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Best Old Adage Poems

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Pun With Eggs
Benedict was tired, he’d been driving all day.  
This was his last delivery, 2 tonnes of eggs delivered to Safeway.  
The kid came...

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Categories: old adage, fun, humor,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Selfie Or Call Me Insensitive
You call me insensitive,
But I don't believe that's true;
Because, you see,
It's all about me.
It's not about you.

You say your opinion doesn’t matter,
That I’ve no respect...

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Categories: old adage, angst, culture, funny, giggle,
Form: Rhyme
Blacklisted
The poet Marshall Mathers
whilst "Cleaning Out My Closet"
blasted with inquiry-

"Have you ever been hated on or discriminated against?
I have...''

Interesting enough
in these crooked times
it is impossible...

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Categories: old adage, anti bullying, appreciation, betrayal,
Form: Alliteration
Premium Member We Are He Who We Seek
We are he who we seek

Millions of magnetised bliss bubbles burst
Concentrated along our central vein
Rapture beyond measure quenches heart’s thirst
Ignition renews again and again

We would,...

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Categories: old adage, joy, spiritual,
Form: Sonnet
Familiarity Can Breed Contempt
Having been on my own 
for the past ten years 
I suppose I am set in my ways
If I’ve no planned routine
at the start of...

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Categories: old adage, family, friendship, solitude, space,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member How Thick Is Your Skin
How Thick Is Your Skin?
Written: by Tom Wright
3/31/2018

In today’s society it appears to be about skin,
Many whine when things don’t go their way.
Laying at fault,...

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© Tom Wright  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: old adage, word play, words,
Form: Lyric
Alone With Lemons and Limes
He told me I had lemon skin
my breath was tart upon my lips
I carried the weight of the world on my hips
My tongue I should...

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Categories: old adage, imagination, introspection, life, places,
Form: I do not know?
Education
As an old adage,
Education is the key to suceess;
But talent and skill ,put to good use__
Can make one sucessful....

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Categories: old adage, happiness, inspirational,
Form: Narrative
Epitome Apotheosis
EPITOME APOTHEOSIS

Glory Glory
Does she answer to us to bring peace in our world?
You know men are now participants of a new recreation.
Gay sex is prone...

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Categories: old adage, africa, america, culture, england,
Form: Rhyme
Be Choosy About Change
Indeed old is gold
and so's I'm told
Don't be in a hurry
to have all antiques sold
For this old adage
Todate water it holds.

Indeed the good old days
had...

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Categories: old adage, social, society,
Form: Concrete
When the Bubble Bursts
Buoyed over waves of elation
Marvel at favourable sights of creation

Prospect for attainment visible
Within glossy bastion, even trials seems agreeable

Mollusk of endearing devotion, grumbling for denied...

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Categories: old adage, pain, strength, time,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Spoilt For Choice
For those fortunate and more prosperous of us today
as consumers we have too much choice
we are spoilt
and  nauseatingly throw so much away
While so many...

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© Peter Dome  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: old adage, discrimination, food, society, stress,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member My Hero - My Dad
I grew up holding a dear man in high esteem,
And as strange to you as it may seem,
Though there was a plethora of heroes to...

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Categories: old adage, family, father, hero, old,
Form: Rhyme
Let's Trade
Everyday is market day
But I rarely come your way
I have a glimpse of what you have at bay
They glow and glitter from your better ray
And...

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Categories: old adage, bible, blessing, desire, god,
Form: Rhyme
Conflicting Emotions
Conflicting emotions, twirl inside of me, emotions or anger, rage pain and 
insanity
Crying out for release, wondering when it will cease, this raging beast of...

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Categories: old adage, business, introspection, life, passion,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Shattered Sighs