Best Adage Poems

What you think you know,
   Is deadlier than what you don't.




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Benedict was tired, he’d been driving all day.  
This was his last delivery, 2 tonnes of eggs delivered to Safeway.  
The kid came...

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You call me insensitive,
But I don't believe that's true;
Because, you see,
It's all about me.
It's not about you.

You say your opinion doesn’t matter,
That I’ve no respect...

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When I need an uplift for my weary soul and to clear my muddled mind.
I slowly cruise along a country road to see what treasures...

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The poet Marshall Mathers
whilst "Cleaning Out My Closet"
blasted with inquiry-

"Have you ever been hated on or discriminated against?
I have...''

Interesting enough
in these crooked times
it is impossible...

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God is HOLY
being in his presence, you can't be LONELY.
He created the UNIVERSE, 
yet his commandment contains many VERSE..

When the Devil try to FUMBLE,
the mighy...

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Mr. Franklin "coined" that old saw, "A penny saved is a penny earned!"
I mused upon that fabled adage and for the olden days I yearned.
Then,...

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The whole world is not enough,
For my overflowing sorrow to engulf.
The firm mountains could not shake,
By the mere quiver of an earthquake.
When my love could...

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WHY MEN ARE CALLED GROOM AND WOMEN BRIDE

Hullabaloo and cacophony etched in your Union,
Soliloquies to break up with your said-protagonist of a spouse,
You forgot your...

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There's a man with some folks in his thrall

who is adamant about a wall.

Don't be rough on the prez;

like the one adage says:

It is better...

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We are he who we seek

Millions of magnetised bliss bubbles burst
Concentrated along our central vein
Rapture beyond measure quenches heart’s thirst
Ignition renews again and again

We would,...

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Hurry Up and Wait

Sir, permission to speak, major sir. Go ahead, private.
Sir, what time is the 10 o'clock inspection, major sir?
You mean the ten hundred...

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Having been on my own 
for the past ten years 
I suppose I am set in my ways
If I’ve no planned routine
at the start of...

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How Thick Is Your Skin?
Written: by Tom Wright
3/31/2018

In today’s society it appears to be about skin,
Many whine when things don’t go their way.
Laying at fault,...

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They say, "This to shall pass", so will my life
This trauma more than just a moment's strife
My heart has scarred from pain it has sustained
And...

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