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Best Housework Poems

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


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: housework, adventure, wife,
Form: Limerick



Valentine Shmalentine
Oh, no, he best not patronize me on Valentines.
If I must dramatize appreciation, I shall agonize.

Each year, he thinks chocolates will rationalize
spending his time guarding...

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Categories: housework, emotions, silly, valentines day,
Form: Rhyme
All Poets Are Unique
One day, I decided I will beat Tom and be the first one to congratulate Potd poet. I kept my eyes on Potd screen, refreshing...

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Categories: housework, appreciation,
Form: Imagism
Premium Member An Unappreciated Housewife
He walks into the room each day at six
As around their Dad all five children mix
     He smiles at them with...

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Categories: housework, funny, husband,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member Oh, Turn It Off

When Dad passed I moved home with Mom,
       We were roommates at first;
Shopping, lunching, gardening, it was fun,
There were...

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Categories: housework, death, mother daughter, sick,
Form: Verse



Premium Member The Interview - For Contest
This situation has no basis in reality; in fact, it is ludicrously unreal. However, the likes and dislikes shown of its author are completely true!

Scene:...

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Categories: housework, fantasy,
Form: Prose
Kids Love For Animals
Kids Love For Animals ( Poem )

Children’s favorite shows are of animals
I have hours in a playlist that are laughable
Like a camera pecking rooster and...

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Categories: housework, adventure, animal, children, cute
Form: Free verse
Premium Member So Late So Soon
Dr. Seuss: “How did it get to be so late so soon?”

I sat down to write, 
but no thoughts would come.
Still thinking and thinking,
I said,...

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Categories: housework, time,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member I'Ll Do Anything For Love
All things can tempt me from picking up my pen,
but the most demanding is housework and men!

I sit at my desk, I’m all geared up...

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Categories: housework, house, humorous, mother son,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Dear Santa
Dear Santa, will you make my dream come true?
Although a little costly it may be,
I still believe there’s nothing you can’t do.
So could you please...

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Categories: housework, christmas, dream,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Madcap Happiness
happiness, puppy-sweet, lapping at toes. the strumming of sea nymph shells. the laughter of intoxicated friends, slightly tipsy, imbibing in whites and reds, sharing spousal...

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Categories: housework, friendship, imagination,
Form: Haibun
Confessions of a Poetrysouper
Forgive me PS for I have sinned,
I’ve posted a poem I ought to have binned,
I have read many poems without leaving a word,
And wonder why...

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Categories: housework, forgiveness, on writing and
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member I Imagine
can you imagine yourself a young girl from Nighastan?
who is thirteen, and never stepped foot in regular school?
toiling day and night, taking care of siblings...

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Categories: housework, imagination, poverty, power,
Form: Free verse
For My Friend Trevor
A lovely morning’s knocking on the door
Come here, Trev, it’s time to make a wish
Your birthday’s dancing rumba on the floor
And for your dreams is...

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Categories: housework, friend,
Form: Rhyme
Woman's Hands
Simple hands   are   working hands
            Of women all across vast...

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Categories: housework, culture, women,
Form: Couplet

Book: Shattered Sighs