imagination
When I was little, I lived in Alberta, in a house built by my father and mother. At the back of the house was a veranda. Below the veranda was a big vegetable garden, full of corn and pumpkins and mint. At the end of the garden, was a power pole, used by my mother as a clothes pole.
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my mom and I in the garden … the clothes pole is in the far left of the photo, at the end of the garden
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On laundry day, my mother hung the wet clothing on a line stretching between the house and the pole. As she hung the laundry, I would play at the end of the garden, under my mother’s watchful eye.
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But I was not where she supposed me to be. Instead, I was off on some imaginary adventure. One place I would go — into the cave beneath the rocks around the base of the clothes pole. In my imagination, the cave led to a tunnel, running under the garden and weaving between roots of pumpkin and mint. I don’t remember what I ‘saw’ in the world I entered or any of the adventures I must have had. Imagination can take you anywhere!
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laundry day
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mint splashes, fresh
against the wall
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her mother pins
clothes to the line
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shirts dance towards
pole at the end
of the garden,
a pole covered
in pumpkin vine
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where a small girl
skips, turns her chin
towards blue sky
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where rainbow begins
and ends,
on the green hill,
entry to cave,
hidden from sun
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and the girl skips
slower, slower
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follows tunnel
under garden
between tendrils
of ripe pumpkin
and root of mint
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and above earth,
her mother pins
clothes to the line
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All my best,
Jane
nichepoetryandprose 
I love this!
It is a wonderful story and poem, and your drawing makes me happy.
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melissabluefineart
October 14, 2018 at 10:21 am
Thanks Melissa. I like drawing like this. Quick and full of movement. My need for control means I don’t draw like this often!
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jane tims
October 15, 2018 at 6:35 pm
Yes! I’m the same way.
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melissabluefineart
October 16, 2018 at 10:51 am
I could smell the clean clothes and the pungent earth… and you know that’s quite a feat for me. Magical …
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ppost2015
September 14, 2018 at 1:30 pm
Thanks Pat. Smell?? No sense of smell …
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jane tims
September 16, 2018 at 6:31 pm