Best Not Playing With A Full Deck Poems
What Are IdiomsYou 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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Categories:
not playing with a full deck, character, education, humorous, language,
Form:
Quatrain
Words and PhrasesWhat 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 MineWhen 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
Republicans Are Really a RipRepublicans 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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Categories:
not playing with a full deck, encouraging,
Form:
Haiku
An Idiomatic Chicken TaleAn 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