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Dishwashing Poems

Dishwashing

...Dishwashing

I only participate in 
dishwashing after dinner so as to 
not share the benefit and 
pleasure of 
drinking the 
dirty dishwater.
...

Categories: dishwashing, humor,
Form: Free verse

Spouse Cannot Forget Mine Suppressed Flatulence Upon Our First Date

...Spouse cannot forget mine suppressed flatulence upon our first date

While yours truly sat here 
at the desk housing MacBook Pro,
pondering his next idée fixe apropos
for gamut of anonymous read...

Categories: dishwashing, 2nd grade, 3rd grade,
Form: Rhyme

After Dinner

...After Dinner
David J Walker

I can still hear the clanking of
Silverware and ceramic dishes after dinner 

As the sink filled with hot water 
Clearing, washing, and drying 

The suds of Ivor...

Categories: dishwashing, remember,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

Mum Loves War

...The hophead at the
Music festival next to me
Yells out the instruction
"Everybody shrink!"

The lead singer holds parallel
To the audience an elongated
Truncheon with a dishwashing
Glove on t...

Categories: dishwashing, humor, humorous,
Form: Free verse

Warm House With Homemade Chili

...I smell chili powder, onions simmering
Salivate over chocolate brownies that are too hot to frost
Wild neon paintings liven up this room; my own works of art.
I hear my husband’s TV set, it is lou...

Categories: dishwashing, food, home,
Form: Free verse

A Search For Shangri-La

...Uninspired, 'tis a search for Shangri-La,
It's much ado, I mean, don't you think so,
All of this bruhaha, just fools would go,
To this La La Land, --no 'tis other La.

Well, i...

Categories: dishwashing, allusion, fantasy, happy, heaven,
Form: Enclosed Rhyme

Chalk-Ware Brain

...My mother had a friend who had chalk-ware decorations in her kitchen. She had inherited them
From her grandmother, maybe even her great-grandmother. They were from the forties.
A chalk-ware peach, ...

Categories: dishwashing, hilarious,
Form: Free verse

Raging At the Machine

...
Aaarrhhh!
You say it's not working again, dear
Curse that piece of metal junk,
it only works on Monday, Wednesday and Friday
Part-time dishwashing machine ...
and half of the time ...

Categories: dishwashing, anger, humor, humorous, marriage,
Form: Light Verse

Dishwashing Limerick

...Oh for the assistance of machinery
As my wife and I suffer so bitterly
From wet soapy hands
That slip on plates and pans
Which occasionally crack most disagreeably...

Categories: dishwashing, humorous,
Form: Limerick

Six Blue Jays

...Six blue jays converge at the birch
To sing their anomalous colloquial song,
They fashion a serene scene as they perch;
My mind so inclined to blindly sing along.

As I ponder their ways, in my ...

Categories: dishwashing, bird, dark, environment, evil,
Form: Narrative

Twelfth Day of Christmas

...On the twelfth day of Christmas
My true love (hubby) sent to me
12 baskets of laundry
Eleven dishwashing liquids
Ten laundry soaps
Nine vacuum cleaners
Ten frying pans
Nine oven toaste...

Categories: dishwashing, christmas,
Form: Free verse

Washing Up

...The meal was over
And with apprehension
I took my plate to the kitchen
Where I looked at the devastation
Caused by its preparation.

Who could guess
That a cook could make such a mess.
Pots and pans ...

Categories: dishwashing, work,
Form: Verse

Passionate Phrases

...“Ooh, don’t stop”, she says to me when massaging her feet at night;
“Ooh, don’t stop”, she whines when flipping channels and a game comes into sight;
“Ooh, don’t stop”, she orders when pushing the ...

Categories: dishwashing, funny, husband, wifeme, me,
Form: Rhyme