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Best Cleaning Poems

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Cleaning Out Your Room
This morning
I sifted through years of memories
that ran like sand
through my hands.
A few pieces remained behind;
carefully
I put them away.

Afterwards
I sat for a long time
and listened...

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Categories: cleaning, goodbye, loss,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member A Poem For My Algebra Teacher
I know I promised
 no more ‘Make you Cry Poems’
I said I'd never write another 
‘Wipe your eye poem’

 And for three years 
I tried...

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Categories: cleaning, 6th grade, abuse, betrayal,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Small Bouquet of My Word Groupings
you were an infant
i would sing a song i created for you

'there's a baby in my arms
there's a baby in the mirror
but honey 
there's not...

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Categories: cleaning, appreciation, celebration, childhood, daughter,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Desperate Housewife - In Limerick Form
A desperate housewife I knew
had such mundane housework to do.
Being so tired of it,
she decided to quit.
Then off to Las Vegas she flew.

Having always been...

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Categories: cleaning, adventure, wife,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member Gathering Wool
Cleaning out one of your drawers,
I remove your beautiful woven sweaters
     one    by    one
 ...

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Categories: cleaning, lost love,
Form: Free verse



A Tribute To a Major Appliance
Sub-titled: What’s in YOUR Fridge?

Please allow me to introduce myself:
My name is Ms. Fridge A. Daire
I stand tall among my lesser cohorts
and MOST of them...

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Categories: cleaning, funny, humorous, relationship,
Form: Personification
Premium Member In the Chill of An Open Door
Cleaning out my refrigerator, an ice cube slides to the floor
startling the cat, and interrupting a locomotive of thought
that often tracks me down in a...

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Categories: cleaning, angst, caregiving, death, father,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Voice of God
Why are you so sad ?, Have you lost anything ??
If lost, then what ??? I think it is nothing.....
You stepped earth with your empty...

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Categories: cleaning, god, mythology,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Never Out of Season - a Short Story
I was wiping the dust off an old snow globe in the upstairs attic, when a mop of honey-blonde hair suddenly appeared through the wooden...

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Categories: cleaning, august, bereavement, blue, christmas,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Dare We Beat Evil With Truth and a Heavy Sledge
Dare We Beat Evil With Truth And A Heavy Sledge

Fresh rain pounded out cleaning again our Mother earth
above squirrels chattering for all they are worth
what...

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Categories: cleaning, deep, devotion, god, heaven,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Mental Hospital Bills
dadgum doctors, heads up their butts
poking, prodding, pricking skin
neurologist a psychopath
gets pleasure as electric volts pass through my body

family doctor showed little concern
made me paranoid...

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Categories: cleaning, education, sad, slam, me,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Window Cleaner
Window cleaning is my trade and I want to tell my story
Like the time I saw the Vicars wife in the bath in all her...

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Categories: cleaning, funeral, funny, humor, nursery
Form: Rhyme
The Dog, the Pig and the Cat - Repost
I thought I’d repost this because of the state of the world today and because 
it might help someone see things a little differently or...

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Categories: cleaning, friendship,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Cinderella - The rest of the story
Cinderella thought she had found her Prince Charming,
but arriving at the palace was a bit alarming.
Cinderella found it rather absurd,
how each room had women from...

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Categories: cleaning, women,
Form: Rhyme
Elder Abuse
He sits quietly in the corner of the room
and dabs his face removing the blood that
still gently trickles down his cheek. Flinching 
from the pain...

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Categories: cleaning, abuse, confusion, heartbreak, old,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs