Short Clotheslines Poems

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

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    Why is my salary any business of yours
       or yours any business of mine

    Remember when we aired out our laundry
       on strictly private clotheslines 
...

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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...

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Memories that behind 
glass windows /on the door sill, 
those carved in the wall and 
emerged with shadows 
Memories that whimper in the way of the cemetery, 
Memories abandoned on banks of streets,
Memories that stuck in footstep
Memories that laid on clotheslines
and also...
that slip from head accidentally
  
All these memories...
I am certain they will return; 
As they never eaten from rust!...

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comets strike terror
bombing  nations rapid fire...
a slaughterhouse roasts

spiked towers pierce  flesh…
drenched with  blood  of raw corpses
like clotheslines  on trees

from skies tainted black
grounds crumble into thin rust…
world in drained sandbag

then, God says enough
angels swoop to  tend remains…
guarding earth anew


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Gail Doyle's Contest
End of the World Armageddon...

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Abstract images dripping shadows
Through one's reveries--- cycles grasped 
by an artist's palm, scraping the easel--
Mosaic of  fallen birds caught within blended tints;
Acrylic pictures woven together, 
Hung through clotheslines... soaring like love unrequited.
Within edges of a framework, paint coagulates,
Full of stale cigar smoke as wax droppings
break from many nights' forsaken candles.



Broken Wings Contest-- Dust Off A Memory 
25th Oct  2017...

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