Prompted by Poet's Place Cafe

Chore Time / Seasons Repeat

Chore Time

Mopping, scrubbing the kitchen floor
mopping the sticky spills
mopping everyday user ills
Mopping, scrubbing my least favorite chore.
                              ~~jvg

Any excuse to stop mopping. This little ditty popped in my head swirling around the thought that I haven't written a poem using anaphora yet. So stopped scrubbing the floor and I came here and typed it. Then I remembered the changing seasons should be the theme so I have to back track but you could say, for me mopping is seasonal. I have it on my chore list once a week but sometimes I don't get around to doing a thorough job, just a little quick swipe but today was a deep scrub.

That silly poem led to this silly poem.

Seasons Repeat

Winter chores
         outside chairs inside
Winter clothes
         warm and fuzzy
Winter woes
         flues and colds
Winter floors
         tracked with mud

Spring chores
         open doors
Spring clothes
         cottons and rain coat
Spring woes
         weeds to pull
Spring floors
         freshly polished

Summer chores
         clean the pool
Summer clothes
         shorts and sandals
Summer woes
         sunburn and insect bites
Summer floors
         sand to be swept

Autumn chores
         rake the leaves
Autumn clothes
         sweaters and wools
Autumn woes
         summer is gone
Autumn floors
         here we go again
                   ~~jvg

Well we can't be Maya Angelou everyday. I'll go back to mopping now.

Notes: ▼

2 poems Poem One 4 lines; Poem two 32 lines
anaphora  with seasonal theme
"Tools of the trade: Anaphora"