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Dishwashers Poems

Nearby Ghetto

...
i wish i didn’t* but
i have to get across town
so off i go taking the bus
that drives through a nasty ghetto
 
i’m shocked as i look out the window
to see several dismal characters
i can’t i...

Categories: dishwashers, life, poverty,
Form: Free verse

The Immigrant

...Will ultimately acquire a resentful attitude. 
Adrift, things will be sought all through the house. 
The travel guide and short visas to Crouse 
My passport, birth certificate, and moo...

Categories: dishwashers, angst, anxiety, bereavement, introspection,
Form: Enclosed Rhyme

We Are the Poets

...We are dishwashers and bill payers, we have day jobs and night jobs.
Some of us are retired, I am not, because I know too many 
who died after they did that.
They lost their purpose, and before th...

Categories: dishwashers, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

Discomforted By Integrity

...I wonder how many parents of students
suffer from studying and teaching white nationalism
against tides of multiculturing change.

And I wonder what our school boards
and state departments of bo...

Categories: dishwashers, child abuse, health, love,
Form: Political Verse

The Refrigerator Boogies

...I was dancing and prancing 
And singing whooped Dee Dee
Not realizing I was not alone
Until he opened his shirt to me

He threw out the mayo, some jam and some jelly, a real hoot.
I caught the ...

Categories: dishwashers, 4th grade, 5th grade,
Form: Personification

Watching With the Watchers

...A chorus of the hungry
Father, we are here, singing choruses
To a crowd of witnesses 
A scattering of utterances among crows 
Muttering things 
About this and that
Unknown quantities of baloney...

Categories: dishwashers, analogy, food, life, power,
Form: I do not know?

Water, Water

...Water     /     Water
              New Hamburg, Ontario         Rubkuai village, South Sudan


                                   locals rise          locals starve 
  ...

Categories: dishwashers, africa, sympathy,
Form: Free verse

The Dishwasher - a Tribute To a Major Appliance Poetry Contest

...I really love the dishwasher
And so does Mum and Dad!
We filled it after every meal,
Until one day I heard a squeal!
Water had poured all over the floor
But hadn’t made it under the door!
Until...

Categories: dishwashers, appreciation,
Form: Rhyme

**** Retentive Meets Slob

...I'm as un-**** retentive as one can be
My wife's at the other end of the dial
Makes for interesting discussions at times
They sometimes last quite a while

Opposites attract, they say it's tr...

Categories: dishwashers, marriage,
Form: Quatrain

Experienced Only

...Warehouse workers are needed right away.
Dishwashers are wanted in the kitchen today.
They need laborers who are in a transition.
Openings exist for many a position.

They need someone new to fry chi...

Categories: dishwashers, business, people,
Form: Rhyme

Ode To Occupy Wall Street

...The middle class here can't be saved
When 0.001% act so depraved
Their wealth without end
These royals* still pretend
Did not come from us—their 
enslaved**


*The Royals: CEOs, Banksters, Revolving ...

Categories: dishwashers, happiness, life, peace,
Form: Limerick

Who Are These People Pt 3

...who are these people?
where did they come from?
they seem so primitive.
so, incapable.
primitive humans without a foundation of language I feel were smarter and more able 
then these people.
th...

Categories: dishwashers, business, imagination, inspirational, life,
Form: I do not know?

Work of An Appliance

...Never once gave thought
How appliances make life easy,
We have all become lazy
For they do the work for you and me.

How would we keep food
If there's no fridgeadaire,
Buy grocery's as we eat ...

Categories: dishwashers, funny, life,
Form: Rhyme