Best Stove Poems

I’m smooth and sleek with cute curves
I always manage to attract your attention
You can’t wait to get your hands on me ...
Know all the right buttons to press
I can feel my temperature rising
Sometimes I can get so steamy
You can hear me hiss with excitement
At times...

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Oh My Gosh! What’s the matter with you?
You could be squatting outside over a fire! 
So you have to clean me once in awhile…big deal!
I slave for you with never a thank you.
Turn a knob and I heat your fancy pans..
I simmer, I boil, I...

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Puffy words never made the bird bigger...

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STOVE is my easle.
Cookware are my tools to reach
Creativity....

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My favorite appliance is not my own
or even located inside of my home.
No matter where on this earth I rove,
I gladly returned to my Mother’s stove.
My family lived all over the world
so her stove's colors are memory swirl,
but they all had one trait in common...

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One Enduring Stove
A tribute to a major appliance

I am tough, hard working, good looking, and blend well with my neighbors.
I come in various colors with different compartments and choices in sizes
I am not perfect, because like everything else, I’m not made to last forever. ...

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With her wicks she’s not weak,
Her voice soothes me with great pleasure,
Her hands keep me warm when I’m sick,
Cooking nice food is a treasure,
Spores of bacteria are rendered passive,
As the black pot is inflamed and heated,
I’m strongly attracted to this lovely eve,
As her necklace and...

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S autee
T urkey
O ver
V eggies
E asy



Copyright McCuen 2009...

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Pinhead sized raindrops fall in numbers, attempting to imitate fog

Green needled giants with red bark stand at attention and point at the sky

The odd deciduous turns yellow as though in fear of the impending cold

They are dwarfed by valley walls which are sealed above by...

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Mama said, “Don’t Touch the Stove”

Mama said, “Don’t touch the stove.
You can’t cook
your way on an old stove.
Touch what you like, but not the stove
It will burn.

Love's withdrawal’s not pretty.
painful like a burn that keeps hurting
long after the initial injury.
You didn't know it was that...

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my broken stove
by americus

My girl, she's a broken stove, but she can give me children above
My girl is too hot, she sits and simmers until she rots
My girl she's too high, she sits there staring at me in the sky
My girl is too fast, i...

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Behind the stove the cricket  sang on a stage,
One song after another in the unbroken line.
Like for a mammoths, who lived in the ice Age,
Such for a cricket, longs a winter time.

A cricket voice so soft and  pretty bland, 
When a  snow...

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Love is parading around on the stove tonight
Cooking beanie weanies for the likes of me.
The smell makes me smile.
And he makes me giddy.
For fifty-five years I have been in love with this fifteen-year-old boy.

He is grinning like a sailor who just fell off the back...

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*** Scat, Cat! ***

No!  Cat, don’t paw
That yarn ball
I use to crochet.  Go!
Scat, cat!  You won’t like so
    much 	my scolding you more at all.

Stop!  Scat!  Don’t sit
    on the stove
To warm your legs...

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He's staring at me
From the bricks of the wood stove
With beady black eyes

I read defiance
I move and he scurries off
I cannot catch him

Brown little bugger
Scratching around late at night
Invading our home

Keeping me awake
How do I get my hands on you?
Our cat's too lazy!

Perhaps a nice...

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