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Familiarity Breeds Contempt
Familiarity Breeds Contempt Poems - Poems about Familiarity Breeds Contempt
Turning the maxim familiarity breeds contempt on it's head
...Turning the maxim familiarity breeds contempt on it's head... not just in time for Valentine's Day but the remaining days of our lives as the world turns on all our children the young and restle......
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Matthew Harris
Categories:
familiarity breeds contempt,
absence, adventure, anger, anniversary,
Form:
Free verse
The Husky Man
...The street dogs bark, children cry and run. .. Now the time is six o'clock in the morning. This time is the arrival of the husky man ......
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Balasubramaniyan Venkataramani
Categories:
familiarity breeds contempt,
6th grade,
Form:
Rhyme
Passion
...Passion Passion's born a wormy moon Laying waste our good intent... As desire brings forth a foolery Where we rile in love's torment. As novelty stokes our zeal And th......
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David Mchattie
Categories:
familiarity breeds contempt,
allegory, passion,
Form:
Rhyme
True Love
...Familiarity breeds contempt they say Just as absence makes the heart grow fonder Is this the reason couples fight and stray Seeking their true love way out yonder? 10/20/22......
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Robert Gorelick
Categories:
familiarity breeds contempt,
love,
Form:
Quatrain
Brevette Collaboration- All Welcome To Participate
...Familiarity breeds contempt. Silence is golden. Ignorance is bliss Yesterday I realised that these famous lines are Brevette. Brevette says much in just three words. Format is noun - ......
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Rama Balasubramanian
Categories:
familiarity breeds contempt,
10th grade, appreciation,
Form:
Verse
Rock Ribbed Dogmatic Secular Humanist
...Morality and self-fulfillment attainable without belief in God similarly yours truly would figuratively crane his credulity to ascertain Ichabod mentioned in first Book of Samuel as purported s......
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Matthew Harris
Categories:
familiarity breeds contempt,
10th grade, 11th grade,
Form:
Free verse
Poetry Judges 4- Contd
...planning and replanning all the freaking time twenty four seven who are you to judge the problem is you if you like some shoot you say it is good great write brilliant touching and all those crap......
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Francis Osho
Categories:
familiarity breeds contempt,
satire,
Form:
I do not know?
The Chisel
...Familiarity Can sometimes be A chisel That slowly chips away At human souls Stripping first the aura Then splintering The shiny, pearly shell To finally bear The red, raw meat That often b......
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Sandra Haight
Categories:
familiarity breeds contempt,
friendship, loss,
Form:
Free verse
Ebony Embers of Wallowing Ash
... "Ebony Embers of Wallowing Ash" flames of fire fuel black smoke walls tumble to ground like dark cloak Egypt burns in savage rebellion as human life perishes in ashen soak. tears of sadness......
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Linda-Marie Sweetheart
Categories:
familiarity breeds contempt,
war, urdu, war, night,
Form:
Rubaiyat
Loves Pieces
...Loves Pieces Like discarded shards of glass, the pieces of my heart Lay in broken disarray since we have been apart I loved you then, I love you now, what more can I say Did I hold you much to close......
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Bob Quigley
Categories:
familiarity breeds contempt,
lost lovelove, i love
Form:
Rhyme
Sunday Rememberance
...If I was a rich man I would buy up market friends Follow all the new trends Drive the latest Mercedes Benz Service myself with greed Consume more than I need But if I am honest to myself and tr......
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Christopher Flaherty
Categories:
familiarity breeds contempt,
lost lovelife, love, cancer,
Form:
Free verse
The Most Bitter Wine
...Sour grapes make for the most bitter wine. I drink from it daily Seeing lives I wish to lead Moments I wish were mine Familiarity breeds contempt Brewing this hatred inside No longer happy......
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Christina Larmon
Categories:
familiarity breeds contempt,
uplifting
Form:
Free verse
Politics and Politicians
...The good is evil and the evil is good; The omen is clear,yet,no one reads, The signal is up, still no one heeds, There is but one use of power, It is to save people, But all we hear of power is ......
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Nwando Obianyor
Categories:
familiarity breeds contempt,
black african american, depression,
Form:
Ode
Familiarity
...Familiarity breeds contempt, This is true but only as exception, Where familiarity is relation of dependence, Where it is formed out of group living, Instances of contempt are there, But they ar......
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Shishir Gupta
Categories:
familiarity breeds contempt,
Form:
Free verse
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