Short Cleaners Poems

when you don't want a
date, tell the person you have
pressing engagements....

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monkey wrinkle nose
twitches curls it hairy lips ~
pick clean itchy fleas


11/9/2020

Any NEW Nature Inspired Haiku Poetry Contest.
Sponsored by: Tania Kitchin...

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The Clinic  
 A faint echo
Of a scream
He had been
Absorbed by
The routine 
Of the hospital 
White coated 
Doctors
 Nurses in white
Uniforms
And cleaners in blue...

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Taxis used poop power in days of old
Street cleaners had to mop up the road
A stinky job oh yes
Really quite a mess
Hope they were paid by the stinky load...

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Taxis used to poop in the days of old
Street cleaners would have to mop up the road
A stinky job oh yes
Whatta a mess I guess
Hope they were paid by the stinky load...

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The cleaners are closed
The barber shop too
Pandemic madness
For many, quite a few.

Hairdressers slam shut
You cannot buy wood glue
Schools not open
Because of the dhrammed flu....

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Few of us, excluding window cleaners,
And tight rope walkers,
Are not afraid of heights,
Yet we are all walking the tightrope,
That is life,
With greed on one side,
And need on the other side....

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We use strong detergent 
To remove adamant strain 
And make cloths look like new 
But soft tears we shed 
To clean the dirt 
Accumulated for long 
Inside our heart 
To look forward fresh with a new view ....

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The blood spills 
And cleaners do their work
And lick it up 
For the cleaners they hunger 
For us all, 
So watch your step 
And don't disturb
For your blood is really theirs 
Don't give them a reason 
To take it back....

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college boulevard
college hamburgers
college dry cleaners
college day care center
college café
college laundromat.
I have a feeling we are close to the college I say.
My husband has no idea, watching the road like he is....

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In a Bangkok dry cleaners window, “Drop your trousers here”
But they get lots of curious people with nothing to clean I fear
Takes all kinds it seems
Making up the world's scene
But this takes the cake or maybe I just misheared...

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In a Bangkok dry cleaners window, “Drop your trousers here”
But they get lots of curious people with nothing to clean I fear
Takes all kinds it seems
Making up the world's scene
But this takes the cake or maybe I just misheard ...

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In a Bangkok dry cleaners window, “Drop your trousers here”
But they get lots of curious people with nothing to clean I fear
Takes all kinds it seems
Making up the world's scene
But this takes the cake or maybe I just mishearded...

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dine out 'pon good food
salad soup entre' dessert
chocolate molten cake

getting dressed for date
all my pants shrunk at cleaners
lie down to zip up  

Sponsor: Michael J. Falotico
Contest: "What Makes You Smile, What Makes You Frown"...

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( Retrieved from an advertisement
                                   "Cleaners for Christmas" )


               Cleaner can not perform inside cleaning - due security reasons








07/11/2019
Sun :) - A-L Andresen :)
Copyright © All Rights Reserved
17 syllables...

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Haiku 

Beautiful horses
But it is the modest mule 
That carries our load

Tidy office building
Busy and efficient place 
Kept clean by janitors
 
Our great cities
Without armies of cleaners  
Uninhabitable 

Galloping filly 
Bets are on black beauty 
The jenny won...

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Many men fallen, 
Carcass, the vultures calling
Survival twisted
 
Even in blizzards
Spot the circling buzzards spy;
Carrion cleaners
 
Birds of prey, pray swoop
Deceased unaware souls lost
Carried on the winds.
 
 
Tribute to Leon Stacey's " Casualties of War "...

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Worry and pain
Wind and rain
Masks and cleaners
A porch with boxes
Movies about dreamers
Still a natural anti-depressant
Above the juicer in the cabinet
Yes wine summons but more for the heart
Dark chocolate beckons
Powders, cookies and bars
And those luscious sprinkles from the stars...

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Tanka

Roses like soft rain
Deluge kills them brutally 
Fallen pale petals 
Drowning in a pool of regrets 
As rain makes furrows in soil 

 

Senryu
Floor cleaners are
Floor managers, wear logos
But pay is lousy. 

Senryu
A man from Timor
Selling flowers to lovers  
Lives on rejections...

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During a party on the train, 
I spilled a drink and got a stain. 
Furthermore, I have my doubt 
that the cleaners will get the stain out. 
This suit was my Sunday best. 
It was better than all the rest. 
Now after that little spill, 
I may have to donate it to Goodwill.

Inspired by another member's poem....

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Head to bars,
Yet I am too poor to drink,
But cruising is dead,
Because we are too respectable now,
Save for me and a few old men,
Who rather than their wives,
Do face the clean white porcelain,
And in their minds create,
Handsome young things,
Till once again we are disturbed by cleaners,
Who wash away us filth....

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George Jefferson 
Was his mother’s son
He bought a cleaners; got rich
Settled in the east side, found his niche


Florence Johnson 
Didn't hail from Wisconsin 
Was a no-nonsense taking maid
Sometimes her chores were delayed 







* Comedy Tv Show: The Jeffersons

09/28/2021
Contest: Clerihew 2
Sponsor: Joseph May...

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knock away
scrape away
take my brain apart
leave the gears
and metal bits
for a brand-new start.
why waste time?
cram your rules
of steel and cold.

room with a falling ceiling 
don't crash on my head
or I’ll end up dead
down 
on the floor 
when the cleaners shut the door
and ill sink into the tiles
repeating dust til sore....

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        I've been Taken
	Written: by Tom Wright
	1/27/03
	
	I’ve been taken for coffee,
	also, taken for a ride.
	I've been taken for dinner,
	and I've had taken, my pride.
	
	I've been taken to the cleaners,
	taken there left ego slanted.
	The two places I refuse to be taken,
	is for a fool or for granted.
...

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They found my neighbor today
sitting in his chair, seeping
into the fabric. The smell-
rancid fat, a tallowy 
rind of meat. 

The cleaners take days.
Boy George warbles
through the walls. 
Buckets sloshed
and carted to the halls.

No one collects his things.
No one cries.
A ten word
obituary:

Mr. Campbell died
and all anyone noticed
was the 
smell....

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