Best Cautionary Poems
A Cautionary Tale
A girl called Lucy loved to trumpet lies
And idle gossip laced her lips with ease.
Tall tales tripped off her tongue to tantalise
Those twitching ears which reddened by degrees.
This filled her honest Mother with despair
‘You wash your mouth with soap’ she often cried.
Young Lucy shrugged it off and did not care -
To those who would do...
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Categories:
cautionary, death, insect,
Form:
Rhyme
A Cautionary Tale For Halloween
A cautionary tale I have for you.
Trust no one that you see on Halloween,
especially whom you’ve opened your door to.
Trickery diabolical I’ve seen.
One Halloween while feasting with a friend
on Reece’s pieces (popular for treats),
the door bell rang. Who knew it was the end
of my poor friend? She thought they wanted sweets.
Three vampires with one alien...
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Categories:
cautionary, halloween,
Form:
Sonnet
Cautionary Couplets
CAUTIONARY COUPLETS
I hazard it has many times been said
That we have never lived if we’ve not bled
If you attest a life of no regret
I’ll wager you have never placed a bet
If in your time you never crash and burn
You miss an opportunity to learn
If you forever seek to others blame
Well they may seek to ever...
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Categories:
cautionary, life,
Form:
Couplet
An Oracle '' a Cautionary Tale''
An Oracle, ‘’ a cautionary tale’’
The man was called upon to help he went, heart full of love, not his own
but (put there) questions and laughter..are (you surely sent) then test the
spirits was a teaching the ‘‘executive Minister’’ applied, an overriding
rule his intent! Journey down to a little old hall, seemed to rub...
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Categories:
cautionary, brother, introspection,
Form:
Rhyme
A Cautionary Nursery Rhyme
Solomon Grundy, Solomon Grundy,
sniffer of glue, when offered, on Monday.
The Tuesday was hash, a whopping great spliff;
on Wednesday took coke, a generous sniff.
For Thursday some crack, the dodgiest brand,
and Friday’s dope needle was quite second-hand.
When Saturday came, a massive OD;
on Sunday it ended, this hedonist spree.
In spite of the blurb you find on a packet,
right...
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Categories:
cautionary, health, time,
Form:
Verse
Cautionary Tail
There was a chap from Queens
Who loved big bowls of beans.
He ate them with delight
Both morning and night.
Blasting a hole backside his jeans....
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Categories:
cautionary, humor,
Form:
Limerick
Santa"s Works Night Out. a Cautionary Tale
At last it has arrived,
let there be no doubt.
That everyone goes crazy
at the Christmas staff night out.
Now Santa took the sleigh.
He did not stop to think.
For that was very foolish
with all that food and drink!
Tooth fairy looked real nice
so did the pantomime dames,
but Grinch was...
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Categories:
cautionary, funnyeaster, me,
Form:
Rhyme
Cautionary Tale
Trust
true, unwavering
confident certain absolute
belief shattered, changing views
Strength...
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Categories:
cautionary, courage, life,
Form:
Cinquain
Blood and Envy: a Cautionary Christmas Poem
Blood and Envy - A Cautionary Christmas Poem
By Jude S. Walko
Twas some time after All Hallows Eve.
The roof started to leak like a sieve.
But the buckets of rain,
seem to wash away the pain,
and left young Timmy relieved.
The holidays swiftly descended down,
spreading cheer throughtout his town.
Each caught up in his own,
leaving Timmy completely alone.
Nary even...
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Categories:
cautionary, boy, christmas, father son,
Form:
Iambic Pentameter
A Cautionary Tale
Once, a little Spanish girl
was given a "regalo" -
a dainty little potted plant,
a purple-petalled mallow.
She set it in a sunny spot,
beneath a southern window,
re-housed it in an iron pot
and named it, "Don Galindo".
She gave it water every day,
and gave its loam a hoeing.
She talked to...
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Categories:
cautionary, humor,
Form:
Ballad
Breakwater Marquette, Michegan
Technically, not a sea at all,
Lake Superior churns up its share of sea storms.
There is not a lot to do in Marquette, Michigan:
Except for high school drivers to "buzz the gut",
Or cruise past a courthouse where "Anatomy" was filmed.
You could smoke dope or drink underage
Under a disused, fourteen story ore pocket dock.
Rusted off shards of...
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Categories:
cautionary, adventure, education, fate, growing
Form:
Free verse
A Cautionary Ditty Concerning Fast Food
There was a girl called Polly Esther,
the fastest girl from downtown Leicester.
Pre-packaged food was her sole fare,
For healthy meals she had no care.
In the tum for food there's room.
There plastic wrappings end in doom...
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Categories:
cautionary, food, pollution,
Form:
Burlesque
A Cautionary Tail
Herr Heinrich Schneider and his spouse
Felt the need to wander,
And for once to leave their house
For a land that lay far yonder.
Japan at cherry-blossom time!
No better place than this
Enthralled the German couple’s mind.
The chance they would not miss.
"But what of Spezi", Heidi cried,
"We can’t leave him behind."
"Ach! unser Spezi," Heinrich sighed.
"There’s a way we’ll find."
They...
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Categories:
cautionary, dog,
Form:
Didactic
AI - A Cautionary Tale
A happier couple, you could never see.
One blessed day, they would be three.
They'd enjoy a picnic in a park or beach,
Joe and his wife, Molly, a lovely peach.
I would say their lives were very much in check
'Til the day Joe became obsessed with tech.
"Where's our simple life?", Molly would sigh,
"Before electronic gadgets and AI?"
Soon, digital tools...
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Categories:
cautionary, humor, technology,
Form:
Rhyme
A Cautionary Tale
Give me a minute
Let me give it some thought
Don’t wanna’ jump into
Maybe something’ I should not
Let me wrinkle my brow
Let me ponder a bit
Let me mull it over
Let me see if it fits
Let me scratch my head
Stare into space
Let me put all the pieces
Into their proper place
Don’t want to be impulsive
Don’t want to be...
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Categories:
cautionary, character, nonsense, silly,
Form:
Couplet