
before you get undressed.
Less is not always more,
more is sometimes best.
In your tailored attire,
adorned with a Guccie tie,
covering a physique so fine.
Sigh
Your collar getting tight?
Don’t change a thing,
Dearest Darling.
I could stare all night.
Before you loosen that tie
and pop those buttons,
I have an idea…
I hope you’re willing to try.
Roll up those sleeves
and slip those digits
into the wet sudsy sink
and scrub those pots.
Show them whose boss!
Be gentle with my mugs.
Do handle with care.
From heavenly hands
they are made-
my only pair.
Dishes now glistening
with your special touch.
To that laundry basket,
I’ll watch you strut,
then bend over.
In form fitting slacks
picking up
towels and socks–
a form so fine,
I don’t care how
you fold and tuck.
Do take your time.
I can’t believe
what I am seeing.
Man, I must be dreaming.
Some good clean(ing) humor for your day! 😂
Hope you are having a happy and healthy week. 💗 Michele
Photo: WR, Pexels
© 2021 Michele Lee Sefton.
This is so cute! If only this dream could occasionally be a reality.
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Thank you. 😁 Yes, so cute. 😉 True, it does help to have a vivid imagination. ✨
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Wow my dear Doll. That’s an amazingly awesome Poem dreaming a man who’s turning into reality often 🙂😇💖
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Thanks, dear Suma. 😊 Dreams do sometimes become reality. 💖
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Poor lad. Modern slavery 😂
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Lucky lad! Lucky Lady too! 💕
hahaha Free (buttoned-up) spirit. Slave to love, perhaps. 😂 It’s good to get hands a little dirty sometimes, or in this case clean. 😆
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My my my… and this is your husband? If so does he know? If not does he know? 😆
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Cleverly worded questions that made me laugh. Thanks for that. I can’t answer for any hes, only me. This is a fantasy poem that I had fun imagining and writing. 😁
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It made me laugh so it’s got to be good 😂
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Ha ha. Yes you’re dreaming Michele! Although some of us guys are willing. 😀🧍
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Cleaning and dreaming! 😆 I had fun writing my dreamy poem, but yes, of course men do housework too. 👏🏻 And I saw a unicorn this morning! 😂 Too much fun, I better get some work done. Thank you! 😄
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LOL. A unicorn, fantasy man, and pot of gold at the end of the rainbow! 🌈✨🧞
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😂 Low expectations. haha!
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Girl Michele, now that’s one sexy daydreaming scene. In reality, that would still be a sexy daydreaming scene! LOL 🤣😆😂 I love it! ❤
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Yes and absolutely yes! 😂 😂 Thank you! 💗
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You go girl! 😎 My pleasure!
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Oh no! Too funny!
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Thank you, made me laugh! 😆
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🙂
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Hahahaha. That was fantastically fun, Michele. Awesomeness. 🤗❤
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😂 I am happy to bring some hahahas! The imaginary tale made me smile. Pun intended. 😆 Oh, happy tears in my eyes! 🤗 💗
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Yes! Thank you for that, Michele. 🤣 Fantastic. Hahahahah. Love the pun, my friend. Awesome. ❤️🤗
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🙏🏻😁💗
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Omg this is so absolutely fun😂😂 and beautifully done✨✨✨✨✨✨
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I am glad you had fun! I had fun imagining the scene. 🥰 Thank you.
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😄😍
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I hope he was gentle with your mugs……
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😂 He appears to have gentle hands. Let’s assume the mugs in the suds were handled with care.
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😂😂😜 Thanks for making me laugh, dear Michele ~ I enjoyed reading your poem and hoped to share this brief response…
Provocative and productive
With a sense of humor intact
Doing dishes and the laundry
For sharing we time – that’s a pact.
I posted my poem and linked to yours as reference – hope that’s OK. If not, I can unlink. Have a pleasant evening, my friend 🌞
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You are welcome. Thank you for joining the laughs. The middle of the week feels like a time for needed laughs. Love your response!
