<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=419234" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Ironing</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I like the smell of ironing<br>It makes me think of home, <br>Of when I was a youngster<br>Long before I'd writ' a poem.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">That sense of real security<br>Remembered as a dream, <br>Embedded in mum's ironing-board<br>And floating in the steam.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The swishing, easy movement<br>Was always just the same, <br>It lulled me to the edge of sleep<br>While whispering my name.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The pile of clothes was endless<br>It must have been a chore<br>To have us kids supplying it, <br>Not one or two, but FOUR.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">There is no smell like ironing<br>The scent is all it's own, <br>I liked it when I was a child, <br>I like it now I've grown.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And when the time for ironing<br>The clothes again does come, <br>I'll take in that unique perfume<br>And think again of mum.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Written Feb 1995</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=John+Carter+Brown">John Carter Brown</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=419234" data-title="Ironing de John Carter Brown" data-description="I like the smell of ironing It makes me think of home, Of when I was a youngster Long before I'd writ' a poem. That sense of real security Remembered as a dream, Embedded in mum's ironing-board And floating in the steam. The swishing, easy mov..."></div> </div> </div>

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