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Dishwater Poems - Poems about Dishwater

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

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Categories: dishwater, humor,
Form: Free verse
Dishwater Soup
..."dishwater soup" before the soap take the scraps from the plate place in a pot fill with water and bring to a boil for tomorrow's leftover meal......

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Categories: dishwater, color,
Form: Free verse



Zen Death Haiku Xi
...ZEN DEATH HAIKU XI These are my modern English translations of Japanese Zen Death Haiku. Above the garden the camellia tree blossoms whitely... —Uejima Onitsura, loose translation by Michae......

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Categories: dishwater, age, analogy, angst, animal,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member From the Kitchen Window
...The burst soapsuds dissipate. Six doves outside my window Enjoy their meal, congregate. Wings whirr, head to the gingko Baby phoebes see surroundings. With wide mouths expose taste......

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Categories: dishwater, introspection,
Form: Other
Beauty and the Beast Or Two Ways To Notice
...He adored her. His blubbery lips drooled at the sight of his love. Her beauty seared his mind a fiery arousal beat upon the slopes of his low, low brow. He was quite the beast of a man - a g......

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Categories: dishwater, poetry,
Form: Free verse



Pewter Moons
...Dishwater creeks are iron rails in the cold light. The sky is thick with the muted warnings of exhausted banshees. Harken little sparrows for bells in toll booths peel in their empty boxes. Th......

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Categories: dishwater, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Waiting For You
...Waiting for you Is listening to the tap dripping Into a sink full of cold dishwater Waiting for you Is watching a cockroach Cautiously poking its feelers Out from under the fridge Waiting ......

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Categories: dishwater, metaphor,
Form: Blank verse
Premium Member Into Darkness She Had So Sadly and Swiftly Fallen
...Into Darkness She Had So Sadly And Swiftly Fallen ( A Very Sad Tale With No Fairytale Ending ) There in the dark cold room, emptiness and sorrow Hung like a noose awaiting its next dying soul L......

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Categories: dishwater, dark, death, drug, evil,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Of Byron, Keats and Shelley, a Few Words
...From my Blog: Of Byron, Keats And Shelley, A Few Words (1.) Of Byron And A Visit I Once Had Alas! Youth and its joy away has flown I wake at the break of day with a groan the smooth mirro......

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Categories: dishwater, appreciation, art, inspirational, meaningful,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Holiday Brunch
...Cracker Barrel — always a favorite. Not my first choice today, but we go where the grandkids go. Warming my hands with coffee cup ...waiting...tap, tap...for the follow up. I wonder if the w......

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Categories: dishwater, family, food,
Form: Free verse
Introducing, New - Diet Dr Dishwater: a Manifesto For a New Kind of Nihilist
...What's the point of Dr. Dishwater? Well, what's the point of anything? The only thing that appears to have a concrete purpose is my car key - And I haven't been able to afford a car in year......

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Categories: dishwater, angst, dark, hilarious, parody,
Form: Free verse
Dishwater Dull
...She meekly chased after nonexistent moonbeams in rose fashioned pipe dreamt illusions, as visual stimuli to rock her existence of inky stark impressions, inciting some exe......

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Categories: dishwater, analogy, angst, conflict, hyperbole,
Form: Imagism
Dear Miss Dishwater
...Just for you,I stayed away from a guys' night- out of cool poker; even prevented myself from having the pleasure of beer on the couch. But while my hands poured detergent, ten times over, all I ......

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Categories: dishwater, moving on,
Form: Light Verse
Modern Cinderella
...Imprisoned by clammy apron strings She squats amidst domestic disorder Dirty dishes, smelly household linens Blackened pots and foamy dishwater. Hastily, she conjures breakfast on the table While vi......

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Categories: dishwater, introspection,
Form: Iambic Pentameter
Blueprint (Freewrite)
...From knee high they told me to be patient, wait it out Build foundation, straighten out, never rush creation. "You gotta stay strong through the drought, because rain'll come one day and that se......

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Categories: dishwater, introspection, life, son, song-lyricme,
Form: Rhyme

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