Cliches Poems - Poems about Cliches

...The name mistakenly saintly, the other one a rite-of-life, a gauche passage for some, for most the contract costly, imprints its meaning post firey baptismal dive to rise again somehow......Read the rest...

...While looking up into the blackness; past this now leafless canopy Fires are simply burning; within their own realms of infinity Wonderous twinkling is intertwined in the branches repeatedl......Read the rest...

...Mightier than the sword they say This weapon of mass description. Little changed for centuries Through dip, fill, refill, magic. Trailing on paper A story of where once was, Telling a story......Read the rest...

...Imaginations fun and free From simple things to really fancy Your mind escapes somewhere new Like when pigs are flying over you Wings spread out sharing the sky With large elephants way up high......Read the rest...

...(Soliloquoy : An act of speaking one's thoughts aloud when by oneself or regardless of any hearers, especially by a character in a play.) Mark a book, book a mark. Not every household has the......Read the rest...

...Though still as loving, still as kind and gentle, still as beautiful as they were in days of yore… today’s grandmas are a different breed than the grandmas who came before. Although they still sh......Read the rest...

...I choked on a lemon possessed by a demon. I coughed and I coughed; it wasn’t enough. I called on my mother, but she couldn’t bother to come to my aid, or that’s what she said. I started to sw......Read the rest...

...How can one ever describe real love An all consuming ache for someone A feeling that's difficult to describe in words It defies cliches and interpretations In reality it captures the ho......Read the rest...

...** Nigh Another Birthday ** I’ve passed so many birthdays, That a few dozen of those special days Fall away in a gray haze, With too many forgotten by everyone (then or lately), And wer......Read the rest...

...When you are hell-bent to fold your tents That's when your ship comes in heaven-sent They say things are darkest before the dawn breaks worse than rhyming cliches for g......Read the rest...

...We were not there to welcome them home but came later in the long evenings when nightmares ravaged their sleep. Peace had walled in the horrors hiding in the heads of good men. Big blocks g......Read the rest...

...Shout it out loud I'm black and I'm proud I use Afro-Sheen to keep my hair clean... Thirty years old, YOU're over the hill I know, I'M enlightened I drop acid an......Read the rest...

...I rest my case on a house of cards (that) hit the nail on the head (of) the nail in the coffin (that) hit the ground running where the rubber hits the road (while) time flies when you’re hav......Read the rest...

...See me I’m here… right here Why won’t you see me? I wrote the most beautiful story I guess you’ll never hear it It wasn’t about you… well maybe a little about you Ok the whole damn thing I can......Read the rest...

...This is what we should say. "God bless Negative Normans today, Bless them on their way." Far better than catty cliches!......Read the rest...