I don’t mind the link. Thanks and you too! 🌞😁
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Cool breeze, my friend 🌞😁
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Just looked at your response. Love the sink photo. Funny stuff. Thank you.
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Phew. That’s some spin-cycle, Michele! x
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Yes! Deluxe model. It spins, fluffs, and folds! 🤪
Funny! Thanks, Nick. x
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Good One.
Visuals and images beautifully juxtaposed so you might as well think of it as a dream
But I think the Covid Lockdown has changed many a leopard’s spots
Take my own case: for the first 62/63 years of my life i had dream life
only son in a Hindu family, doted son, loved husband, andfortunately upper middle class so had always maids and servants all around
Come Lockdown and no maids, at 63 years of age I first learnt to sweep and swab the house
and then graduated to cleaning utensils and dishes to help the wife
Fortunately, now the maids are back and I have happily lapsed back into my charmed existence
Life is a great teacher
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Thank you and thank you for sharing part of your story. Covid certainly has disrupted many lives and yes, it has changed us. How, varies from person to person. It’s never too late to learn how to sweep! 😆 Be well and enjoy your life.
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Thanks Michele
As a career HR person, having worked for 40 years with people, I cannot agree more with you that it is never too late to change and learn new things
In some ways I thank the pandemic for showing us a very different side of ourselves, as well as those around us
Stay well, keep writing and inspiring us
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So true. Thank you, I will. Take care.
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Wow! It’s awesome, Michele. So cute and sweet! Great work.
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Thanks, KK. Glad you enjoyed my fun poem. He did do great work! In my dreams! 😂
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Haha.. I loved this poem, Michele! A dreamy cleaner😂😍. Stay blessed 🙏💫🤗❤️
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Thank you, Diana. Glad you like the dreamy cleaner! 😁 Be well. 😊
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This is hilarious! Roll up those sleeves. YES, LOL
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😁 Yes!! 😂
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I enjoyed this ! Very cute and funny and lovely all at once!
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I am so glad! I certainly had fun writing it. 😁 Thank you.
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Ha ha… nothing like a fine man dressed to the nines!
I had to smile with the cleaning end of things.
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Yes, not too shabby! 😉 I smiled too, imagining the cleaning and the end… 😂 I am having too much with this one!
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Fun indeed! :>)
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I am torn between laughing hysterically and connecting more deeply with the underlying idea of beauty in this piece, Michele! ❣️
In the end I must do both and carefully balance the meaning of a man against the patient side of me. 🙌🏻
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The man in the photograph is handsome and writing the poem made me laugh. I hope you were able to laugh with me. I do recognize the gender bias and implications with this piece. Of course men do housework too and I am sure there are women who do not. It was just for fun, however, the inspiration for the poem came from reading many romantic poems, during my 21 months of blogging, with women receiving most of the attention, whether that be through photographs and/or as the attractive person/object in the poem. Does that make sense? Those were my original thoughts, that led me to a dishwashing suit-wearing man. Writing can take us on unexpected journeys. Thank you. You know I always appreciate our exchanges. 🙏🏻
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It makes perfect sense, Michele, as I am one who greatly appreciates not only discovering the greying areas of common ‘pictures’ but also what other people perceive and reveal about the sidelines. 🙂
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Pictures inspire stories, sometimes different from what we had originally pictured. 😉
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Reblogged this on The Reluctant Poet.
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Thank you! Have a wonderful week!
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lmao love it! (p.s. i’ll do everything but wash windows 😉)
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😁 I don’t blame you, windows are grueling! 😓
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This is lovely and cute one… liked it..
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Thank you, Ashish. I sure had fun writing it! 😉 😁
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Now that’s a dreamy man to keep if he washes pots and pans. I’d sit on a stool and sip my coffee just looking at him in a suit.
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Absolutely! Yes!! That’s a pleasing thought. 🥰 😁
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Teehee 😹 cute
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Yeah, he is. 😁 I did have fun dreaming and writing that one. 😊
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