Only Mad Dogs and Washing Lines Go Out in the Midday Sun…
The clothes now wave that hang upon
the tired old line that stretches from
a leaning pole to a rusted hook
left here now for folk to look.
Every garment pegged and spaced
each shirt and sheet carefully placed
along the line the socks will run
until they dry in the scorching sun.
Have Bag, Will Travel 
I adore photos of laundry.
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One of my favourite subjects!
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And poetry to go with it!
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Just this once!
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Love this post!
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Thank you!
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😀
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Brilliant, just brilliant 🙂
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Thank you, I appreciate that!
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Fun and creative – excellent !
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Thank you so much!
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For some reason, other peoples’ clothes dancing in the breeze make me smile. Love the poem, too!
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Washing lines are so photogenic. In our apartment in Lisbon this year we had one of those outside the window washing lines with a system of pulleys to get washing in and out of a small window. I washed things for no other reason than to use it!
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Your poetry, or borrowed? I like it 🙂 🙂
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A bit of both, someone else’s idea, my words!
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Great minds 🙂
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I like it!
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One of my favourite photo subjects too Andrew. Cant imagine my own laundry being photo worthy but my camera leaps to action when traveling and seeing others.
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I imagine your laundry is just as interesting as any one ones!
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Haha well I suppose you are right at that. Everything just seems more interesting when we travel. 🙂
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Clothes lines are rare in America, having been replaced by driers. But I always like the smell of clothes dried outside. I am always amazed at the creative approach Europeans use to dry their clothes. Like you, Andrew, I can’t resist the urge to photograph the results. Nice poem, BTW. 🙂 –Curt
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I may have mentioned this but in Lisbon our apartment had a clothes line with pulleys so that it was possible to load a full line from a small bathroom window. I was so excited I washed clothes just for the sake of it!
I guess most people in the UK will hang washing outside to dry whenever they can.
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Laughing. So all Kim needs to do at home is get a clothesline with a pulley and you will do all the laundry at home.
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We have a good arrangement, I fill the washing machine and peg out the clothes to dry, Kim brings it in and irons it. I think I get the best deal!
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Not exactly the Siegfried Line .
Seems to be something missing;
Do these people wear underpants? 😈
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I’ll do some research next time I am photographing washing lines!
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Well I hope you do 😈 🐻
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When did you start submitting poems? It was very good. I liked it.
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Thank you!
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