Mothballs Poems - Poems about Mothballs

...She’d kept the pewter dusted and displayed since 1969. A verdigris had leached out of the urn nevertheless. She had been hard on him, had forgiven little, but felt much closer now. The televis......Read the rest...

...No more Mothballs and cedar assault my nose The dust mites and stale air dry my throat A wardrobe that is just that The lion roars no more Neutered and robbed of his fire The l......Read the rest...

...In every nook and drawer, further than mothballs, your smells...our past. !......Read the rest...

...Powdered wig was musty Curls petrified and crusty Mothballs smell much better Especially in August weather. George put it on his head anyway Not wanting to disappoint his mother today Rode on......Read the rest...

...Oh, meaty mothballs! as opposed to mothy meatballs Alternatively - slobbering sloth-balls! instead of sloppy moth-calls Stupid refrigerator! as opposed to dumb incinerator A......Read the rest...

...Sing a hymn for Georgie Radford Who used to build ships on the Clyde Watch them launch down the slipway With a worker’s quiet pride. His last job was the giant carrier, The one they put in moth......Read the rest...

...Mesh Of my window screen In spring Licked from the inside by our inherited old lady She is made of bird bones White whiskers Wearing her oversized fur coat in the new heat Pulled from mothba......Read the rest...

...I barely know how you bear it, I said to the grapefruit Of course, true to form, she tried to smooth everything out. I was irked because no words arrived to sooth me. Which made her easier to eat,......Read the rest...

...The door to the bookstore creaks complaining Books for new and old customers a small bookstore since 1937 ......Read the rest...

...Old people look like raisins with hair Perfumed in mothballs and vaporub Ready for the prom which waits for them The mirror tells the elderly they are teens Sometimes the mirror lies I was once ......Read the rest...

...Crackling tension filled the community hall in Abergavenny ‘We are in this together dear folks for a pound or a penny’ Speaking of which the loos were situated right behind the bar To ensur......Read the rest...

...She’d kept the pewter dusted and displayed since 1959. A verdigris had leached out of the urn nevertheless She had been hard on him, had forgiven little, but felt much closer now. The television......Read the rest...

...What's in the closet Betty Davis old wired hanger in the upper left hand corner spiders web on the floor by the baseboard a mouse hole and on the closet shelf an folded up patch quilt ......Read the rest...

...When I was twelve my grandma told me I was a woman – and in six or eight years I would be a wife. She said Sundays would be pasta days, Fridays I’d cook fish – and to keep a net of mothballs in m......Read the rest...

...New Zealand's favourite bird is the Tui, also called parson bird for its ruffled white cravat - it is famously noted for various lyrical songs - consisting of soul tuning notes - intricate melodies......Read the rest...