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Laundress Poems - Poems about Laundress


O Women, the Mothers and Sisters
...O Women, the mothers and sisters, That the world can treat you like this! You were heroes from the start When you left your father's house Aiming to build your own nest. This you'd do in a forei......

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Categories: laundress, abuse, freedom, gender, god,
Form: Ode
What Will It Be, How Will It Be
...beauty salon gossip, or presidential debate ... Laundress conversation, or trump x joe ? Will It be : Socialism where "scarcity of everything" or liberal Chevrolet fish tail? Which team are y......

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Categories: laundress, allusion, anger, anti bullying,
Form: Prose Poetry



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...My mother filled so many roles, In helping seven meet their goals. She reared us by her fine-tuned tools Of simple but unbending rules. She was teacher, preacher, censor, Most of all a love disp......

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Categories: laundress, mother,
Form: Rhyme
Death of a Cat
...the season I turned eleven was the season that I died there'd been blood betrayal and famine and I thought I had survived my neighbor killed my kitten and for that I could not cry my mother w......

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Categories: laundress, childhood, life, loss, people,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Reflection on the Important Things