Misquote Poems - Poems about Misquote

resorts of the mind

...Here at our rooftop, collegiate, ‘resort of the mind,’
an early heatwave has struck - we’ve been advised.
Like we needed it. It’s 94°f and climbing - we’re not insensitive.
We’re aware that the su...

And That Was It

...So this is how it ends, then —
Not with thunder, not with rain,
But with a sentence cold and plain,
And me, standing in the ache again.

I had said, “This is my last try,”
With every ounce of l...

Buddy Hi-Di-Ho Santy

...Buddha meets ... that is strange,
Announce the meet ... strange the more,
Buddha meets ... not so strange,
Announce misquote ... Buddha just wrote,
Though history ... Buddha's story, 
Timing bit...

Hobble On Cassidy

...Trump and Rudy were watching an oater
Thinking up ways to find one more voter
"Hobble on Cassidy
Drives herd mentality
Let's misquote her and find a promoter!"...

Passion

...Black and blue our flowers will bloom
With seas and skies of certain doom
You dare to dream of death it seems
Separate yourself from selfish dreams
Where you peep through certain holes
And see a...

A Morning Walk

...A bunch of dry lime leaves like schoolkids runs 
across the street. Be careful, do not slip
on crispy morning frost. I see someone’s
bike on its side, its owner rubs his hip.

Are you okay? He i...

Swimming In a Pool of Error

...In my head, alcohol and its pall for callousness call
Emboldened by froth and wrath
In a show of gangrene gall in a mall
To distort my faith and misquote my oath.

Emboldened by froth and wrath
...

Examinations a Devil Part 1

...Dear students Examinations denote
That you and teachers clearly emote
Their feelings out and try to devote
Their time and energy for this rowboat.
Mind that nurtures it will surely vote
Their su...

On Readers Digest 4

...Dear readers, Reader’s Digests denote
That readers read and clearly emote
Their feelings out and try to devote
Their money and time for this rowboat.
The mind that reads it will surely vote
Thei...

The Gift of Abandonment

...The fantasy: 
of moving in a circle, 
taking a flower bath. A metaphysical 
misquote. You were losing 
your identity.

There was no abstract folly. 
I will protect all the concrete truths.

...

Love of Money

...Love of Money
Dr. James E. Martin
©March, 2014

Money is the root of all evil
Many try to intelligently say.
They sadly misquote the text
And cause many to from truth turn away.

Money is no...

Insurge

...Though comatose,
 i reflect on those,
grim spirits of disaster,
some do claim Abraham an Moses,
That God is yet their master,

Slaughter cannot be divine,
a bloody karmic pantomime,
the will ...

The Three Little Wigs

...White and powdered dressed in black coats                                                                       Upholding lawlessness with finesse         		                                          ...

Governance

..."Men are governed by lines of intellect,
women by curves of emotion" *

or

might I have it incorrect
and really mean to say

that 

men are governed by women's curves,
and women by men's ...

On Love

...Upon lovers
it dawned
that Love
turns on
everything
and it comes
in all forms
fit for
everyone
there is not
“just one”
but rather
many
for in the land
of Love is Plenty
and simply put
...

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