Donning rubber gloves, the wife does washing of clothes and dishes
Donning rubber gloves, the wife does washing of clothes and dishes...
(plus cutlery, pots pans, et cetera) in the kitchenette sink.
She started what would immediately become
a first and last generation tradition
(the spouse as washer woman
and scullery maid)
soon after we moved here
eight years ago come July 1st, 2025.
I trumpet her pioneer spirit
to apply elbow grease
(to tackle
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Categories:
gloves, adventure, anniversary, appreciation, devotion,
Form: Free verse
Donning rubber gloves, the wife does washing of clothes and dishes
Donning rubber gloves, the wife does washing of clothes and dishes...
(plus cutlery, pots pans, et cetera) in the kitchenette sink.
She started what would immediately become
a first and last generation tradition
(the spouse as washer woman
and scullery maid)
soon after we moved here
eight years ago come July 1st, 2025.
I trumpet her pioneer spirit
to apply elbow grease
(to tackle
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
gloves, adventure, anniversary, appreciation, devotion,
Form: Free verse
Hand Gloves
Hand Gloves
The winter fatty hand gloves are
helpless to
stop inhaling the
bits of
fluff and
my pills my
doctor gave me on
the
bedroom carpet.
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Categories:
gloves, humor,
Form: Free verse
A warm pair of gloves
They do their job well
protect your hands from danger
keep hands warm at night
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Categories:
gloves, work,
Form: Senryu
No Gloves Trimeric
I’m busy now spring cleaning my heart,
the temperate season has broken;
Ready to melt the past’s bleak blizzard,
let my soul be a fancied flower;
The temperate season has broken,
dry eyes rejuvenated by storms;
A touch or teardrop can restore faith;
Ready to melt the past’s bleak blizzard,
throw out the heavy clothing buffer;
I’ve no gloves, now will you hold my
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Categories:
gloves, emotions, feelings, spring,
Form: Other
Pink Champagne and Satin Opera Gloves
As wild as unbridled seas,
soft as mist, a spindrift tease.
Night stars swoon and fall from skies;
constellations fill her eyes.
Every leaf stirs in her wake,
bottom to top, mountains quake.
Beaux like grapes bunch on her vine,
blood in veins she turns to wine.
Kisses sipped, her cherry lips.
Saké nip, rock ‘n roll hips;
tongue-and-groove
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Categories:
gloves, beauty, celebration, desire, joy,
Form: Couplet
Razors In Their Gloves
"Razors in their Gloves"
Keep thy enemies close
befriend the smiling banshees
holding their cowboy guns
such beings in love with love
all’s fair in love and war
dripping honeyed lines
for greenants to walk along
truth be known they’ll be
back in the ring
before too long
kissing windy cheeks
shaking hands
with razors in their gloves
(LadyLabyrinth / 2023)
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Categories:
gloves, life, muse, satire,
Form: Narrative
Kid Gloves
Of what use are gloves to a newly-born child
Whose fingers just long to break free
Or sonnets by Shakespeare to infants at school
Just starting to learn ABC?
And why give a castaway banished for life
A casket of jewels and gold
Or offer an ice-cream to folk on the street
Who've spent the night out in the cold?
For all things
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Categories:
gloves, change, life,
Form: Rhyme
What Use Is Gloves To the Fingers
Oh my as my
fingers cry.
It frosty and cold
Why?
I need gloves
What's that you say?
The foot to the hand.
Well it like socks
to the foot.
Gloves keep your
One two three
four five fingers warm.
Gloves come in all colors and sizes.
I think I understand
says the foot
to the hand.
We both have
jobs to do.
Protect even scarfs
around the neck.
Gloves
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Categories:
gloves, clothes,
Form: Rhyme
The Protectors
gloves are bodyguards
that guard the skin against scratch ~
like shield against itch
January 16, 2023
Of What Use Are Gloves To Fingers That Only Understand Mittens Poetry Contest
Sponsored by: John Lawless
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Categories:
gloves, wisdom,
Form: Haiku
Gloves and Mittens
GLOVES and MITTENS
Boxers love mittens
to hit always, not seldom
as paws of kitten .
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Categories:
gloves, 8th grade,
Form: Tanka
On Gloves and Mittens
Gloves keep one's fingers and hands clean and hazard-free,
Mittens do the same too; both are good; all agree;
The difference looks petty betwixt these; great, yet,
One is more flexible; the other is more set...!
Those used gloves might not like mittens this is a truth.
And vice versa is those who used mittens in youth,
Those in gloves use
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Categories:
gloves, allegory, analogy,
Form: Rhyme
A Boy With Gloves
The child’s mother hands him a pair of gloves
and helps him to insert his fingers.
Grimacing, he misses mittens!
Pulling off the gloves, he puts
each hand in a pocket.
Fingers move warmly
together – snug
and glad now.
The boy
smiles.
Jan. 5, 2023
Of What Use Are Gloves To Fingers That Only Understand Mittens Poetry Contest
Sponsor: John Lawless
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Categories:
gloves, boy,
Form: Etheree
When I Threw the Unhandy Gloves Away
When I threw the wee unhandy gloves away,
The smiling little cold hands watched the display,
And the clock struck ‘high five’ and chimed ‘hooray’
Putting gloves on small hands can cause much dismay,
No more small fingers to get stuck or go astray,
When I threw the wee unhandy gloves away
Mitts slide gracefully upon small hands
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Categories:
gloves, humor,
Form: Villanelle
Mittens Vs Gloves
I love my pretty colored mittens, as soft as new kittens.
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Categories:
gloves, color, cool, fun, grandmother,
Form: Rhyme
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