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Best Laundry Poems

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Premium Member Dirty Laundry
(She's Got Cooties)

Bitter every night, she speaks of another man
In dialogues, she rips and shreds my brothers sheets
Her moves are naught more than an exposed...

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© Skat A   Create an image from this poem.
Categories: laundry, abuse, betrayal, devotion, heartbreak,
Form: Epic



This Laundry Never Ends
Oh laundry, how relentless you are in this house,
It’s as if I were a polygamist’s spouse.

By: Sabina Nicole...

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Categories: laundry, funny, life,
Form: Couplet
Laundry Day
Once a week we do the wash;
It’s part of our routine.
With just the two of us at home,
There’s not that much to clean.

Apartment living means,...

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Categories: laundry, home,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Real Men Wear Pink
I stand about five feet eight
I'll admit, I'm a tad overweight
Drive an old pick up truck
Not one to pass the buck
At the moment have a...

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Categories: laundry, character, funny, humor, perspective,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Voice In Hiding
Hiding here inside my closet, I feel safe in the dark
knowing on a pile of sheets lies my very psyche;
it's only a thought, yet I...

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Categories: laundry, absence, voice,
Form: Free verse



A Woman's Work Is Never Done
"A Woman's Work Is Never Done",
a phrase that's often heard.
There's a lot of truth that's hidden,
just in those few words.

She has to cook and clean...

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Categories: laundry, dedication, motherwork, work,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Phew What's That Smell
A smell permeates through the house
I’m convinced it must be house mouse

I hunt high and then I hunt low
But the source of the smell it...

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Categories: laundry, humorous,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Take Out the Landry
 Take Out the Landry

Dirty laundry for years on the floor
finally the dirt is out the door
Quebec is cleaning house
separatists being laid to graves
like Napoleonic...

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Categories: laundry, evil, funeral, hate, november,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member - a Tribute To the Washing Machine -
I received an email today :
"Would you like to join
The Underpants Club"
A new underwear
directly at your door
once a month
(for only 20 bucks)
Did you say once...

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Categories: laundry, angst, humorous,
Form: Light Verse
Empty Bedrooms
I walk past empty bedrooms that once held my boys
The beds made so perfect, the absence of noise
Books there on the book shelf and not...

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Categories: laundry, kid,
Form: Rhyme
Cleaning Solution
Sticky smears on the table top.
on the couch spilled soda pop
one chewed up shoe and one flip-flop
I’m doomed to clean this mess non-stop
  ...

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Categories: laundry, funny, life,
Form: Monorhyme
A Little House of Memories
It was a lovely little house.

Built of white painted timber,

with a gabled roof clad in green tin,

it had never been a rich person's house.

It was...

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© Red Omara  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: laundry, memory,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Displaced In Kathmandu
Our dinner, boiled to death root vegetables, we swallow in silence as night closes-in on the school. The co-opted Buddhist monastery housing us empties its...

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Categories: laundry, anxiety, fear, war, ,
Form: Haibun
Premium Member Marital Woes
For those of us who are married
We know how it often goes
Good days, bad ones and some
Common, annoying marital woes

I left a smidgen of toilet...

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Categories: laundry, funny, marriage,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Lending Both Hands
Let me 
lend a hand
I can’t sit
when you 
have to stand
When you 
can’t do it all
together we can

It’s not 
a woman thing
It’s more than
just gender...

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Categories: laundry, care, thank you,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Shattered Sighs