Short Scrubbing Poems

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Premium Member Too Sweet Boy

little socks crumble in corner — scrubbing smelly feet tout suite

12/31/2018

tout suite (too sweet) — right now
Form: Monoku


The Cleaning Lady's Short Rant

I loathe sifting the vile cat litter and scrubbing the damn tile
Now if you’ll excuse me I think I’ll shriek and shout for just awhile!!!
Form: Couplet

Washing and Scrubbing

Washing and Scrubbing

Plate washing and tile scrubbing I detest among house chores,
Though boring, I still want them to shine like silver ores.
Form: Couplet

Premium Member Soapy Sabotage

sufficiently scrubbing
simple soap
strips stealthy virus’s
slick, lipid skin—
surfactants sending 
sabotaged virus
slip sliding sewer bound!
© Mark Toney  Create an image from this poem.

Feet

His feet were crusty and cracked
Almost like the hair on his back
He tried scrubbing those dawgs
That look like bull frogs
So, he claims them as artifacts
© Daisy Ward  Create an image from this poem.
fun
Form: Limerick


Scrubbed

Lying on a truthful table;
  Clinging like three-day-old food 
To pots, 
Still scrubbing,
Oh, still scrubbing
Off debris --
You are to me,
  A lie wrapped up in honesty.
Form: Lyric

Premium Member Clean Later

streaks across the kitchen
food smears on the floor
mama is a ’n
her scrubbing knees are sore

clean later says grandma
advice from beyond her core
your children grow up quickly
leaving home forevermore

Premium Member Bright Unknown

Each stanza is a 5-7-5 Haiku

You don’t know me
Not really. You just might see
someone smiling bright

You might hear a laugh
skipping off my dark surface
inside I am rough

I am scrubbing on
interior surfaces in a
measured tyranny
Form: Senryu

Bound

My bed bound me 
too  a horrible world 
Gone are all sweet dreams 
and what lingers must ide
All washed up
Symbols formulating realities 
An infinite struggle 
scrubbing words on huge walls 
history sick 
Lost in hidden kingdoms 
I turn away 
left to doped up soggy misery 
Never to see an endpoint

Premium Member Shining

The luring into
the larva pose,
like raking leaves
and scrubbing scum off tapestries,
we work for the shine.
Let your better half fold itself
and roll over onto the turgid glaze.
Breathe fully, quietly in these days
and patient your perseverance.
The season remains the stronghold
to all God-willing fates.

Victorial Island

With her garment glittering as gold
Skyscrapers scrubbing and scrapping the sky
Fleets of steels moving into her spine
In her womb, is the abode for the affluence
Echoes of stubborn bar beach
Hallowing the expatriates
Across my nose are the moving ship
In my eyes are bustling buses
there i screamed,
Victoria, Victoria an island in Lagos
Form:

Premium Member I Clean with Distaste

scrubbing a floor
a repetitive chore
dusting a table
I do as I’m able

vacuuming
a boring thing
highly paid worker
housekeeper, no shirker

many of us despise cleaning
cluttered houses are where we’re leaning
washing dishes
rounded swishes

I clean with distaste
do each job in haste
repetition a bore
I have done it before
me

These Halls

I walked these halls in my prime
Now I'm scrubbing them for a dime
I had high hopes and big dreams
Until I came apart at the seams
Lifes strange the way it makes people change
I feel like it's pushed my dreams out of range
I experienced love and friendships in between these walls
Now only the memory of them calls
As I walk these halls

Philosophy of a Housewife

The furniture needs a dusting
The floors mopped and swept
The bathroom needs a scrubbing
The evening  meal to prep

Dirty dishes line the counter
The laundry's in a heap
Pet hair on the cushions
The windowpanes are streaked

In such disarray, I'm overwhelmed
I really should get hopping
But, tomorrow IS another day
I think I'll just go shopping!
Form: Quatrain

Premium Member Working Our Butts Off

Precisely why are we here today
  working out butts off for so little pay
When will we have universal basic income
  For that, let's get out there and bang the drum

Work can be tedious, deadly, demeaning
  especially when it's arduous scrubbing and cleaning
They say that 'Hard work's never hurt anyone'
  What if we find out ~ They're totally wrong!
Form: Couplet

Premium Member River Life

RIVER LIFE

Scene of bent over backs, knee deep, scrubbing – washboards in hand.
Students in sharp uniforms, stone polished, follow the curves
of the river bank, care for the small - so they don’t fall in.
Small village boats throw their nets, catching tourists, tender smiles.
Lazy children – splashing, dangling fishing lines, cooling skin.

