These Are The Days Of Clothes Hung Outside Drying Poem by Terence George Craddock

on a fine hot sunny summer day when the sky is blue not a cloud
in the sky the clothes well washed in the washing machine taken out
hung on a line will dry well baked dry in beautiful warming sunlight

on winter morning soon after hung clothes may steam
with water vapour rising in winter day drying not long
after hung out a strange happy steaming sight to see

on spring or autumn days clothes first sun warmed will
fast dry well breeze wind caressed even faster on a summers
day clothes will fast dry warm then happy hot to touch

on a winters day if left late clothes will feel cold
to touch may be taken inside to air happy sunny
summer day drying clothes drying clean warm crisp

on dark cloudy days on rainy days clothes hung dried under
shelter will not dry well may take a day or two even sulk
smell with a tinge of unhappy no sun to dry me melancholy

an infamous strange musty weird smell those cloudy days
rainy days not drying well laundry women much work
hot ironed sheets to get them warm crisp hotel use happy

today after washing machine spins drier a wet bundle
of clothes twice before waiting clothes dryer takes
up the task an invention the dryer can whip up a bundle

of dried clothes in less than half a happy
hour left in machine no effort required these
are the days of clothes hung outside drying


Terence George Craddock (Afterglows Echoes Of Starlight)
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