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Best Laundromat Poems

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The Laundromat
I enjoy watching
Clothes tumble in the dryer
At the laundromat;
It reminds me of sunset
And its swiftly changing hues....

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© Jim Wilson  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: laundromat, life
Form: Tanka



Premium Member Laundromat Madonna
She precisely folded
the baby clothes and being
a long time laundromat
habitual, I recognized the signs.
Obsession at the laundromat level
is usually the last attempt
at order in a...

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Categories: laundromat, introspection,
Form: Blank verse
Premium Member The Chronicles of a Phonophobic
**For Ruben O, My little Bro**

(This poem was written and a recording made for the contest sponsored by Team Poetrysoup which was deleted before it...

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Categories: laundromat, fear, life, people,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Town He Once Called Home
Like a beacon on a hill
The white church steeple gleaming still
For all the many years gone past
It marks the path for home at last

Up and...

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Categories: laundromat, childhood, home, nostalgia, tribute,
Form: Rhyme
So I Asked the Lad
so i asked the lad
he was at work with his mother
she manages a laundromat
where one may only need machines
but there is a service of clean...

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Categories: laundromat, devotion, endurance, love, remember,
Form: Free verse



The Kiss of Chaos
The kiss of chaos
chaotic kisses,
what a gaudy
goody 
this 
is.
Tiny increments
of change,
lick your lips
and rearrange,
molecules
and atoms
charged,
with a random love
at large.

met you in a laundromat
feeling old and...

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Categories: laundromat, passion, people,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Lost Sock
 There once was a sock
 That was left at the laundromat
 His owner forgot to take it back
 and for a while in the...

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© Joseph May  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: laundromat, lost,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Dragons Banana Bread
Banana Bread Yum!


Spring was in the air sooo thick that you could cut it with a knife!
As to the Laundromat I went with Dragon at...

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Categories: laundromat, crazy, fantasy, fun, funny,
Form: Light Verse
Laundry Day
I'm a mind raper
I'm a fine rapper
You'd better stay out of my way
Cause my nine's always strapped
Even on laundry day
Got my glock tucked in my...

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Categories: laundromat, allah,
Form: Italian Sonnet
It Won'T Be Dark Forever
Daylight dies
Blackout the sky
Does anyone care
Is anyone there 
Enjoy this life 
Pop open a Sprite 
Roll over to the right and kiss my wife 
She's...

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Categories: laundromat, cheer up, depression, desire,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Chance Meeting
It wasn't my choice to spend that Sunday

Washing clothes at the nearest Laundromat.

My washer could not be fixed 'til Monday

My dirty clothes just could not...

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Categories: laundromat, love, memory,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Meal, a Movie, and a Date
A date with my Hubby is an amazing and a most wondrous thing…
It starts with the McDonald’s Dollar menu and then we grab and run,...

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Categories: laundromat, fun, funny, happiness, happy,
Form: Light Verse
Maundy Thursday
Kirby's no Catholic, at least he doesn't believe 
the Pope's infallible. Infallibility's for me, 
the one he counts on for treats under the table 
when...

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© Nola Perez  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: laundromat, pets
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Dead Word Pile
The Dead Word Pile

My fault, sorry, the writing’s on the wall.
Awesome, pretty, don’t matter none at all.
The words just have to join the pile
Where all...

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Categories: laundromat, humor, words,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Fishing With Older Men
The silence, the almost endless joyful silence, 
That's what I remember most looking back, 
Silence and belonging, companionship, 
Not in Nature so much as part...

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Categories: laundromat, fishing,
Form: Blank verse

Book: Shattered Sighs