Susie's Challenge

Hello it is me Ella. It was my turn with the baton. I had to select someone and bestow a challenge. I decided to pick the Laundry Goddess, herself, Susie.  I love Susie's byline:

I am hearing poetry when awake

Dreaming poetry when asleep

Breathing poetry with each breath

I am living in a poem

Dirty Laundry by ~jnati

What about poetry when doing laundry?  I challenged Susie to write a poem using words involved with doing laundry, for example: wash, rinse, spin and dry.  I told her she could use what she wanted regarding these terms. The true challenge was to use laundry products in her poem. I emailed her a list and told her to use 7 product names.  I checked with her later on, to see how she was doing.  She admitted, it was a little more challenging than she first thought.  

Then she sent me the poem, "If this doesn't work, let me know... I will go back to the laundry room and try again." lol

I knew our Goddess had a great sense of humor!

laundry. by ~macro-art

 

When you read it you will see she did not need to do another load, I mean poem.  It is all I hoped for and more!  She included these products:  Joy, Bold, Gain, Cheer, Ivory, Tide and Fresh Start.

 

laundry clips in the snow by ~JAX-inthebox

To Be Bold Enough

I have placed myself
In four walls of mundane.
Boredom is all consuming
with regimented minutes
ticking away my life.

There is no joy in predictable
Spontaneous has become foreign.
I was once bold and creative,
now to change the routine
of when I wash my hair overwhelms.
I try and spin my life when
speaking to my friends
as being so busy I haven’t time
to meet them for dinner.
To what gain is that façade?
I know they must see through
my false cheer.

My life is an ivory palette
of bored neutrality.
This tide mediocre
has washed away
my enthusiasm
leaving me a dried spinster.

I need a fresh start.
But how does one create
life from dust?
I have spent too long
staring at the blank walls
inside of me.
Perhaps I am simply
an empty canvas waiting
for the right person
to pick up a brush.

©Susie Clevenger 2012

 

Laundry in the Sky by ~s-hime