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Conventional Wisdom
Conventional Wisdom Poems - Poems about Conventional Wisdom
AI - A Cautionary Tale
...A happier couple, you could never see. One blessed day, they would be three. They'd enjoy a picnic in a park or beach, Joe and his wife, Molly, a lovely peach. I would say their lives were very......
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David Crandall
Categories:
conventional wisdom,
humor, technology,
Form:
Rhyme
Chihuahua Speech 2
...The first lesson learned from a Chihuahua was that I must please God at all cost. I had no idea there would be a second lesson. This time the Chihuahua was not talking by barking. The master ......
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©
Curtis Johnson
Categories:
conventional wisdom,
dog, god,
Form:
Narrative
There and Back Again
...I’m my mind I could recall All those friends faces Almost hear voices as I sat in old loved places A callow youth when I arrived, A misfit out of time and place, Trying but not quite succeedin......
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©
Terry Ireland
Categories:
conventional wisdom,
bereavement, emotions, growing up,
Form:
Rhyme
Poetic Voice
...My style is not refined And that might be how I'm defined Though conventional wisdom I defied It's in the heart of poetry I reside My heart bursts with words All I want is my soul to be heard ......
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Christopher Goss
Categories:
conventional wisdom,
appreciation, how i feel,
Form:
Free verse
Fascination
...ckering beauty Enticing force To draw ever closer suddenly, I'm toast. Succumb to attraction is to draw to the heat. Conventional wisdom calls for retreat. If I soar ever upward away fro......
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©
Val Jennings
Categories:
conventional wisdom,
wisdom,
Form:
Rhyme
The Lack of Luck
...Hours morning, hours evening, With hope, cling; without hope, cling Man without shape gets anything, Yours for pay be nothing, If you lay on all thing. The universe is a univerasal daughter, Each ma......
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©
Sila Muthoka
Categories:
conventional wisdom,
inspirational, dance, water, dance,
Form:
Carpe Diem
A Semantic Shield
...A kind of cultural sensitivity, that strengthens discovery; a space for identity and history. It’s a style of thought, chosen to highlight its core; A lengthy discourse that acts and synthes......
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©
Mark Escobar
Categories:
conventional wisdom,
life,
Form:
Narrative
Putting On Pants One Leg At a Time
...He Puts His Pants on One Leg at a Time By Elton Camp This is a flip expression that I’ve always hated For to demean somebody’s success it is related This bit of conventional wisdom is made ......
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Elton Camp
Categories:
conventional wisdom,
funny,
Form:
Rhyme
Conventional Wisdom
...Conventional wisdom means: Compliments Smiles Artificial flowers Restraint and order It’s like an English garden Trimmed and accurate Where nature is masked And curves are beaten It’s like an artific......
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©
Viola Neurologist
Categories:
conventional wisdom,
art, fantasy, wisdom,
Form:
Lyric
A Free Verse Universe
...We live in a free verse universe. And yet, some want conformity when it serves their own purpose. Societal rules do not apply to all. The only thing that is consistent is the inconsistency of ......
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©
Joe Flach
Categories:
conventional wisdom,
introspection, life
Form:
Free verse
Pigskin Precept From Vincent.
..."You must go fourth and one!" They all shout. while conventional wisdom they flout Yet Lombardi once said: "Never waver, instead, put the three on the board and get out."......
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©
Gerard Keogh Jr.
Categories:
conventional wisdom,
people, sports
Form:
Limerick
An Adage "if One and Two.." Expands From Three To Ten.
...If one is a coincidence, and two is a trend. Then... Three is an emerging pattern. Four is a set schedule. Five is an unwritten rule. Six is conventional wisdom. Seven is accepted practice. ......
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Gerard Keogh Jr.
Categories:
conventional wisdom,
on writing and words,
Form:
I do not know?
Pi - Inspired By the Movie
...THREE year olds know about circles. They play ring around the rosy and here we go round the mulberry bush. And if one should say that in reality nowhere is found a perfect circle, they either don’t ......
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©
Nancy Jones
Categories:
conventional wisdom,
death, faith, history, life,
Form:
Chant Royal