Chores Poems

I hate chores

Taking hours to clean a pile of dishes
Sweeping up crumbs I didn’t even drop
I hate chores
Pushing a vacuum over and over
Forcing sheets to fit a bed
I hate chores
Wiping a toilet until it glistens
Struggling to carry a heavy mop bucket around
I hate chores
Waking up in the morning
Inhaling and exhaling every second of the day
I hate chores.
Socializing

My Muse Is Under the Credenza

I want to write a poem today
but the wood insists on ritual—
Pledge and patience, lemon oil,
a soft cloth circling
what must be remembered. 

The coffee table’s judging me.
The hutch has turned authoritarian.
Even the banister
is giving me splintery side-eye,
and the bureau just rolled its drawers.

My muse, naturally,
has curled up in the dust bunny
beneath the credenza,
refusing to come

Laundry Day

You seem a bit too Monday for someone who used to sway with much colour
Wake, my dear, the day awaits,
And with it comes white shirts the colour of mud
and black jeans the colour of white shirts
for you to wring and squeeze and wring
– it’s a Saturday

Pick your shoulders up from the floor,
square them to the

Zombies And Chores

If they were zombies.
Who have no brains so they don’t care about what I’ve turned into…
Maybe they’d be more likely, 
To come back for me. 
I’m not saying they don’t care. 
They just have to do the dishes that I forgot about. 
And vacuum the floor, sorry I never did that either. 
They are my

Acid Washed

acid washed blue jeans
hang on the rusty clothesline 
in the morning sun  

In search of the new

With each passing day, a thought engulfs me--
As to what remained of yesterday would become.
Apparently the curtain moves, even with the morn.
The sun burns, selfless in resolve to better the earth
The buzz heard in silence all around to deliberate life.
Here I am, up and about doing chores, routine work.
The seclusion from daily disdain, practical thought
Prepares

Sibling House Chores

Do you really care?
Sort out the black from white dress
So we live in peace.

Avoiding Chores for Poetry

Avoiding Chores for Poetry

Mom’s folding laundry as muse pinches me
sheets flapping with ink scolding
I get beat from both sides

unlined bedding is blessed
the future shakes out Mom’s frown
turns it upside down when she reads my best

strike while the iron is hot and frame it
give it to Mom in present
‘fore she passes away

covered with a clean sheet
no

Atipical Woman reckless eyeballing

In the Movie
" lausia Seek Who Ah"

a Damesel in distress and her lover
are in a cave tied to the wall
with gold chaiins.
The woman loosenes herself
from the chains and stands
 before her lover. Before they
could speak a Dark Bearded top hat
wearing man in a black cape
and tight pants appeared.
The woman began saying
"leave him be: you fouled

Chores

Todays chores become tomorrow's responsibility

Why the Husband Stays In the Garage

Just before the couple’s wedding day
a young man told me about his plan
How he and his wife would be equal
no difference between the woman or the man

All the chores like cooking and the cleaning
would be shared equally by each one
That way neither would have the burden
and working side by side would be fun

But after that

Angst of Chores

fast…work is done…slow
quickly…cleaning…sluggishly
a.m. & p.m.
the angst anchored in stalling
then accomplishing it all

We'Ll Do It Next Weekend

Got to fix the car’s flat tire
the grass needs to be cut
All the gutters need to be cleaned
and fix the gate that won’t stay shut

Winterize the doors and windows
wash the grime from the car
Clean off the garage shelves
just to find where all the tools are

Pull the weeds out of the garden
test the water in the

Yesterday and Forever

When I think about the LORD and
His having a plan for my life,*
I rejoice that He cares so much-
His everlasting love so rife

When a young girl on the farm
Life was hard but it was charmed
As children there were no stresses
Lots of joy with little guesses

We could come and go at will
Over the valleys, through the

Food Place Chores

Food Place Chores 
By Maui Sanders

Grating cheese
Is the relationship
Between mother and daughter

Oh dear!

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