AN AVERAGE DAY DOWN AT THE FUNNY FARM
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Sir Billy Pig’s missing his oats
Miss Piggy Wig’s had hers, she gloats
But she’s looking so rough
Her bum’s full of crap stuff
Its output is brown and it floats!
I’m advised by...
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Categories:
pearls before swine, animal, farm, silly,
Form: Limerick
Pearls Before Swine
...So many pearls before the swine
He didn’t know which to pick
So fell asleep and dreamed to fly
Straight up to some Alpean peak
There he took selfies, drank high tea
And then he flew back home
D...
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Categories:
pearls before swine, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
The High Road
...“Give not that which is holy unto the dogs, neither cast ye your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn again and rend you.”
Matthew 7:6
So hard it can be
to ...
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Categories:
pearls before swine, symbolism,
Form: Free verse
Rain and Pearl Drops
...*Image of Globes provided by Pixabay.
rain and pearl drops
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(*rain drops
syllable-based; 5-3-5.)
rain weaves north current
clouds knot up
patterns burst their seam...
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Categories:
pearls before swine, extended metaphor, imagery, perspective,
Form: Haiku
Pearls Before Swine
...Drove past your old house, slowin' just because..
perhaps just to return to scene of the crime.
Kinda sad to find nothing left as once was,
proof your lapdog better comfort than I.
Came to set...
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Categories:
pearls before swine, absence, appreciation, life, lost
Form: Rhyme
The Echo Returns Not
...We see their subterfuge
A low animal cunning
Geniality a camouflage
Deviousness concealing
We recognise but judge not
For as at this coordinate
Moving in a narrow ego slot
Baser instincts ...
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Categories:
pearls before swine, perspective, spiritual, wisdom,
Form: Rhyme
Unquotable Quotes: Liii - Tongue Teasers
...UNQUOTABLE QUOTES: LIII - Tongue Teasers
Whether the glass is « half full » or « half empty », what counts is WHO « drank" the "other half », the « better half » ? Lucky Devil !
« By hook or...
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Categories:
pearls before swine, animal, girl, humor, irony,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Telling Porkie Pies
...This saying is simply divine
“You shouldn’t cast pearls before swine”
Some think they are cool
Then break ev’ry rule
Folk cheating are no friends of mine!
'Porkie Pies' is cockne...
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Categories:
pearls before swine, conflict, humorous, people,
Form: Limerick
Advent of Other Happy Endings
...Throughout 2016 I have been reading Rob Brezsny's Pronoia
Is The Antidote For Paranoia
now ending before I reach 2017.
This postmillennial bible of multiculturalism
ends with several questions ...
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Categories:
pearls before swine, destiny, earth, health, humanity,
Form: Political Verse
Faith Without Works
...Civil whoring: such architectural engineers of governmental grant of freedom.
Yea to bruise themselves,
lo, the magistrates
by way of horse-like member,
oh pearls before swine.
Wanting freed...
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Categories:
pearls before swine, integrity, judgement,
Form: Free verse
Pearls
...Unwise TO CAST PEARLS BEFORE SWINE. ONE'S LABOR IS PERFECT WASTE.
Don't cast your pearls of wisdom onto barren land.
Where minds don't want to know, or even understand.
Withhold wast...
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Categories:
pearls before swine, wisdom,
Form: Alliteration
All Is Well
...I drink and it didn't seem to take away the pain
I give my heart away it always ends up being ill treated all is well
If I cast my pearls before swine they will still be getting trampled still
I d...
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Categories:
pearls before swine, blue,
Form: I do not know?
Small Gifts: Contributing To Other's Happiness
...For each gift that you make to a man’s spirit,
Servant gift, not the kind that dishonor brings,
There’s a peace that comes soft. (Can your ears hear it?)
And the heart of the man soon forgets its ...
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Categories:
pearls before swine, giving, memory,
Form: Rhyme
Don'T
...DOn't bite the hand that feeds you
Don't burn your bridge behind you
Don't cast your pearls before swine
Don't change horses in midstream
Don't count your chickens before they are hatched.
Don'...
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Categories:
pearls before swine, age,
Form: Alliteration
Pearls Before Swine
...home is where the heart is
I spewed forth my guts
laid open the treasure chest
and offered up the crown jewels
while the swine cast
their dung in the entrails...
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Categories:
pearls before swine, anger, betrayal,
Form: Free verse
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