Maxims Poems

Strength Does Not Always Roar

Fragility is quite a strength
just as the crucial bumblebees’ breath
Perhaps not only titularly
gentleness is stronger than severity . . .

Channeling Emily Dickinson : To be a feather in a holocaust
– hope, sewn in the soul, sings the song needed most

A minor thought on regeneration : To regrow the leg the mantis lost
– a marvel on

More Maxims

Man cannot be woman,
woman cannot be man,
if man thinks he is woman,
he is already damned.

We all have opinions,
estimations and thoughts,
but if God says otherwise,
our feelings matter naught.

Trying to live by feeling
is a failing of youth,
the world cares not for your likes,
a grown mind lives with truth.

Blaming faults on other
is a quick road to hell,
never think

Medieval Poetry Translations VI by Michael R Burch

These are English translations/modernizations of Medieval poems written in Old English and Middle English.

Exeter Book Gnomic Verses or Maxims
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

The dragon dwells under the dolmen,
wizened-wise, hoarding his treasure;
the fishes bring forth their finned kind;
the king in his halls distributes rings;
the bear stalks the heath, shaggy and malevolent.

Frost shall freeze,
fire feast on

The Maxims

Haiku Maxim for Everyday Life

HAIKU MAXIMS FOR EVERYDAY TRANSACTIONS      

To deal with someone 
Don’t volunteer the problem
Let them ask for it

When you want to get
All the results in one time
Get the checklist once

If you want trouble
Create enemies, but if 
Not, create friendships 

Maxims

There are some who say that marriage is old-school and out of style…
Yet single-parent families still devastate the child.

Some claim that the old writers are problematic, their works should burn…
But human nature doesn’t change and the old lessons we must learn.

Others would disown history if our morals it does not fit…
Not see the mistakes made

Aphorisms

Does your conniption fit?

If it's not a laughing matter, then it's not important. 

Did you ever notice that when you stir a glass of something, the spoon says, "Jibiddy jibiddy jibiddy jibiddy"?

Worst first name of anyone I ever met: Schmedroy.

Maxims

Wit shapes funny fit
Jigsaw puzzle bits


As you freely leap 
Don't you fall asleep


Tell the plain truth well
Watch gaudy lies dwell


Watch wild wonder well
Timely treasure tells


Destiny moves fate
Glimpse that open gate


Can less be more here
Craft lines that string cheer




Leon Enriquez
05 October 2018
Singapore

Maxims 3

Live well each day
Prize thus fond play


Love all you meet
Greet with smiles sweet


Words sometimes fail
To blaze true trail


Be of good cheer
Faith scares harsh fear


Look out and see
Love helps you be


Eye to eye then
You know not when


In a swift turn
The pyre now burns


Seek yo know truth
Then live fine proof




Leon Enriquez
03 November 2016
Singapore

Maxims 2

Speak your plain truth
Let act sign proof


Dare then to be
Love now set free


Pleasure knows pain
Yet not in vain


Beauty says much
In poignant touch


Come ink fine draft
As words move craft


Let will find thrill
The way you feel


Heart knows fine start
Ink stains move art





Leon Enriquez
30 October 2016
Singapore

Maxims

Dare to live well:
Watch how time tells.

~~~~~~~~~


Live without fear:
Love holds you dear.

~~~~~~~~~


The way you see:
Choice comes to be.

~~~~~~~~~


Love moves all things:
Watch moments fling.

~~~~~~~~~


Focus and see:
Set clear thought free.

~~~~~~~~~


Feel peace of mind:
Keep sync in kind.

~~~~~~~~~


A maxim clear:
Live zesty cheer.

~~~~~~~~~




Leon Enriquez
05 October 2016
Singapore

Apollo's Maxims

Apollo, 
God of prophecy, music and eloquence
Had advised Man two things he had to do
In order the truth of things to discover
And as a result to see the world anew:

"Know Thyself" and " Nothing in Excess"
The son of Zeus emphatically declared
In that way the path to wisdom you find
Thus better for you it is to

Family Maxims

Love one and all: "Live, love and laugh" --
Bear with life's gall; health bears all stuff.


"I love you" works to sculpt pure scope,
Boost joy's pure jerk; keep faith's kind hope.


Learn to say "Please", "Thank you" is good,
Pay your own lease; control your moods.


Focus your plans, live well each day,
Share all you can; work, rest and

Maxims

I.	no one cares.
II.	was never your fault to begin with.

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