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Premium Member That's What They Say
They say...

Still waters run deep...
Then why are there so many shallow people?

When it rains it pours...
Usually the day after I wash my truck.

Walk softly and carry a big stick...
Or walk hard and carry a small...

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Categories: bird in the hand is worth two in the bush, america, cheer up,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member If When How Where Who And Why?
Why do they say

you can't take money with you when you go?
So what do you do if you go out shopping?

The grass is 'always greener on the other side?
Not if you have a sandy beach...

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© Peter Dome  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: bird in the hand is worth two in the bush, confusion, crazy, funny, riddle,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Stupid Sayings
They claim the grass
Is always greener on the other side
But there is no grass just a beach and the tide
They say you never know whats around the corner
I do big Ada she's rough I have...

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© Peter Dome  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: bird in the hand is worth two in the bush, funny, giggle, hilarious, humor, humorous, nonsense, satire,
Form: Free verse
Untitled
How to be real with urself?
What is keeping me here?
Love or happiness?
My love for her spans 12 years
Memories are abundant
Good times & bad
We have lost a child to God
Guilt for wanting to leave fills my...

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Categories: bird in the hand is worth two in the bush, anxiety, conflict, confusion, deep, desire, divorce, family,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Goodnight
I thought you were lying beside me
I was so warm in your embrace , side
By side not a care in the world just you 
And me, king size bed, guy and girl

But when I awoke...

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Categories: bird in the hand is worth two in the bush, absence,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Stupid Things People Say
Stupid Things People Say.
.
Stupid things people say
I hear them every day
.
Is it the weather or me?
How do you want your tea
In or out
Well it make more sense to have it in a cup 
To me
.
Is...

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© Peter Dome  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: bird in the hand is worth two in the bush, angst, irony, people,
Form: Free verse
A Monoku Compilation - Playing With Cliche's
PLAYING WITH CLICHÉS
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recycle plastics... what goes around comes around
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thirty-six twenty-four thirty-six... fit as a fiddle
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where there's muck there's money... all that glitters isn't gold
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see the facts... use a mirror... don’t get your knickers in a...

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Categories: bird in the hand is worth two in the bush, word play,
Form: Monoku
The Burning Bush
“The Burning Bush” 

At the Burning Bush
the dance cards 
were passed 
from palm to palm 
the flowers plucked
from the wall by green
lounge lizards grinning
“music saved my life”, she said
“poetic”, the Comme des Garçons  
like...

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Categories: bird in the hand is worth two in the bush, muse,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Cliches Debunked
To 'ride on somebody's coat tails'
Is the most dangerous thing you can do
'Keep a stiff upper lip' is another cliché
Mine's not stiff, how about you?

'One good turn deserves another'
Turns my stomach if you must ask
'There's...

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Categories: bird in the hand is worth two in the bush, happiness, humorous, old, bird, bird, old,
Form: Quatrain
She's Out of My Life
Jealousy, greed, or something in between.
A belated response: my chance has already been.

A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush -
you being with him reminds me of the path I should’ve took.

A...

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© Lee Price  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: bird in the hand is worth two in the bush, girlfriend-boyfriend, lost love, love, nostalgia, passion, sad
Form: Couplet
Adages
A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush
But man is slaved to fate,
No fun or spontaneity
Unless you speculate

You can’t keep a good man down
The candle’s sturdy wick,
Yet alcohol and ageing
Seems to do...

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© Tony Bush  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: bird in the hand is worth two in the bush, funny, life,
Form: Verse
Cliches
Somebody told me that cliches are dead
But what if I run out of things to say
Can I say "to know me is to love me"
Or "tomorrow is just another day"

What about "liars never prosper and...

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© Larry Belt  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: bird in the hand is worth two in the bush, funnyme,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Reflection on the Important Things