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Best Idioms Poems

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What Are Idioms
You might take this with a grain of salt
Knowing I heard it on the grape vine
Why they let the cat out of the bag
I'd say...

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© Pat Adams  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: idioms, character, education, humorous, language,
Form: Quatrain



Idioms!
An idiom for you
An idiom for me
It’s just an expression,
a message, you see.

Silence is golden.
Trouble comes in three.
Each to his own taste.
The powers that be.

A...

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Categories: idioms, funny, happiness, on writing
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member On My Mother Passing
ON MY MOTHER’S PASSING

i wanted to keep my mother physically with me
but it would be like trying to hold the sun
like in life she still...

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Categories: idioms, cheer up, mother, mother
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Panorama of Primrose Promises
 In the valley 
    of violin vines,
    when the saffron sun ascends,
and crooning clouds 
   drift...

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Categories: idioms, music,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Language of Blue
The Language of Blue

Sinking into the lyrical language of blue
Prime layers of still solitude speak
 With muted voices
  In sapphire soprano rhapsodies,
Lines of bass...

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Categories: idioms, blue, language, music,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Cerulean Seclusion
In blackness,
 I hear forked tongues 
whisper wicked witchery,
hope within arthritic 
  ink slowly f a d e s
as darkness descends  
upon snow-speckled...

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Categories: idioms, angst,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Lets Tango
The anatomy of a poet’s heart ebbs and flows~
  sometimes like the swirling ocean,
  fluent in idyllic idioms and mystical metaphors,
woven from aesthetic...

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Categories: idioms, deep,
Form: Free verse
Flower of Love
will open my          and speak in
          ...

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Categories: idioms, love, romance, love, me,
Form: Shape
Scion of Wisdom
A sage with wisdom so erudite
Muse filtering hope, shedding light
Mentor whose keen insight doth shape, mold
Dr Ram's words are better than gold

Twining cultures with his...

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Categories: idioms, dedicationwords,
Form: Kyrielle
Premium Member Of Captains and Cradles
Oh, My Dear Walter, how your words have slayed
          Humbled me, broken me, molded, remade

To taste...

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Categories: idioms, appreciation, history, poetry, poets,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Wounds Are Hurtful Ifl
You belong somewhere in the vast cosmos
where the idiomatic idioms were born

I started to wonder and cry,
Lord, have mercy; this is not I.
I felt as...

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© Sotto Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: idioms, analogy, angst, bereavement, death,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Walk
I will walk at eleven.
Easy trip, short, sweet ramble
Down to the creek, midheaven
Is close, just a short amble.

Where the sparse, sweet trillium
Grows, also lofty goshawk
Whose...

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Categories: idioms, nature,
Form: Other
Premium Member A Political Opinion
A political Opinion
(idioms taken from More Texas Sayings)
Composed: by Miracle man
3-26-2020

I believe she’s “so narrow minded 
that she could look through a keyhole with both...

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© Tom Wright  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: idioms, humorous, political,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Words
Warm, whimsical words surround me
Guiding me through the field of nouns
Shedding light on the beauty of a verb
Embracing me with the creation of verses
~
Brilliants hues...

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Categories: idioms, imagination, inspiration, literature, muse,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Captive Quill
Written: September 09, 2023
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In the abyss of night, I'm held captive tight.
Addiction to idioms fuels my Phoebus fight.
I abide, vouching sporadically to escape,
From the clutches...

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© Sotto Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: idioms, addiction, analogy, appreciation, poetry,
Form: Rhyme

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