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Best Adages Poems

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Adages
A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush
But man is slaved to fate,
No fun or spontaneity
Unless you speculate

You can’t keep a good...

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© Tony Bush  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: adages, funny, life,
Form: Verse



Adages Pt. 1 (The Cloud)
Adages Pt. 1 (the cloud) 

I am just baggage to the world 
Cast away and forgotten 
An entire life 
Waiting for something 

Every so often...

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Categories: adages, angst, confusion, imagination, introspection,
Form: Free verse
Adages Pt. 3 (The Hierophant)
I can see the web of lies around me
Constructed by the spider in my heart
Just a manipulator
Playing its games with my life
I promised myself
As only...

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Categories: adages, angst, hope, inspirational, introspection,
Form: Free verse
Adages Pt. 2 (Darkness)
Adages Pt. 2 (darkness) 

Everything is spinning 
A place so dark with insolence 
Ignorance 
The trickiest joke for man to bear witness 
Soon drawn into...

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Categories: adages, angst, art, confusion, loss,
Form: Free verse
Such and Such--N7 Oulipo
The lack of a single-word inflammable
in our lanterns is what is killing me
 
this morpheme
          ...

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Categories: adages, crazy, math, poetry,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Sage Advice From George Washington
"Associate yourself with men of good quality if you esteem your reputation!"

This sage advice was offered by George Washington, the father of our nation!

'Tis but...

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Categories: adages, humorous, inspiration,
Form: Couplet
I Wonder Why
I wonder why i write rhymes
and my root rings in rhapsodies,
oh, my mouth moves in melodies
....my pen is pegged to poetry.

I wonder why I woo...

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Categories: adages, on writing and words
Form: Verse
Premium Member My Thoughts On Silence
Embracing silence as my friend
has often saved my sanity.
I realized its benefits.
The adages seemed right for me:
 
       ...

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Categories: adages, loneliness, love,
Form: Quatrain
Magic Ruins
in the rusty tide animating bones
of deluded gods reaching for the lie
etched on eroded steles in dead lisps
licking flames of seers tossing guts
filled with blue...

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© Alex Roth  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: adages, art, christian, dark, deep,
Form: Free verse
We Are No Cowards
In the jungle of our collective heritage
In our wild teaming with endless species of flora and fauna
In the savannah, the tropics and the deserts of...

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Categories: adages, animals, political, sadcat,
Form: Personification
The Child Pianist
I am attracted by
Virtuous notes
A capable sound
From a Steinway & Sons grand piano

A mighty orchestra
Unknown melodies
A child prodigy at the keyboard
A Gift of Peace

The hammer...

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Categories: adages, beauty, emotions, music, passion,
Form: Free verse
An Adage a Day
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 –...

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Categories: adages, words,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member My God, Thank You For Enabling Me To Keep Your Commandments
December 26 Scripture Meditations Based on Revelation 13-14

Key Verse – Revelation 14:12 Here is the patience of the saints: here are they that keep the...

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Categories: adages, blessing, christian, faith, god,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Tom Sharing Aphorisms
Tom Sharing Aphorisms
(old adages)
Composed: by Miracle Man
11-9-2019

I’ve been told, when younger,
”I could start a fight in an empty House.”
Because often “I would cloud up and...

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© Tom Wright  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: adages, humor, satire,
Form: Free verse
In Cold Blood
IN COLD BLOOD


We live in a world of deceit and lies,
Squatting aimlessly like measly flies.
We smoke the weed of compromise,
We abuse the adages of the...

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Categories: adages, 12th grade, horror,
Form: Free verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things