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Best Dishes Poems

Below are the all-time best Dishes poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of dishes poems written by PoetrySoup members


Premium Member In Praise of Washing Dishes
With hands immersed in suds and water warm,
I stand before the sink, humbled vassal,
To plates and dishes, grease and grime the norm,
My task to cleanse...

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Categories: dishes, encouraging, humanity, perspective, power,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Mismatched Dishes Beautiful
I was born an old soul and always a
    step out of time.  It seems old things just like me
and come...

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Categories: dishes, old,
Form: Verse
Washing the Dishes
As clean running water flows through dirty dishes   
Immense joy and peace bathe her tired being   
While veined deft hands scour...

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Categories: dishes, encouraging, feelings, home, inspiration,
Form: Pantoum



Premium Member Love, Betrayal and Dirty Dishes
Love, Betrayal and Dirty Dishes

I ate from your welcoming glitter plate
touches easing my restless soul.
Desperate, in love praying, not too late
never saw two eyes black...

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Categories: dishes, angst, betrayal, break up,
Form: Sonnet
Same Dirty Dishes
Here they are again—the same dirty dishes.
I wonder what’s the use.
Everyone leaves the work to me.
There’s really no excuse.
Sometimes I think it’s more than I...

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© James Tate  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: dishes, family,
Form: Free verse
Do Da Dishes Yo
inspired by some poem that's 100x better than this one l0l

water water everywhere
and all the dishes in the sink
standing in my underwear
unsure what to think

why...

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© Pang Xiong  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: dishes, parody, water, water,
Form: Free verse



Pot Pourri of National Dishes
Frogs’ legs 
French cuisine fad
Amphibians hopping mad

 Shish kebabs 
Cubed lamb chislic
Served on toothpick

 Pizzas 
Flatbread Italian feast
Waist measurement increased

 Bird’s nest soup 
Rare Chinese...

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Categories: dishes, culture, food,
Form: Couplet
Delicious Dishes
Tonight, tables took teapots
"Lumiere Lights" lit
Pleasantly, people pondered 
Plates placed
Across appetites awaiting anxiously
To try the Top Ten
Delicious Dishes...

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© Sara Zahed  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: dishes, angst, imagination, peace, social
Form: Alliteration
Dishes
The dishes pile up stained with the day to day of life
Her hands are chapped and dry withered from washing them
Dishes of food, dishes of...

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© Lisa Cole  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: dishes, angstday,
Form:
Not Doing the Dishes
Not Doing The Dishes

When you die you become less active
Can't play in traffic any more
Doing chores is so impossible
Forget about dating, bathing, taking out the...

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Categories: dishes, absence, adventure, death, education,
Form: Didactic
Breakfast Dishes
Every day we woke up hungry.
We ate our little bowls of freedom 
At the breakfast table.
Then Momma washed the breakfast dishes.

In the summer,
Momma grew maters...

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Categories: dishes, america, food, poverty,
Form: Light Verse
Dishes Pile Up Once More
I sort bubbling dishes in proper place
I drown absorbed sink with soapy water and towering dishes 
They pile up-- what's the point of doing them?

I...

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Categories: dishes, angst, childhood, family, inspirational,
Form: Haiku
If You Dont Wash the Dishes Are You a Communist
if you don´t wash
the dishes
are you a
communist?
no,no comrade
let me explain
they will wash
themselves
if you leave them
out in the rain...

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Categories: dishes, political,
Form: Free verse
Spouse Took Hiatus Washing Clothes and Dishes
(alternately titled: tongue in cheek humor
cuz the following hyperbole
from this pencil necked baby boomer
without intent to badmouth,
nor start unfounded rumor,
who chalks, i.e. attributes gobbledygook
to funny...

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Categories: dishes, 12th grade, adventure, crazy,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Broken Blue Dishes Stuck To the King
From high above and down below
Bewitching winds from Hades blow
That spread the river’s current thin
And drown with love unsinkable men;

Around they swirl and whisper lies
Of...

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Categories: dishes, daughter, lost love,
Form: Rhyme