Long Cleaning lady Poems

I remember my cherished Wolf Cub pack, 
How I loved those Wednesday evenings, 
The games, the pomp and seriousness of the camps, 
The different coloured scarves, sweaters and hair 
During the mass meetings, 
The solemnity...

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Can You P an AI Robot Off – Bot meets feisty lady
 
The great AI debate video – A humorous parody on AI and AI Robots versus humans. 
Watch to the end for the final...

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The quest for eternity (Jeff Bezos)

He awoke under the bed; it had been his birthday 
and had drunk champagne and eaten Danish pastry
He stretched, feeling stiff, walked to the kitchen, opened 
the fridge took out...

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Jack Ellison wasn't from Nantucket
I read prose that his cleaning lady had a nice bucket
But he vowed to look in silence quite as a mouse
For fear of sleeping in the perpetual doghouse

PD, appears and disappears...

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any superstitious peasants 
out there tonight
TV junkies gossipy groupies
smooth talking saxophonists
am I talking too fast
for couple's therapy
uh oh here comes
another scar on my head
the optimist would say
the scar of opportunity
fortunately digression is an art
that never...

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Hounds from Hell take their toll on your soul
as you walk the mainstreet of mainstream
and watch Saturn and Neptune dance to a simple tone
of silence in the outer space.
As you sit in the middle of...

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But I am Retired

By Elton Camp

From far too many old men that I know,
If wife wants help, this is how it will go
Because they have been put on the dole
Virtual inactivity had become the goal

Even...

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Married Too Young

By Elton Camp

Butch and Meg were sixteen when they met
Raging hormones on a disastrous course set
Meg told her parents, “He’s the man for me.”
At a frown she added, “A better I’ll never see.”

Butch...

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Where do you work, what is your career?
Well, I'm glad you asked, I have many titles it would appear.

I'm proud of these titles, non of which require a degree.
One of my favorite titles is mom...

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Me







ACCEPTANCE SPEECH


I would like to thank all my readers and fans for supporting me and making this award I received so meaningful. I would like to thank PoetySoup and the poetic academy for all their...

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Please Officer, Mr. Clean is not like that,
though will admit that we had a little spat.
I used Pine Sol, and he wasn’t really happy,
but assure you that it never made him slappy.
Little Joy was there...

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Hello!
Yes, I got your number from my sister.
She got it from the bulletin board at the “Stop, Shop and Save-a-lot”
I’m calling about the ad for “cleaning lady needed”
     I have a...

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Lonesomeness

At the news agent’s a woman in her forties spoke to me, said she had 
lived in Algarve for two years, from Romania, used to be a doctor, but 
here she could only get a...

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I find that as the years roll by,
the little things give me a high.
A phone call from my sweet granddaughter,
will keep me smiling for hours after.

My cleaning lady came today,
dusted and scrubbed all dirt away.
With...

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The king of a snowy country 

the king sat on his throne in his underwear
his wife, the queen, was ironing his uniform.
The ambassador of Mongolia was arriving today
presenting his credential a word that made 
the...

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I glance at my favorite ring. 
The one I wear every day now.
The large pear shaped blue topaz is gone.
The opal band looks bereft without it.

I think of all the groceries I have sacked in...

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Tuesday afternoon in November. 


Well this is, the ending of another day I’m looking out
 of the window the road is clean and tidy after rain.
The sun is coming out of hiding and strews golden...

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The woman who comes and clean the house
once a week, has a voice like a foghorn, she speaks with
a Gypsy accent I have to guess what she says,
anyway she ignores me when I say: no...

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the writer

Now let us try this again to write a document
With one letter marching nicely in front of the other
Like adding instead of using numbers to give the written
words prettiness, even if the theme is...

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Winner takes all

 He sat on the sofa feeling disgruntled, watching TV
about a young woman who read a poem about hill climbing.
I have climbed many hills, he said to himself, 
but there was always a...

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Erin was our young cleaning lady
Came in to clean our abode
Welcomed dear Erin in every fortnight  
For her regular cleaning episode

Sweet Erin confessed her love for me
More love than her real Poppa
That was really...

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A sweet young thing comes to our humble abode
Once every month without fail
Sure ain't your average cleaner type person
She zooms through the place like a gale

A neighbour once noticed she had a cute li'l bum
I...

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Aunt Elsa’s Maid

By Elton Camp

Aunt Elsa always had a thing to tell
Each visit she picked up a silver bell
“To call my maid, this is what I use.
She comes and does what I choose.”

But, somehow the...

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The Workaholic

By Elton Camp

To Sam his job is his principal delight
He seldom sees his house except at night

And so long at his office Sam does stay
That his kids are usually tucked away

His wife doesn’t hurry...

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Every month he cuts and styles your hair
   She delivers your paper in darkness when you are not there

He mows your lawn and trims the grass' edges
   She plants your flowers...

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