Long Elbow grease Poems

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Overrun by stuffed subdued teddy bears

Overrun by stuffed subdued teddy bears...

of diverse and sundry sizes engaged 
in woebegone wild rumpus
as a last hoorah 
for diversity, equity and inclusion,
whose somber bowed heads
(hide their snickers
just a kiss away)
their backsides mimicked 
tufted heavenly...

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Categories: elbow grease, absence, adventure, america, angel, anger, divorce, judgement,
Form: Free verse


I Posit Picayune Propensities Prevail Among Pesky Management

I posit picayune propensities prevail among pesky management

Most favored renter status imposed on us
i.e. meaning myself;
(one tarnished prince of Highland Manor)
and the missus, his princess consort
who must abide by rigorous writ
of tidiness, whereby
every flat surface...

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Categories: elbow grease, abuse, america, angst, anxiety, blessing, community, fate,
Form: Rhyme

Cherry Tree Music Co-Op

Cherry Tree Music Co-op

alternately titled instant infatuation: 
a moment of spontaneous spunk
instantaneously transformed 
ordinarily shy guy into a quidnunc
courtesy powder milk biscuits
inside his mouth 
bitesize morsels did plunk
wafted courtesy pheromones 
found him punchdrunk
reclusive tendencies bubbled...

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Categories: elbow grease, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, adventure,
Form: Rhyme

Housekeeping Not a Strong Suit With the Missus

Housekeeping not a strong suit with the missus

(***warning ungapatchka language ahead***)
regarding following lines courtesy the missus,
who adventitiously, inadvertently, unknowingly
allowed, enabled and provided inspiration I
attest Frau Harris inspired me as she lies abed.

Flush with rage the...

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Categories: elbow grease, anger, anxiety, betrayal, divorce, feelings, humorous, wife,
Form: Free verse

Housekeeping Not a Strong Suit With the Missus

(***warning ungapatchka language ahead***)

Hence plead ding for 
Mary Poppins wannabe
with snap of her fingers 
can affect ship shape
tidiness, which task 
needed before May 2022 
when yearly inspection 
indeed takes place.

Flush with rage the spouse 
will...

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Categories: elbow grease, adventure, age, angel, anger, confidence, february, flying,
Form: Free verse


Housekeeping Not a Strong Suit With the Missus

Housekeeping not a strong suit with the missus

(***warning ungapatchka language ahead***)
regarding following lines courtesy the missus,
who adventitiously, inadvertently, unknowingly
allowed, enabled and provided inspiration I
attest Frau Harris inspired me as she lies abed.

Flush with rage the...

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Categories: elbow grease, abuse, adventure, anger, animal, clothes, goodbye, grave,
Form: Free verse

Cherry Tree Music Coop

Cherry Tree Music Co-op
(Saint Mary's Church -
3916 Locust Walk; City)
(Circa mid nineteen nineteen eighties
after the common lee
washed out tide dull era - CODA).

Naughty bits and pieces asper
     an uneventful memory came...

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Categories: elbow grease, 8th grade, adventure, animal, courage, desire, introspection,
Form: Narrative

Forever doomed to reside at 2 Highland Manor Drive

Forever doomed to reside at 2 Highland Manor Drive

A worse fate than death being hull hive,
I just realized after a surprise inspection
our opportunity to relocate cursed
after yours truly and the missus
subjected to vitriolic wrath
(okay hyperbole...

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Categories: elbow grease, anger, angst, community, discrimination, fate, fear, grave,
Form: Free verse
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For Thomas

I'm walking out into the gorgeous summer day
and I feel nothing at all;
not the warmth of the sun,
the melodies of songbirds,
nor the cars driving by my street
who haven't the slightest clue of what just transpired
a...

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Categories: elbow grease, death of a friend, loss, soldier, sorrow,
Form: Ode

Woe Is Me To the Dvlc Driving Vehicle Licence Centre

Woe is me to the DLV by Gypsy View previous topic View next topic Go down  
 

Location :  Marton, New Zealand

 



Oh DVLC you have upset me, you are so unkind

You’ve committed...

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Categories: elbow grease, humorous,
Form: Rhyme

Housekeeping Not a Strong Suit With the Missus

(***warning ungapatchka language ahead***)

Flush with rage the spouse will become allied
if reference made how she buzzfeeds disorder
altercation especially likely if divorce blurted
making me wish to experience (immediately)
bartered bride, when mine pointed finger doth
nonverbally chide markedly...

