This week let’s write a laundry poem. Is it just a chore or is there a beauty in laundry, perhaps even an art? Post your answer below.
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Monday Poetry Prompt: Laundry
This week let’s write a laundry poem. Is it just a chore or is there a beauty in laundry, perhaps even an art? Post your answer below.
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I wrote a poem once that was inspired by doing my laundry while reading Edgar Alan Poe’s “The Maelstrom.” Sorry it’s not a new one, but I’m not surprised if the laundry would inspire other poems.
Life is Clean
Ah, yes, what is life? Just part
of that great cycle we call
Whirlpool. Twenty minutes. Lathered up,
agitated, spun, squeezed damp
against the wall by forces we
cannot control, then tossed
into another hopper,
desiccated.
Hot/Cold, Warm/Cold,
Cold/Cold, Warm/Warm.
Choices we must make.
Normal Cycle? What is
Art? Perma Pressed
to stop time? Do we then
come back to be used,
soiled again, tossed once more
into the Maelstrom without
even a boat?
The endless cycle.
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Posted by Cal Nordt | January 22, 2018, 7:27 PMJust posted my poem to my blog: https://bartbarker.wordpress.com/2018/01/22/laundry/
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Posted by Bartholomew Barker | January 22, 2018, 8:24 PMIs the deck stacked? Did you choose the prompt because you had a laundry poem in the wings? 🙂
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Posted by JeanMarie | January 23, 2018, 7:46 PMNo to both questions. I wrote that little poem after I posted the prompt.
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Posted by Bartholomew Barker | January 23, 2018, 7:58 PMAt least you couldn’t accuse me of that, JeanMarie!
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Posted by Cal Nordt | January 23, 2018, 9:53 PMLaundry is a never-ending chore
But don’t eat the detergent
or you will be no more.
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Posted by JeanMarie | January 23, 2018, 7:46 PM