11/15/2016
Form: Verse

Truffles

The chocolate mixes with the cream
Waiting for it to fill all of me
I pause, in hesitation,
for i know i am not clean
He ask if i am sure,
I say yes,fore i know
the good scrubbing I am
in for

The smell  is astounding
My heart is pounding
My self self esteem is drowning
I know i am worth more

but i cannot resist being your
truffle butter whore

SMCRP
Form: Epic

Shower

I stand in the shower scrubbing off sin, 
but these tainted stains won't leave my skin. 
The harder I scrub the more that it spreads, 
the only thing changing is my skin turning red. 
Soap cannot cleanse the impurity of souls. 
I turn the knob hotter, but it only gets cold. 
I dry off after about an hour, 
but I've never felt... so unclean after taking a shower.
Form:

Premium Member A Sea Above An Ocean Below

A sea above an ocean below,
endless expansion until they merge;
Lightning bolts braided from tip to toe
blown energy to the sky will surge;
Ripples seize as rolling clouds emerge
infiltrating minds with blurred lines;
Scrubbing tidal waves with star signs 
will free the power of a meteor;
Cosmic show hits the Earth and shines,
too fleeting for an artist to capture.
Form: Dizain

Premium Member Good Enough

Lead point scratching 
Pink eraser scrubbing, 
Ticking time catching 
My eyes, I'm rubbing 

Inspiration sparing
Rhyme and word fighting, 
White lines staring
Thumb and finger writing 

Yellow #2 shrinking 
Lines ever darkening, 
My eyelids blinking 
My mind harkening 

Hours ever zooming 
Crumpled paper piling, 
Good enough is looming
I find myself smiling.
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Sweet tarts Rondine

Circling the drain my world’s changing,
trying to salvage the best parts.
Naiveté and those soft hearts,
they slide down disintegrating. 
The hardest fist is now banging,
this is how sour becomes sweet tarts.
Circling the drain,
a potent aroma’s stinging.
Dingy is how all the growth starts,
everything’s fresh after cleaning.
With focus you’re harshly scrubbing,
circling the drain.
Form: Other

New Dawn

Flashes in my heart
Memories surging like a tidal wave
Reminiscing the way we were
Trying to re-live the past
Wanting you in my arms
Missing your lips against mine

Flashes in my heart
My rage surges like a battle cry
Recanting my love for you
Trying to erase the memory of you
Scrubbing the memory of you off my flesh
Missing who I used to be
Standing tall once again
Walking into a new dawn.
© Skyy Allen  Create an image from this poem.

Denim

It took some time, but
eventually the denim
(after much scrubbing)
of my workaday soul
cleaned-up as if stone washed.

Valuable lessons
were tucked into new pockets,
the clucking hens
of a nagging conscience
were at last silenced.

I’m spinning myself dry today,
hanging up my smoking guns.

Her face still riddles me through,
but I patch up just fine,
and know now how to zip her
out of my mind.

Collectors

collectors 
dropping footprints 
in idle sand, eyes wide 
fingers hanging empty 

delicate shells, bits of 
sea-glass, heart-shaped 
rocks, the foundation of 
'I love you.' 

an intake of breath, crouching 
toes buried digging through 
dirt and then 
scrubbing the prize 
clean, nestling it with a smile 
inside her pocket 

or illusion, 
her eyes dull, her hands 
slack her conscience 
waiting.

Janitors

People rush and hustle,
Mopping with gloved hands, tools of steel,
Wiping away blood and sweat from the floor,
Scrubbing the metal, blades, and hooks,
Sponges damp like the weight of sacrifice.
The work ends with a final cut,
Leaving the factory restored,
But the air thick with the scent of iron,
Machines hum like the march of the willing,
Tanks rise like the flag of duty,
Until the stench of labor fades.

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