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Best Axiom Poems

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Premium Member The Rime of the Swarthy Bard
Math, physics, English, and so on—
    alas, are tiresome!
All the professors here go on 
    with a prime axiom....

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Categories: axiom, humor, rap, satire, student,
Form: Bio



The Glass
Thrice I was asked the age old question
Was the glass half full or half empty
Always afraid of a trick, I could not make sense of...

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Categories: axiom, drink, humorous, identity, philosophy,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Forrest Gump
'Twas an emotional movie portraying the saga of a loveable chump.
'Twas about a hapless lad by the curious name of Forrest Gump!
He overcame handicaps that...

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Categories: axiom, friendshiplife,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Another Geometry Like Love
Basic geometry’s based on four axioms,
Something that many kids study in school,
But a fifth axiom’s needed to prove it all,
This is where things start in...

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Categories: axiom, god, math, science,
Form: Rhyme
Misemployments
M isemployments historically abound,
I nterestingly enough, where no politicians are found.
S light of hand and twist of fact,
E nergies are wasted on the wrong tract.
M...

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Categories: axiom, political, war
Form: Acrostic



The Sun
you’re more than just a heart of heat and light
     a rife marvel in the sky
     ...

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Categories: axiom, smile, sun, sunshine,
Form: Kimo
The Rant
Gone now are the wondrous minds of old,
whose era treasured learning over gold,
And humble were the thoughts and words of these,
who, trothed to truth, would...

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Categories: axiom, people, philosophy, political, society,
Form: Didactic
Knowledge and Science
Milton’s Paradise Lost is a book I sometimes dip into. For modern 
readers it does not lend itself to a quick browse. It’s pretty clear...

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Categories: axiom, bible, poems, science,
Form: Free verse
The Power of Giving
Giving is a placid air
It's safe to inhale in times of despair 
Lies deep a treasure chest that hold valuables 
To put smile on someone...

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Categories: axiom, giving,
Form: Free verse
Epigrams
Epigrams by Michael R. Burch

If brevity is the soul of wit
then brevity and levity 
are the whole of it.
—Michael R. Burch

To write an epigram, cram.
If...

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Categories: axiom, bible, metaphor, philosophy, poetry,
Form: Epigram
Premium Member Sentimental Slob
The way to a man's heart is through his heart
Contrary to how the old saying goes
After all my years this is what I've discovered
It's an...

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Categories: axiom, love,
Form: Quatrain
Armageddon
ARMAGEDDON!
Defining the human character avers that yet we may be different our likelihood 
     remnants the same.
Figments of yesterday lingers.
Never a...

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Categories: axiom, character, conflict, courage, creation,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Better To Have Loved
The axiom reads
Better to have loved and lost
The lost disagree...

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Categories: axiom, lost love,
Form: Haiku
Running Chestnut - Oxymoron
Plainly speaking four legged Oron not an instrument of torture               ...

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© John Beam  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: axiom, allegory, funny, on writing
Form: Free verse
Honest Lies
Begins with an appreciation of ledgers,
Clear, true and definite in appearance,
While a long journey through the never evers,
Finding fallacy in every reverence.

As much As I...

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Categories: axiom, self,
Form: I do not know?

Book: Shattered Sighs