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Best Pearls Before Swine Poems


Premium Member The High Road
...“Give not that which is holy unto the dogs, neither cast ye your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn again and rend you.”
Matthew 7:6

So hard it can be
to ......

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Categories: pearls before swine, symbolism,
Form: Free verse
Bubbles of Babble
...BUBBLES    OF    BABBLE

A father sees his small children babbling and  
Blowing insignificant bubbles in the wind.
One child's lips blow a lot;  another blows only very few.
Yet these few are precio......

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Categories: pearls before swine, allegory, prayer,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Telling Porkie Pies
...This saying is simply divine
“You shouldn’t cast pearls before swine”
Some think they are cool
Then break ev’ry rule
Folk cheating are no friends of mine!


'Porkie Pies' is cockne......

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Categories: pearls before swine, conflict, humorous, people,
Form: Limerick

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry



Premium Member Small Gifts: Contributing To Other's Happiness
...For each gift that you make to a man’s spirit,
Servant gift, not the kind that dishonor brings,
There’s a peace that comes soft. (Can your ears hear it?)
And the heart of the man soon forgets its ......

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Categories: pearls before swine, giving, memory,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Advent of Other Happy Endings
...Throughout 2016 I have been reading Rob Brezsny's Pronoia
Is The Antidote For Paranoia
now ending before I reach 2017.

This postmillennial bible of multiculturalism
ends with several questions ......

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Categories: pearls before swine, destiny, earth, health, humanity,
Form: Political Verse
Pain As a Hobby Iv
...You went off the screen 
Never to be seen 
Can’t find you on google
You don’t even tweet
Like Tweet 
I feel like smoking cigarettes 
No, I’d rather scream
But who will hear me 
Because it mak......

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Categories: pearls before swine, life, satire, words, hope,
Form:



Anticipation
...I have a capacity for love

that stretches every time he makes me

a dust-mote in the iridescent

ocean of eye-light.

I’m suspended in time and in 

place, yet I swell.

I know I could g......

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Categories: pearls before swine, lovetime, time, universe,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Don'T
...DOn't bite the hand that feeds you
Don't burn your bridge behind you
Don't cast your pearls before swine
Don't change horses in midstream 
Don't count your chickens before they are hatched.
Don'......

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Categories: pearls before swine, age,
Form: Alliteration
Pearls
...Unwise TO CAST PEARLS BEFORE SWINE.      ONE'S LABOR IS PERFECT WASTE.
   Don't cast your pearls of wisdom onto barren land.
   Where minds don't want to know, or even understand.
   Withhold wast......

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Categories: pearls before swine, wisdom,
Form: Alliteration
Faith Without Works
...Civil whoring: such architectural engineers of governmental grant of freedom.

Yea to bruise themselves,
lo, the magistrates
by way of horse-like member,
oh pearls before swine.

Wanting freed......

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Categories: pearls before swine, integrity, judgement,
Form: Free verse
All Is Well
...I drink and it didn't seem to take away the pain
I give my heart away it always ends up being ill treated all is well
If I cast my pearls before swine they will still be getting trampled still
I d......

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Categories: pearls before swine, blue,
Form:
Take a Gun
...Take a gun, give it to me
And just teach to pull the trigger.
My chimeras will be free
And my life will be a fee
For their happiness and freedom.

Give me arms and get away!
I won`t fail to hit my ta......

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Categories: pearls before swine, introspection, life, philosophy, me,
Form:
Premium Member Rain and Pearl Drops
...*Image of Globes provided by Pixabay.


rain and pearl drops

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(*rain drops
syllable-based; 5-3-5.)

rain weaves north current
clouds knot up
patterns burst their seam......

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© Hilo Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: pearls before swine, extended metaphor, imagery, perspective,
Form: Haiku
Pearls Before Swine
...home is where the heart is 
      I spewed forth my guts
laid open the treasure chest 
and offered up the crown jewels
while the swine cast
     their dung in the entrails......

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Categories: pearls before swine, anger, betrayal,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Unquotable Quotes: Liii - Tongue Teasers
...UNQUOTABLE QUOTES: LIII - Tongue Teasers

Whether the glass is « half full » or « half empty », what counts is WHO « drank" the "other half », the « better half » ? Lucky Devil !

« By hook or......

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: pearls before swine, animal, girl, humor, irony,
Form: Dramatic Monologue

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

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