Best Adage Poems
What you think you know,
Is deadlier than what you don't.
***
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 hours inspection, private?
Sir, yes sir, I mean ten hundred hours inspection, sir.
The inspection will be at ten hundred hours, private.
Sir, yes sir, however we've been standing here since
ten hundred hours for thirty minutes now, major sir.
It will be ten hundred hours when I say it is, private,
as he checks his watch, waits for the colonel to arrive.
Will I ever get the military out of my mind, must each
situation become another army wrinkle in time? While
I wait thirty minutes past my 10 o'clock appointment,
ponder if I should be the private, ask the receptionist
how much longer until my 10 o'clock job interview or
take the role of major and wait for the colonel to arrive.
I was pondering the adage
"a rolling stone gathers no moss."
If that is true would rolling moss
be 'street legal?' Or possession of a
controlled substance?
It is just a thought!
It brings to the forefront another adage.
"moss always grows on the
north side of the tree."
I can see a couple of cronies walking
in the woods. One asks the other,
"what happened to the north side
of the tree?"
The other answers, "you know what
happened to the north side of the
tree as well as I do, we smoked it!"
Sine Die
"Patience is a virtue" - beseeched by she.
Yet thou shares not thine's endurance for me.
PAW PAW ADAGE OF LIFE.
I know this fruit
I know its old nursery rhyme
I love its taste so sweet
The softness and sweetness align
But where thou grow makes me wonder
In bola thou stand amidst dirt
Cheered by smells and empty nylons
There you stand so tall and with ripe fruits
Thou sweetness is like Cummings
Your surrender on the mouth like a soft romance
Your taste on the lips sweet like a lovely kiss
Your watery body make my mouth wet
While my tongue leak up your juice
As it gives a slippery passage
For your easy sliding into my waiting stomach.
This I know I for sure
A star can shine in the dark sky
When nature unlucks its features
From nowhere a man shines.
As the old adage goes
Or the forefathers say
Never discuss
Religion
Or
Politics
Unless you enjoy
Your own company
If
one is a coincidence,
and
two is a trend.
Then...
Three is an emerging pattern.
Four is a set schedule.
Five is an unwritten rule.
Six is conventional wisdom.
Seven is accepted practice.
Eight is standard procedure.
Nine is etched in stone.
Ten is the law of the land.
Does your conniption fit?
If it's not a laughing matter, then it's not important.
Did you ever notice that when you stir a glass of something, the spoon says, "Jibiddy jibiddy jibiddy jibiddy"?
Worst first name of anyone I ever met: Schmedroy.
a penny saved is
a penny earned. just make sure
you spend it wisely,
give to the charity of
your choice and pay your taxes.
Well
before
St Luke's day-
best let the tup
play
Oil and water do not mix.
Bones may break with stones or sticks.
Old dogs never learn new tricks,
At least that’s what they say.
Feed a fever – starve a cold.
Lunch is never free, we’re told.
Practice makes things good as gold
Claim those who hold some sway.
Two wrong things don’t make a right.
Gift horse mouths may up and bite.
Early birds and worms unite;
It happens every day.
A bird in hand beats one not caught.
By looking, you’ll find what you’ve sought.
There’s truth in adages, we’re taught;
So gather while ye may…
Adage Medley
In the eyes of a child
we are all one.
~~~~~~~
When the freedom of the road calls,
Dress for the thrill.
~~~~~~~
It is not only important that
you add years to your life,
but also to add life to your years.
~~~~~~~
The first step in making your dream
come true,
you must wake up.
~~~~~~~
Whatever you do in life, nothing
is a waste of time,
If you are learn something from it.
~~~~~~~
Ulcers are caused by not so much
what your are eating,
As by what is eating you.
~~~~~~~
When you have to make a choice
and you don’t make one,
that in itself is a choice.
~~~~~~~
Erich J.Goller
Copyright 2005
(aka CAN NEVER BE UNSAID)
i’ve lived my life so far
with one simple guiding adage
it’s served me well i think
though i’ll never truly know
these days it seems somehow
to weigh heaviest on my heart
and seems to hinder more than serve
leaving me to rethink face value
you see i've always lived by words of caution
‘what’s said can never be unsaid
words spoken can never be unheard’
so most times i hesitate think twice and thrice
and won’t say what’s on my mind
for fear words misspoken can never be undone
now it seems i’d want to bare my heart and soul
yet those same words of caution still echo in my head
Published in my 24-page photo/anthology book ~CITYLIGHTS~ 2021
AP: Honorable Mention 2022
R-eminding you of one
O-ld and well known
S-aying that expresses
E-ach truth that has grown.
E-arly eighth of September,
S-ave a penny to earn;
T-hrift is coupled with hard work,
A-n early bird gets the worm.
N-ever forget the maxim,
I-n spite of your age;
L-et the proverb preach
L-esson from every
A-dage.
Epigrams II
Sex Hex
by Michael R. Burch
Love's full of cute paradoxes
(and highly acute poxes).
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Midnight Stairclimber
by Michael R. Burch
Procreation
is at first great sweaty recreation,
then—long, long after the sex dies—
the source of endless exercise.
***
The One True Poem
by Michael R. Burch
Love was not meaningless ...
nor your embrace, nor your kiss.
And though every god proved a phantom,
still you were divine to your last dying atom ...
So that when you are gone
and, yea, not a word remains of this poem,
even so,
We were One.
***
The Poem of Poems
by Michael R. Burch
for Beth
This is my Poem of Poems, for you.
Every word ineluctably true:
I love you.
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Here and Hereafter
by Michael R. Burch
Life’s saving graces are love, pleasure, laughter ...
wisdom, it seems, is for the Hereafter.
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Meal Deal
by Michael R. Burch
Love is a splendid ideal
(at least till it costs us a meal).
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Vice Grip
There’s no need to rant about Al-Qaeda and ISIS.
The cruelty of “civilization” suffices:
our ordinary vices.
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Piecemeal
by Michael R. Burch
And so it begins—the ending.
The narrowing veins, the soft tissues rending.
Your final solution is pending.
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The Whole of Wit
by Michael R. Burch
for Richard Moore
If brevity is the soul of wit
then brevity and levity
are the whole of it.
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Redefinitions
Faith: falling into the same old claptrap.—Michael R. Burch
Religion: the ties that blind.—Michael R. Burch
Baseball: lots of spittin’ mixed with some hittin’.—Michael R. Burch
Trickle down economics: an especially pungent golden shower.—Michael R. Burch
Poetry: the art of finding the right word at the right time.—Michael R. Burch