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Best Dry Cleaning Poems

Below are the all-time best Dry Cleaning poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of dry cleaning poems written by PoetrySoup members


Premium Member Green Sleeves - Bawdy Limerick Edited
Val’s daughter was picking her nose
Then wiping snot on Val’s new clothes
When Val finds sticky mess
Of green slime on her dress
The distress in her quickly...

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Categories: dry cleaning, clothes, humorous, mother daughter,
Form: Limerick



Premium Member Dapper Drac
Dapper Drac had a panic attack, and topping off the dread
His trendy boots clashed with his suit, plus his white shirt was stained red

Sure his...

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Categories: dry cleaning, funny, horror,
Form: Iambic Pentameter
Premium Member Haiku Journal
Quayside bazaar
Odd artifacts;
Trinkets to go

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Poignant tune
Old memories flood;
Trip to yesterday

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Airport arrival
Homecoming route;
Mid-afternoon buzz

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Laundry lady
Dry cleaning job;
Helpful hints

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Sleepy hangover
My mother's voice;
Dreamy interlude

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Old giant rubber tree
Huge monolith;
Treasured...

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Categories: dry cleaning, change,
Form: Haiku
Black Days of History
(10/25/12)

The black days of history that many do not know
And many refuse to accept - of how the black man
Helped AMERICA to be the greatest...

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© Louis Rams  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: dry cleaning, black african american, family,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Death Came a Knocking While I Was Out
Death came a knocking while I was out
He did not have time for me to be about
Up at five before the sun
Picking up what I...

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Categories: dry cleaning, cat, dog, funny, home,
Form: Rhyme



Guys Who Work In the Zoo
GUYS WHO WORK IN THE ZOO

Laryngitis specialist for the giraffe 
A dozen  lozenges for her calf
 
Dental assistant doing fillings 
Or bridgework for baby...

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Categories: dry cleaning,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Zip Codes of Mortal Bliss
Action begins and the scene is occupied by two living trays
succumbing to powerful activities much against dry cleaning services.
Nature once again proves its wonders
as water...

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Categories: dry cleaning, romance, romantic, sensual, sexy,
Form: Romanticism
Premium Member Timeless
 

"Tears, grief, memories and tributes of respect. "

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Categories: dry cleaning, music, tribute,
Form: Bio
Mentor and Tormentor
a skinny, dreamy-eyed boy in a suburban Jesuit school 
showed up in your English class...to learn a bit of class.

you taught me Milton, introduced me...

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Categories: dry cleaning, angst, education, people, sad,
Form: Free verse
Hats Off To Cats
Hats of to cats,
They have no trouble smelling rats,
All they can eat for free,
Always someone to pay the vet fee,
Sleep anytime, anywhere,
Never working in the...

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Categories: dry cleaning, analogy, cat, change, character,
Form: Light Verse
Poolside Vision
I was walking through Woodruff Park
again today, although it felt a little
bit more like swimming; I had to backstroke
my way through viscous Summer air. 
As...

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Categories: dry cleaning, environment, life,
Form: Free verse
Directions of Folding
Directions of Folding
I saw a horrible accident
Ocean blue papered Holiday dry cleaning
Bundled tight

Not her place to cross
Not between the lines
Ignored directions

She flew
High
Confetti tossed skyward
Red, green,...

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Categories: dry cleaning, death,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Don't Come To My Funeral
Don't come, do not come
Do not come to my funeral
Do not come to my burial
Stay home in a quiet room
To read my God-given poems
Be inspired...

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Categories: dry cleaning, betrayal, funeral, goodbye, grave,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Shattered Sighs