reserved.
Categories:
clothesline, funny,
Form:
Rhyme
wind dry
in the sun
clothesline magic
pinned in happy delight
fresh smell
wet blouse
waves gaily
clothesline magic
brave flipping and flopping
wind blown
denium
Heavy jeans
extra pinning
bogging down the wire
bending
clothes line
nostalgia
backyard neighbor
moms pinning together
60’s
Categories:
clothesline, nostalgia,
Form:
Cinqku
Redbud and dogwood have blossomed
above the tulips and jonquils where
Alice's house used to be.
A possum and raccoon nose around
where the garage was before the tornado.
An armadillo has joined them.
Someone has hung a red feeder from
the old clothesline. No hummingbirds yet.
Spring has brought new life over there.
Donal Mahoney
Categories:
clothesline, nature,
Form:
Blank verse
The one who has been cleansed and purified
Is like a washed dress now sans grime and dirt;
Yet it has been stained once again inside,
As the smudge of wrong shows no joy and mirth;
Because the cord used is not firmly tied,
The garment falls down on this dusty earth.
The strong and steadfast man will overcome
The world’s enticement offered to his palm.
Categories:
clothesline, sin,
Form:
Ottava rima
hanging so close on the clothesline
touching like lovers new
I yours and in silence yours mine
something we never do
Our thoughts might be along those lines
in dreams are more than close
Yet on the clothesline we are fine
touching and no one knows
Penned April 1 2015 by Seren Roberts
Contest title: let me feel your lines
Theme : no 3. Clothesline
Categories:
clothesline, clothes,
Form:
Rhyme
Window viewing a wall
knows no world other than
brick square against nothing;
laundry blows in the yellow
tinged wind. Flaps mimic
birds flying. Bras trapped by
wooden pins, splintering. Grey
points piercing smoldering
dust and fiber on its way
to the refuse below. A push
from an unseen hot whisper
of foul breath smashes it
into a window viewing a wall.
Categories:
clothesline, city,
Form:
Free verse
I pegged them out on my clothes line,
Like puppets on a string.
Those baggy pants fit for a clown,
Such laughter they did bring.
That claret shirt, high as a kite,
And three sheets to the wind.
They will dry out, to my delight,
My wet suit it has sinned.
George. Seal. 4/ 1/ 2015.
No. 3 clothesline.
Let me feel your lines.
Categories:
clothesline, clothes,
Form:
Rhyme
When spring arrived, my mother dear
hung things on the clothesline.
The bed sheets were a spotless white.
She loved to see those shine!
Dried in the sun, they nearly gleamed
and also waving there
in April’s breeze, on full display-
our old bleached underwear!
#3 : Clothesline
for the LET ME FEEL YOUR LINES Contest of nette onclaud
Categories:
clothesline, childhood,
Form:
Rhyme
Line after line of fresh diapers
A daily chore for years
Clotheslines held six dozen each day
Unless weather unclear
Two little ones not potty trained
Now grown and on their own
They hold up a lifeline of love
Since the soft nest they've flown
Sponsor: Nette Onclaud
Contest: Let Me Feel Your Lines
# 3. Clothesline
Written by: Sara Kendrick
March 30, 2015
Categories:
clothesline, children,
Form:
Rhyme
HOT FLOWER
Grows red blooms breaths
Growing summer hot flower
Heated hot passionate
Burning torrid summer blaze
Vividly flowing colourfully like a sheet on the clothesline
Moving growing amidst the land surrounding streams flourishing
Flourishing growing summer hot flower
Grows red blooms breaths
6/15/20
written words by James Edward Lee Sr. ©2020
OCTOPOEM poetry form
Categories:
clothesline, analogy, flower, summer,
Form:
Free verse
Freshness,
Never Smelled So Good,
Remembering,
My Grandmother's Bed Sheets,
As,
They Dried,
On The Clothesline,
Beautiful,
Wrinkled Colors,
Waving,
At Me,
Upon,
Gentle Breezes,
Then,
Off To Bed,
Dried,
And Tucked In,
Rocking,
My Senses,
To Sleep,
Fresh Air,
Cuddled,
With Me,
Memories,
Like These,
Pinned,
In My,
Sleepy,
Little Head.
Categories:
clothesline, appreciation, child, grandmother, happiness, love,
Form:
Free verse