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Need Your Help With a Poem

18 years ago

I have decided to give all my coworkers a nice boughten dish scrubber as a little gift at Christmas. I need a little poem I can attach to the handle. When someone has time, would you tweek this poem or do a new one for me:

Wishing you lots of Christmas cheer.

As each day of the coming year

Dirty dishes will always appear

I am giving you something to keep near.

At the kitchen sink as you scrub the gunk away

Maybe it will put a little smile on your face that day.

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Comments (13)

Adella Bedella
18 years ago
My poetry is awful. If you google "poem" and "dirty dishes" you will get several hits. Here is the first hit I found.

Thank God For Dirty Dishes

Author Unknown

Thank God for dirty dishes;
They have a tale to tell.
While others may go hungry,
We're eating very well
With home, health, and happiness,
I shouldn't want to fuss;
By the stack of evidence,
God's been very good to us.

I'd add "Merry Christmas" and your name.

If you didn't want this this to be religious, you could change it to something like

Thank Goodness For Dirty Dishes

Thank goodness for dirty dishes;
They have a tale to tell.
While others may go hungry,
We're eating very well
With home, health, and happiness,
I shouldn't want to fuss;
By the stack of evidence,
This years's been very good to us.

Here is a link that might be useful: Dirty Dishes Poem
woodie
18 years ago
Hi Bluelou - I asked for some suggestions from my buddies on The Cooking Forum and they came up with a few!

Here is a link that might be useful: Cooking Forum
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evelyn_craftdiva
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Okay here's my attempt.

Please accept my Holiday wishes
On this small gift from me to you
To help with those dirty dishes
That your family left for you to do
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That dirty dishes will never reappear
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Cause Christmas comes but once a year
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les917
18 years ago
Christmas arrives only once a year,
But dirty dishes are always here.
So this gift is given from me to you
To help with kitchen chores you do.
I hope it brings a smile your way
As my wish for a 'bubbly' holiday!
lonestarlady
18 years ago
Les, one thing I remember about you being at THS was all the poems you would write for others. I always thought that was so nice of you!
dustyknees
18 years ago
noone would want a gift made of rubber.
especially a boughten?dish scrubber.
it's a reminder of a sink full of dishes.
don't think it's at the top of anyones wishes.
(but you're getting it anyway)

hows that one?don't know what boughten is but it looks like a fancy word.maybe british.
country_bumpkin_al
18 years ago
Great idea!! Uh....what's a boughten dish scrubber? lol
Adella Bedella
18 years ago
'Boughtin' is another way of saying 'purchased'.
Adella Bedella
18 years ago
Oops...that's 'boughten'. I think that the op is trying to say she purchased a factory produced scrubber instead of handcrafting one.

I bet you could package this up really cute. Sort of like the "We whisk you a Merry Christmas" whisks.
country_bumpkin_al
18 years ago
Well I'll be danged! That's the neatest idea I've heard in a while!!!
les917
18 years ago
Thanks, Lonestarlady (and thanks for clueing me in about THS again). One thing I missed most about not being here was writing the poems - lots of fun for me!
bluelou
Original Author
18 years ago
Thank you for your contributions, I really appreciate you taking your precious time to help me out. Now I can finish my project and get my co-worker gifts ready.
carleenschult
18 years ago
I found this one somewhere; maybe you could change it around if you wanted to.

God bless my little kitchen,
I love its every nook.
And Bless me as I do my work,
Wash pots and pans and cook.

And may the meals that I prepare
Be seasoned from above,
With Thy great blessing
And They grace,
But most of all Thy Love.

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