Best Aphorisms Poems
Life is for the living,
Life is for the loving,
Love is for the giving,
We do live vicariously,
Don't take things too seriously,
Let's make extinction extinct,
How? Let's have a think!
Work and pray for Peace,
For plebs and critters we keep,
Let's preserve more habitats,
For wildlife and people chaps,
Exile brainwashing dictators,
Breed positive motivators,
Redirect capitalism,
Too much conflict over 'isms
Masks our real problems.
World makes too many munitions....
Create diverse solutions,
Too many mind pollutions,
Let's write some aphorisms,
Life is for the living,
Life is for the loving.
Categories:
aphorisms, animal, how i feel,
Form:
Free verse
Mmm!
I ate a Cracker!
Crackers taste good!
Now I'm a cannibal.
Categories:
aphorisms, eulogy, food, funny, happy,
Form:
Epigram
I'll have
the beauty platter
with ugly on the side.
Categories:
aphorisms, angst, emotions, food, funny,
Form:
Epigram
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.
Categories:
aphorisms, fun, funny, humor, humorous,
Form:
Prose
We grew up with aphorisms--
Pithy, witty observations;
Some may only be sophisms
That were passed through generations.
Old but not anachronisms,
They’re still true in many nations.
They have kept their witticisms
And established strong foundations.
As I’m fond of verbalisms,
I have made some alterations,
I call them malaphorisms,
Please take them without vexations:
1. A bird in the hand is worth … the same in the other hand.
2. Birds of the same feather … belong to the same species.
3. Do not put off for tomorrow what you can … put off for the day after tomorrow.
4. Two heads are better than … none.
5. If there’s a will, there’s a … future tense.
6. Tell me who your friends are, and I will tell …. them who you are.
7. A tree is known by its fruit … unless you don’t know the fruit, either.
8. The grass is always greener on the other side … where the dog’s pee doesn’t reach.
9. A picture is worth a thousand … dollars, or, it depends on the artist.
10. Better late than … later.
11. All work and no play makes Jack …, or anyone, exhausted.
12. Fools rush in where … there is no need to rush.
13. If others can, … let them do it.
14. One man’s meat is … not enough for two.
15. Time and tide … start with t- and end with -e.
November 6, 2024
Baguio City, Philippines
Categories:
aphorisms, funny, humor, parody, words,
Form:
Light Verse
Who wants a free writing tool?
We take a lot of upkeep.
Categories:
aphorisms, fun, funny, humor, humorous,
Form:
Prose
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 rain knuckles,”
and later “was a sight for sore eyes”
Sometimes “I just had a conniption fit” and it ended there.
It’s been said “I was like a cheap gun:
shoots quick but kicks hard,”
Because I’ve told a few “how the cow ate the cabbage,”
and “If they ruffled my tail feathers”
they got “burned like a chicken at a barbecue”
after I’d “give’em what for.”
When younger “I had my ears back and claws out,”
and “I’d start a fight at the drop of a hat”
and I’d drop it myself.
I’ve been called tight and narrow minded,
I wasn’t tight “I just had short arms and deep pockets”
and some said “I was so narrow minded
that I could look through a keyhole with both eyes.”
But I thought “I was tougher than stewed skunk”
Because I drank my coffee so strong
“it would raise a blood blister on a boot”
I once fought this guy
who was “fatter than a boarding house cat”
he was so big that, “he looked like he ate his brother,”
and “his pants could serve time as a pup tent.”
He “had more guts than you could hang on a fence,”
and looked like he could “lick his weight in wildcats.”
But now at eighty times have changed.
I’ve become “so confused I can’t tell
if I’ve lost my mule or found a rope”
I’m “as confused as a goat on AstroTurf”
“my elevator doesn’t go all the way to the top”
and some days “I feel like the lights are on but nobody is home”
Some days are more difficult “than putting socks on a rooster”
so “it’s about time to put the chairs in the wagon,”
“put out the fire and call in the dogs.”
But after spinning this yarn I’ll confess,
“I’m all hat and no cattle”
If you knew me “you’d stick to me like sticker burs to bare feet”
see you next time, “Lord willing and the creek don’t rise”.
