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Bite Off More Than They Can Chew
Bite Off More Than They Can Chew

How can someone be chocked up who we knew;
Have them Bite Off More Than They Can Chew;
Terrible diet;
Should not...

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© James Horn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: bite off more than you can chew, allegory, analogy,
Form: Limerick



Xenophobia Pt 1
TITLE:
       Xenophobia

Heed the warning
This isn't for the faint of heart
Verbalizing my deepest yearnings 
They're bound to be a bit...

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Categories: bite off more than you can chew, america, anxiety, prejudice, universe,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member Enjoy Yourself
You work and work for years and years. You're always on the go. 
You never take a minute off, you're too busy makin' dough. 
Some...

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Categories: bite off more than you can chew, life, song-work, fun, kiss,
Form: Rhyme
The Dragon and the Unicorn
One day Diaz the Dragon was hungry, but too tired to hunt
"Hmm, what's good to eat, I've already had a lamb, but he was a...

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Categories: bite off more than you can chew, child, children, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
It Was a Setup
IT WAS A SETUP

In the beginning the was word
And the word became flesh
It was a setup! When a virgin was with a child
And the little...

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Categories: bite off more than you can chew, betrayal, christian, evil, jesus,
Form: Ballad



Eavesdropping 2
To keep thee from the evil woman,
from the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman
Lust not after her beauty in thine heart;
neither let her...

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Categories: bite off more than you can chew, allegory, angst, bible, relationship,
Form: Free verse
I'M Ready, the End
Stripped like a slave I have no freedom
No rights inside this enclosed life
Its starring me in the eyes what do I do with this knife
Dropping...

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Categories: bite off more than you can chew, sadlife, god, me, dark,
Form: Rhyme
No Cross Surrogate
Such is your 'No' phobia, you repeatedly bite off more than you can chew
     Stuck as a broken record on yes,...

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Categories: bite off more than you can chew, metaphor,
Form: Personification
Moving Your Metatarsals
Moving Your Metatarsals 

This is dedicated to Julia Ward
Unsure of where poetry ship is moored.

Distinctly from every ones due accord
We are looking forward to reading...

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© James Horn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: bite off more than you can chew, analogy, humorous,
Form: Couplet
Pushing the Envelope
Pushing the envelope is what I do.
Sometimes I bite off more than I can chew,
  but that's how I am and how I roll.
I...

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Categories: bite off more than you can chew, truth,
Form: Rhyme
Jiffeelube Colonic
Stomach growling
     harsh, 
                 scowling
at...

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Categories: bite off more than you can chew, introspection, lost love, wife,
Form: Rhyme
The Place Within the Fire Part Iii
my world of tidal waves and sinking cities has not surprised me
of falling towers and other such horrors
its like ive accidentally seen them coming
and now...

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Categories: bite off more than you can chew, angst, death, hope, life,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member An Idiomatic Chicken Tale
An Idiomatic Chicken Tale

Don’t count your chickens before they hatch,
you may bite off more than you can chew.
But if you do count, make sure you...

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Categories: bite off more than you can chew, bird,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Aw, Cmon Man
Aw, C’mon Man
Be honest With Me
(more idioms)
Composed: by Miracle Man
 4/12/2020

“Whatever greases your wagon” is fine with me,
but “don’t bite off more than you can...

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© Tom Wright  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: bite off more than you can chew, humor, truth,
Form: Lyric
Scuttlebutt
I like travelling a lot 
that’s why people are
often giving me guilt trips.

I like to drill and dig holes
that’s why people always bore me.

I like...

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Categories: bite off more than you can chew, confusion,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs