Short Clothesline Poems

cobweb clothesline
sock flapping in wind—
red oak leaf

11/7/2021...

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darkening clouds
quick race to
clothesline



posted on June 3, 2018...

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Our clothes on clothesline
alligned under the moonlight
 as  steady  couple...

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tight clothesline
billowing sheets
fresh spring breeze



posted on July 3, 2018...

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black widow silk   ~  stockings undulate from cold clothesline



12/29/2017...

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our extended clothes
         so many stories hanging
           on  clothesline of life...

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hung on the clothesline
my heart flapping
in the wind



AP: 1st place 2021

Posted on February 5, 2021...

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Sweet gum
Three pronged leaves
Foot like, dancing in breeze
Hung upon the clothesline drips blood
Scarlet  ...

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Love is not individual letters hung together like words on a clothesline, It is the whole of those words, worn upon ones skin. ...

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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...

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~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

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 rushes off
to tell her
what we
know

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~...

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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....

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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...

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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...

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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...

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.           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...

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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...

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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....

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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...

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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...

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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....

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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...

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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....

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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....

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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...

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