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Categories: elbow grease, adventure, environment, humorous, husband, hyperbole, surreal, wife,
Form: Free verse
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If Ever I Had a Country: Lxxviii

IF EVER I HAD A COUNTRY: LXXVIII

            for Suzanne DELANEY, in appreciation

(Prelude: CAN THE WRONG MAN BE RIGHT ? ABSOLUTELY ! 
If only he...

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: elbow grease, america, anti bullying, betrayal, international, patriotic, political,
Form: Dramatic Monologue

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...

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Categories: elbow grease, adventure, anniversary, appreciation, devotion, humorous, marriage, western,
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...

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Categories: elbow grease, adventure, anniversary, appreciation, devotion, humorous, marriage, western,
Form: Free verse
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Desperadas

Sometimes some lost and lonely housewife I know well and knew put glossy
lip stick on and subtle pastel shade mascara plucked his brows and shaved
the pits of desperation the dust and grime the secretive desire...

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Categories: elbow grease, change, prejudice,
Form: Free verse

Commendable Inspection Outcome June 13th, 2023

Commendable inspection outcome June 13th, 2023

Schwenksville scribe set himself task
re: expresses glad tiding
forthwith for public views
in consonant with figurative
elbow grease did use
yielded nothing but rave reviews
as attested courtesy
eager disbelievers waiting in long queues
could hardly contain...

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Categories: elbow grease, 6th grade, adventure, angel, appreciation, beautiful, celebration,
Form: Rhyme

App-Ology

There was a man who did a deed,
though not of hate, or even greed
'twas innocent, or so he thought
'til everyone was overwrought

They crossed their arms 
and stomped their feet,
one sent out an angry tweet
another just...

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Categories: elbow grease, humor,
Form: Rhyme

Futile Effort To Plunger the Clogged Kitchen Sink

Futile effort to plunger the clogged kitchen sink...
courtesy malfunctioning garbage disposal

which won't be removed
by onsite maintenance man
UNTIL/UNLESS 
fruit fly excreta wiped off
(impossible to access)
areas along bathroom and kitchen walls
so communicated "the warden."

Thus we (yours truly...

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Categories: elbow grease, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 9th
Form: Free verse

American Idle

The lazy consciences
of the long yawn, credulity class
work so hard
to be an American Idle

“Care less” is their toga motto

You gotta have Roman candle aspiration
Pleb effigy be the 
burning goal of a finger-twiddling nation

Fiddle sticks 
always...

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Categories: elbow grease, allegory, metaphor, philosophy, work,
Form: Epic

Ah Freshly Washed and Dried Clothes

alt tear knitted title – 
how I i.e. Cinder Fella spent 
   thee better part of January 4th 2018

hey yo' Donald, one suggestion 
   to make America great again, 
 ...

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Categories: elbow grease, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, beautiful,
Form: Light Verse

The Old 5y Ranch (Muling Drugs) Part 1

Most old ranches in the West, have a history of their past
Legends and tales about ranching in hard time
Blood, sweat, tears and a lot of elbow grease
The at the 5Y, those days are long past
The...

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© Danny Nunn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: elbow grease, cowboy-westernme, day, me, drug,
Form: I do not know?

Paint the Picture

As I paint the picture of your bright revealing piece of art
i begin with the dark areas then make space for the
light
my poetry is a big love story that never ends in which 
has its...

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© Mel S  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: elbow grease, art, imagination, romance, uplifting, visionarywork, work,
Form: Free verse

Los Angeles Elbow Grease

In this ever-changing world of entertainment any day 
An artist could accomplish what he once thought 
Was an impossible feat with a little elbow grease 
And dedication you may gain a reputation 
For being remarkable...

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© John Conde  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: elbow grease, dark, evil, passion, spoken word, truth, wisdom,
Form: Rhyme

Scouring Self-Loathing

Evict me from this grimy house
My son asked me what self-loathing is
His home still occupied with laughter
I was taken aback by his cleanliness
I told him it gathers like dust over time 
Sweep my house free...

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Categories: elbow grease, bible, depression, home, house, innocence, metaphor, moving
Form: Free verse
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Whats Happened To Jordan

But Jesus called the children to him and said, “Let the little children
come to me, and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of God
belongs to such as these.”
—Luke 18:16 NIV

WHAT’S HAPPENED TO JORDAN

What’s happened...

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Categories: elbow grease, children, christian,
Form: Rhyme
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