IVORY FLAKES
...IVORY FLAKES
As one hand gives, the other takes
Laundry can be both a task and joy
Yet when an imposition, can annoy
And all remaining respect, destroy
Washday is not merely Ivory Flakes
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Categories:
washday, care, work,
Form: Rhyme
That Squeeze Box
...The Friday that is here today
was here yesterday, of course.
That's what getting older seems to be, to do:
today was yesterday
was the day before
and before.
It's my weekly washday today -
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Categories:
washday, allusion, anxiety, time, today,
Form: Free verse
Those Washday Dreams
...The washing’s all done
But it’s raining outside,
The coal fire is burning
So I sneak in to hide
Between fireplace
And clothes horse,
The fireplace being
The only heat source.
A refuge o...
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Categories:
washday, childhood, joy, memory,
Form: Rhyme
Mundane Things
...Equinox—the sun
Bright—shining—washday hang-out
September's closing...
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Categories:
washday, beautiful, feelings, imagination, nostalgia,
Form: Haiku
Washday At the Zoo
...Washday at the Zoo
Peg out the elephants!
Hang up the hippos!
Let the bison and wildeb...
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Categories:
washday, funny
Form: Free verse