Tom
Categories:
aphorisms, humor, satire,
Form:
Free verse
Aphorisms
Mom used to say
Tom
7/14/2018
“You’re as Lost as a Goose in a Snow Storm”,
But a loggerheaded kid thought that was the norm.
Or “What’s good for the Goose is good for the Gander”
Keep that in mind when tempted to slander.
“Never kill the Goose that lays the golden egg”
You’ll wind up poor and someday have to beg.
Son, “Feather by Feather a Goose is plucked”
The down is for pillows that I’ll soon construct.
You can’t fill a round hole using a square peg,
And I’ve heard “A Wild Goose, never laid a tame egg”
Categories:
aphorisms, humor,
Form:
Couplet
An Escarpment of memories
Distilled into form
Congealed to moisture
Before the storm.
I visit vagaries of such places
where measuring worlds
Or matching faces
Upon that inward surface
Of a glassy eye,
May bring one tears to cry.
I try to keep them from escaping
I cannot be their jailer,
I stand without an argument,
A broken sailor.
Leaning on rebuke,
Watching stronger currents flow.
Torrents breaking my resistance,
I let go.
Release my silent shout.
Each time I pause to ponder
Slow my spirit, travel yonder.
Amazed at how the moving
And the stillness merge to Now.
The breath of God,
Revealed somehow.
The line or edge or crack or curtain
Whatever you call it, you can be certain
It is the place where all that is: Becomes.
The fraction of the smallest passing
In between the crumbs.
Not raw potential, mud or clay;
Nor finished moment, end of day.
This moving stillness that we call creation,
A touch of which, brings joy and true elation.
Think of Air and you have found me
For I have thought on air;
Now, I surround Thee.
But for this one moment; I am not;
Nor ever did I be.
Without the Air and Thee
There would be no Me.
Categories:
aphorisms, birth, creation, cry, deep,
Form:
Rhyme
APHORISMS OF Q (VOL. 1/viii)
I found a most enchanting place
Where all is pure, wonderful and safe
And then I dared to look around
And found my self in the mind of a child
Categories:
aphorisms, africa, age, children, freedom,
Form:
Rhyme
1. We, humans, belong to Earth, rather than earth belongs to us.
2. One handicap we have is our biggest organ (NOT THAT!) but our SKIN:
The skin gives us a false sense that we are separated from the environment and other life.
3. A bird in the air, a fish or whale in the ocean, do not have this ALIENATION from the environment on which they depend. Humans make this odd dichotomy between the internal and external.
4. With life forms, there is only "inside-outside" for Science, or boxing and dissecting, to "get knowledge" (as opposed to wisdom). Death is a great leveler, as the Poet wrote. Death makes us one with the environment, the elements, even if we disagree with Genesis that God made ADAM (meaning "man") from "dust." Wisdom is evident in Bhutan, which includes for Global economics, GDP and GROSS HUMAN HAPPINESS. Hence their KING helped a sick US tourist - without a spleen - overcome Corona virus, though he is in his 70s, a miracle we shall hear more about for how some "dead" people are really more alive now.
Categories:
aphorisms, anxiety, appreciation, art, atheist,
Form:
Didactic
When chess pieces are bent on offensive moves, and no piece remains to sacrifice themselves for the King, a losing side can CHECKMATE an isolated King.
Categories:
aphorisms, adventure, allegory, analogy, bible,
Form:
Epigram
If we could read the minds of others, we would end up deaf
Future is unforeseen and inescapable
Old age expels the judgement
Intelligence and stupidity are often closely associated
Flashes of thought are expressed without thunder
Categories:
aphorisms, philosophy
Form:
Monoku
There is no peaceful silence
than within the silence itself...
No further love than inside
of love itself..
So let's dig,
Let's look for it then...!
Categories:
aphorisms, adventure, allusion, analogy, appreciation,
Form:
Light Verse
Write compelling aphorisms poetically,
is convinced and resolute posture in poem,
On a treadmill of wisdom with a Socratic mantle!
Categories:
aphorisms, allusion, analogy, appreciation, growth,
Form:
Free verse