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passing shadows
Member Empyrean

since 1999-08-26

Posts 45577
displaced

0 posted 2010-04-02 12:15 PM

Up at midnight doing laundry
after quite a long day
of cleaning carpets and building barns,
cooking all the chickens away.

Took Uncle to the store at dawn,
I'm sore down to the bone,
barely holding my eyes open now,
more work tomorrow is all that's known.

Gave the dogs a bath and planted roses,
walked 100 yards to check the mail,
mopped the floor and cooked some more,
started my tomatoes in a hanging pail.

The garden needs tilling, holes need filling,
grass needs mowing and I am willing
so I'll do the very best I can
at very least, I'll get a tan,
or drop dead trying to please my man.

Chalmette Guy
Senior Member

since 2009-03-11

Posts 1257
Louisiana

1 posted 2010-04-02 08:22 AM

at very least, I'll get a tan,
or drop dead trying to please my man.
But that's a fine way to go, don't you think? lol
On a serious note, we all need to take time to relax and enjoy life.

Misty Lilacs
Senior Member

since 2005-11-15

Posts 1060
White Birch Forest

2 posted 2010-04-02 09:51 AM

Good grief lady. Not sure you need to work so hard. Please take a break as no man is worth that much work.

ooxx Marti

"I am using this cane as a fashion statement. It's the newest trend in accessories."

LngJhnAg
Member Elite

since 1999-07-23

Posts 3508
Boot+Kitty=Poetry in motion

3 posted 2010-04-02 10:14 AM

{sniffles} We aren't, Marti????

Yanno, Dixie, if I knew you loved to work so hard, I woulda pursued you harder - lol

2islander2
Member Ascendant

since 2008-03-12

Posts 6825
by the sea

4 posted 2010-04-02 11:30 AM

Hello Dixie, your poem made me dizzy, you make such of works, it makes me think how lucky I am but I admire and offer you a sincere support for what you endure...

thanks for the vivid and awesome poem.

yann

Goldenrose
Member Elite

since 2003-05-30

Posts 3665

5 posted 2010-04-02 06:35 PM

Such a full day for Dixie and even after all that you STILL manage to write a great poem, well nothing changes there then does it?

Thank you....

Goldenrose.

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength,while loving someone deeply gives you courage. Lao Tzu 6th century BC.

Andrew Scott
Member Elite

since 1999-06-24

Posts 2558
Redlands,CA,USA

6 posted 2010-04-03 11:32 PM

I think I'll stick to teaching 4th graders.

"We'll chase them like rats across the tundra."

The Lady
Member Rara Avis

since 2005-12-26

Posts 7634
The Southwest

7 posted 2010-04-05 11:36 PM

you have made me weary Dixie
excellent poem!

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