20 responses to “Poetry as a clothesline

  1. AHHHHHHHHH, I LOVE this. After reading darkness, how lovely to think of poems strung on a clothesline in the sun, poetry to delight one as a buttercup rewards the bee. My favourite poem I read today.

  2. Damn fine…you killed the prompt with beauty and nostalgia. This was amazing my friend.

  3. I love this❣️For some unknown reason, the sight of clothes on a clothesline blowing in the wind has always moved me. 🙂

  4. Oh I do love this. I really do. From the sheets flapping in the wind to the buttercup and the bee.

  5. To this day I am still enthralled with the scent of sun dried cotton. A tree killed our clothesline during a tornado last year. We have planted cucumbets and squash in its place. An interesting take on the prompt!

  6. Very nicely said, Bjorn. We have a saying here, “hang out your laundry.” I.e. tell what is troubling you or do you have gripe.”
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  7. Two evocative images.. and you peg them out in true poetic style, letting the reader imagine the rest.

    • There’s a neat balance between the stanzas. LOL, the most obvious is one between clean and dirty, but purient thoughts aside. But I am very charmed by the idea of balance between what is shown, and the hidden mechanations behind the scenes, which is exactly the essence of poetry.

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