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Haste Makes Waste Ode To a Cyclist

No matter what I read
No matter what I said
The listener never stirred in bed
To all he just appeared quite dead
Eyes blank and always open
Not a...

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Categories: haste makes waste, farewell, feelings, first love,
Form: Rhyme

Haste Makes Waste

No matter what I read
No matter what I said
The listener never stirred in bed
To all he just appeared quite dead
His eyes were always open
Yet not...

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Categories: haste makes waste, death, goodbye, grave,
Form: Rhyme

What's the Buzz

If I were a fly, I would take my place
In the halls of Congress where haste makes waste
     I’d buzz the...

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Categories: haste makes waste, funny
Form: Limerick

This Year

A brand new year has just begun, new page,
sheet one of twelve to see upon the wall.
It cleanly hangs, no scribbles, signs of age:
a fresh...

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Categories: haste makes waste, new year,
Form: Quintain (English)

Patience

Patience
By: Tom
8/8/2019
Haiku

Patience is our friend,
Because its true, haste makes waste,
More patience, less haste.
...

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Categories: haste makes waste, friend, life,
Form: Haiku

My Idiom Oneliners Part 2

I noticed that the grass was always greener on the other side, as I made my way to the 18th hole and practiced my drive.

As...

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Categories: haste makes waste, humor,
Form: Light Verse

Quit Wasting My Time { Edit }

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Categories: haste makes waste, adventure, education, fantasy, forgiveness,
Form: Limerick

What My Grandma Said-F


I never knew her as a big talker,
but to me, she was a very keen
observer and one great listener.

I have always remembered the 8 words
she...

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Categories: haste makes waste, adventure, child, childhood, family,
Form: Prose Poetry

Get On With It

Hi Michael:

You might have been too young to remember, but there is a certain line that Grandma use to say to any of us who...

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Categories: haste makes waste, brother, childhood, family, grandchild,
Form: Narrative

Contradictory Cliches

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...

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Categories: haste makes waste, confusion, funny, life,
Form: I do not know?

Fast Food Fool

Hot peppers and spicy horseradish
   a gut-punch to the solar plexus
 Snake venom with moldy cheese
   not tonight, if you please...

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Categories: haste makes waste, food, health, hyperbole,
Form: Light Verse

Catching a Kitty

I’m an animal lover, especially of cats.
Daughter Donna admits they’re better than rats.
I had but one kitty and now I have six.
We need to catch...

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Categories: haste makes waste, animals, cat, , cute,
Form: Light Verse

Idioms Part 1

1/18/17



Among so many rocks and leafs
As well as animals that squawk or squeak
Talk is cheap

Many things considered a dime a dozen
Like limes and onions

You're either...

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Categories: haste makes waste, poetry, rap, word play,
Form: Rhyme

Wait

Self maintained, call me Frank Sinatra I did it my way - 
"Rocking Robin Must Be Love On The Brain"
Words from the wise men. Life...

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Categories: haste makes waste, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Epic

Life and I

For life, were we made
To live, were we given

In life, we learn to live
Yet in life's pursuits, life is spent

In search of ways to live...

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Categories: haste makes waste, life, life, life,
Form: Ode