Best Cliches Poems

A POEM MADE UP OF CLICHES

At Poetry Soup we're admonished
Never to use cliches
They provide us an extensive list
For the error of our ways

But one thing you can rely on
Is people just don't pay heed
Like a dog gnawing a ham bone
Poets write stuff unfitten to read

Over...

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To 'ride on somebody's coat tails'
Is the most dangerous thing you can do
'Keep a stiff upper lip' is another cliché
Mine's not stiff, how about you?

'One good turn deserves another'
Turns my stomach if you must ask
'There's no fool like an old fool'
I'm quite offended by the...

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Testing the waters 
of this undeserved fame.

As this life as we know it,
really isn't much more than a game.

Theres nothing left to lose.
No more to soon gain.

What you bring to the table,
isn't much to many.

And if silence is as good as gold.
Look forword to what...

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When I was young, I fantasized of the girl I’d like to find:
A certain look, a sense of style, enlightened education,
Alluring eyes, a charming smile, and some sophistication.
But over time I realized she was only in my mind.

Lonely years passed, I compromised, and left my...

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No Time Like The Present    (Cliches Contest)



I need to get out of this place!
So very tired of everyone's bromidic rhetoric.

It's sickening...

The continuous chatter of a dramatic existence.

It's sickening...

Who are these people anyways?
Shhhh! I hear my mother whispering some old cliché, so far...

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Every poet worth their sault
Every teacher and professor declare you will prove to be as dense as a London fog
Using clichés
But I think clichés make it clear as the nose on your face
That there are things as beautiful as the day is long
And as far...

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first  " there's not time like the present"  then they say "haste makes waste"
then "don't put off until tomorrow what you can do today"

"the more things change the more they stay the same" some say
and in the next breath"tomorrows another day"

they say "if...

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I once lived in a notebook but now I live in your head with your dreams.

And I scheme.

He was warmed to the truth by tea and intoxicatologigated by me

I see!

I am right round the corner from him.You might say,we are at right angled cross purposes

Is...

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I've got butterflies in my stomach,
A frog in my throat,
Cat's got my tongue,
And someone's got my goat.

I'm as sly as a fox,
But as blind as a bat.
I'm as silly as a goose.
Now what do you think of that?...

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Seduced by clichés of love,
We signed on for wedding doves,
Being at those wedding receptions, 
All clichés of norms' conventions,
Having a cream puff wedding day,
Was an expensive way of getting laid,
All clichés for the bridal industry,
Trite cant and hypocrisy,
BUT--the appliances outlived everyone!!
Wedding gifts when once were...

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To live by cliches
is a apparently a taboo.
But I won't deny

My -hopeless romantic- beliefs
in -true love-

or

My faith that humanity has
-more good than evil-

or

My philosophical perspective
that -you live and you learn-

or

My belief that
-time heals all wounds-

...cliches define our lives
-as we know it-

They are the simplest form
of...

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I rest my case
on a house of cards
(that)
hit the nail on the head
(of) the nail in the coffin
(that)
hit the ground running
where the rubber hits the road
(while)
time flies when you’re having fun
in the nick of time
(and)
all’s well that ends well
all is fair in love and war
(let’s...

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Somebody told me that cliches are dead
But what if I run out of things to say
Can I say "to know me is to love me"
Or "tomorrow is just another day"

What about "liars never prosper and cheaters never win"
Would I be accused of reviving the dead
"A...

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The stillness of the sound
It’s feeding like a drip
Oh life’s a funny old thing.

Planes drone overhead
Seas lap dirty shores
It’s just a string of clichés.

My hands are bored
My heart’s overgrown
It doesn’t know where to go.

I’ve got a fissure inside
It gets deeper every time
Whenever I try to...

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Are cucumbers cool
As a general rule?
How fresh is a daisy?
Are loons always crazy?

How snug is a bug
When he’s not in a rug?
How gentle are lambs
If not happy as clams?

How clever’s a fox
That’s as dumb as an ox?
How fit is a fiddle
Not clean as a whistle?

Are...

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