Best Upset The Apple Cart Poems

Peewee Orange upset the apple cart
                                For Mr. Adam who had a apple mart
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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't cross the bridge till you to it 
Don't cut off your nose to spite your face.
Don't...

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This old man he was nothing special you say
That very well maybe be you see
Cause he never did set any records for anybody to read about
I don't think he even started any arguments or fights 
If you ask no one knows anything at all about...

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Venom of the serpentines
Runs in one’s fleshly blood streams

Deficiency of the spleen
Or blame all on a bad dream

Poisons do twist the mind’s seams 
Illusions of children’s dreams

Images always of schemes
Listen to the children’s dreams

Skip a rope, soap a poor dope
Morality runs down slope

How long must...

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Local Newspaper Caper

To local newspaper will not subscribe again
Now no longer put any of my new poems in
Which people in past loved reading greatly
But in paper are not there as of lately.

To me. people are singing the same old song;
This time what again have you...

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They rolled along the dirty road,
With apples fresh among the load.
They stopped a mile from the mart,
As I upset the apple cart,

I stood in front as if to stop,
Causing all the fruit to drop,
Telling where the road had led,
And warned of dangers up ahead.

Told my...

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Whatta strange breed us humans are
Never satisfied, must upset the apple cart
Can't we all get along
Just sing happy songs
Biologically speaking, we all possess loving hearts


© Jack Ellison 2015...

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Sit back, relax 
Everything will be fine
Enjoy what you see on T.V.
Forget the daily grind

We're here so you'll feel better
Make it all alright
Use the slightest bit of truth
We do it all the time

No need to concern yourself
With the government's affairs
What you don't know want hurt...

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Run Through in Babylon

Friends, I wish to speak, 
but they have cut out my tongue. 
So I fumble...

Instead,
I hear your words, they are strong, 
and your passion true. 
However, it is the content of which, 
I would have stated my thoughts, 
provoked from despair,
into a...

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#Hashtag

Did your seriously just hashtag a hashtag
Is something like that even allowed
People will be tripping over themselves
You really know how to rile up a crowd

Your bringing all that is known to the tipping point
What's left of what's sane to the brink
Turning civilization onto its head
Before...

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How do I know you're a poet
By the very words you sow
From the highest high of all the highs
To the deepest depths below
The way you pour out your heart
In every syllable as they flow
That is how I know you hold to
The poet in your soul

How...

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Finally put down those bad habits 
Upset that apple cart 
Swore off all the things that I 
Swore I'd never start 

When you're out there playing young and dumb 
Thinking you can handle it 
That's when the devil comes along 
With a mighty grip 

Placing...

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Whatta strange breed we humans are
Never satisfied, must upset the apple cart
Can't we all get along
Just sing happy songs
Biologically we possess the same loving heart...

Continue reading...

Whatta strange breed us humans are
Never satisfied, must upset the apple cart
Can't we all get along
Just sing happy songs
Biologically we possess the same loving heart...

Continue reading...