I got my blog title from my oldest daughter. When she was in grade school she came home with a drawing. I asked her what it was about. She informed me it was a picture of me doing laundry. She also informed me the teacher had asked the class do a drawing of what their mothers did for a living. Well, I didn’t do laundry for a living although it seems I was always doing it. My daughter also shared the pictures had been displayed on the wall of their classroom. I could just see it. My drawing hung next to “My Mommy the Doctor” or “My Mommy the Lawyer.” I decided to make the best of it and proclaimed myself as the deity, Laundry Goddess.
laundry confessions
a poetic potpourri
scattered through verses
Lift Your Pen
I know not the inspiration
when I sit down to write.
It may be the words
spoken in a photograph,
the melody of a wind chime,
the moon outside my window.
All I know is what
my spirit whispers.
life is a poem
just waiting to be written
lift your pen and speak
©Susie Clevenger 2012
Photograph: Iowa State
29 Days of 29 Haiku
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p.s. there's a fab Scottish play called 'The Steamie' set in a communal laundry and featuring ladies just like the ones in your photograph
Life is a poem...always lift your pen..you shine ~
The haiku and accompanying poem are excellent.
I loved your Verse,It tells about your simple,mundane Inspirations which is a wonder in itself.
A Great Poet seldomly needs great inspirations,He/she seeks it in the mundaneness of Life.
'life is a poem
just waiting to be written
lift your pen and speak'
I also liked the note on which you end your verses,imprinting inspirations!
I'm happy to read the reason for your Blog name.
Thank you Susie :)
I love your second poem. Life is a poem-love that!
Magical and Mystical