Long Cut and dried Poems

Dear Novice Poet,
Welcome to the wide open wonderful world of poetry!  Today more than ever before, a poem can easily be whatever you want it to be.  The rules are simple.  There...

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"Reigning Cats and Dogs"   Posted 6 Dec 2020

the difference between dogs and cats is      dogs have owners, cats have staff 

who's supposed to read the signs that say...

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*Aphorisms/ Idiomatic expressions*
(Short, pithy, instructive sayings passed down through the years)
Composed: by Tom Wright
7/12/2018

The man who coined the aphorism “Seize the Day”
Didn’t always mean “The Ends Justify the Means” but may.
Many have said “Rules Were...

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Reclining within spring's bouquet
she thought,” Please stay, don't rush away,
I so enjoy, these blooms of May."

This maiden who boldly proclaimed
wished only for sweet azure sky
upon which white clouds could be framed
without knowing the reasons why.

Yet,...

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At birth, the first thing we do is cry.
Once we reach home, in the cradle we lie. 
Then we get bored and give our legs a try.
As infants, it’s all about me and my.

Soon, it...

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They all pranced through some broad-like avenue
and they've placed apart from each other's course
proved they stood full of airs and graces view
from cameras balanced by those they knew
endmost part of the resplendent concourse

Those cut-and-dried to...

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Sound of sea is locked within seashell beached
Just lift a shell to your ear to hear sea sigh.

Morn is locked within dawns red sky horizon
Like flower bud bursts into daybreak.

Sap and sinew of living tree...

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Never I can forget that day,
memories remain fresh, as if
it happened only yesterday.

I didn't expect you would open
up your mind with such lovely thought;
Flow of words was like a poem;
Tells me from life what...

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When it comes to being  romantic
The French have it cut and dried
When they whisper je t'aime
You feel so good  inside
 
The italians  are no  slouch
When its their turn to say
Cara mia, ti voglio bene
It turns my...

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Did you suspect the quark, in the dark knit-work of matter?
Did you unravel the mysteries of the pyramids?
Did you guess the coral, seahorse and pearl, in the waters deep?
Did you identify the drowning children behind...

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Make Jesus Your Guide
Written: by Miracle Man
11-1-2019

My life has been a road,
that has lead many places.
I’ve encountered speed bumps,
and seen anonymous faces.

I’ve faced some mountains,
with seemingly no descending side.
Often searching for answers,
finding nothing cut and...

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To those who soak up the slanted slop from Fox
Isn’t it time you switched off your black box,
Or, changed to a channel espousing the facts--
All the things your "balanced TV News” surely lacks
I challenge you...

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The Judge

Accused and accuser, a battle for life,
Abused and abuser, a husband and wife,
Thieves and robbers, the unjust takers,
Pushers, druggies, and even drug makers,

Quickly I decide the fates of these,
The server of justice, respect me...

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When all is said and done - my son
When all is done and said
There's nothing more to be done - my son
And nothing more to be said.

When all is cut and dried - my girl
When...

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In the battle of thought and love
Of the mind and of the heart
Are they the same; like sand and mud?
Like ice and water are hand and glove?
Are maybe a lot further apart!

I have heard it...

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The curvature of the eye, 
marred by irregularity, distorts.

Rain falling through the aqueous orb
of eye or earth prisms, 
propelling points of light skyward, 
producing rainbows.

Sunlight following by the curve
curls rising ever skyward
from the steaming surface
of...

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Wrong...Right...
Black and White...
Do imps 'n'angels fight
in light of day...dark of night?
The evil to hell...the rest - heaven's delight...
is all cut and dried or are there shades of gray in sight?
Sunday school's doctrine belief: follow the...

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If You Were Me What Would You Do?
To You It's All Cut and Dried.
I'd like You to Walk in My Shoes,
Then Tell Me, You Haven't Died Inside.

You Have No Way to Measure
The Pain I Find...

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Somewhere in youth I strayed from truth.
And grew up to not have much couth.
The door bell rang the onus chime.
Snuck out the back to bide some time.

I wandered streets in every bar.
It's not a wonder...

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Is it a new phenomenon,
Known to the world
Through Beckett and Camus?
Sophocles long ago
Heard it on the Aegean.

Oedipus, Bhartrhari, Buddha—all,
Over a period of intense suffering,
Learnt to cope with it,
Each resorting to a different praxis.
King Dasaratha perhaps...

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I want this venture to spread wide 
And her first walk a giant stride.
So, let's face things from every side,
Checking, wisely, losing man's pride...

Some had this tried and later cried 
For lent ears to cut...

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