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Best Not Playing With A Full Deck Poems


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 your guess is as good as mine

They say I tend to sit on the fence,
Off my rocker by not a...

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© Pat Adams  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: not playing with a full deck, character, education, humorous, language,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Words and Phrases
What do you think of when I say the word “love”
Flowers, blue skies and sunshine
And so when you think of total “commitment”
It's a lifetime of souls intertwined

When you hear the phrase, “cool as a cucumber”
Does a vegetable come to mind
Or a frosty mint julep on...

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Categories: not playing with a full deck, humorous,
Form: Narrative
The Monster Mine
When looking into the mind's mirror
All that's found is fear there

Peering into that dark place
Not recognizing the face

Lurking there's the daemon, the monster
Yet some still see what they once were
Standing way off on a distant shore

This is no madness, insanity, possession
A brain crawling with bugs
It...

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Categories: not playing with a full deck, analogy, anger, angst, anxiety,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry



Republicans Are Really a Rip
Republicans Are Really a Rip (Rest In Peace)

Took a jab at Jeb
Who might be a Johnny Reb
Should he ebb and ebb?

Full of ridicule
Candidates can be a fool
Mind has a loose tool.

Leaving things a wreck
Not playing with a full deck
Running neck and neck.

Down path we were...

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© James Horn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: not playing with a full deck, encouraging,
Form: Haiku
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 have
a bird in the hand rather than two in the bush.

When counting don’t put all of your eggs in one...

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Categories: not playing with a full deck, bird,
Form: Free verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things