Short Cliché Poems

Cliché
                                 Leash eh?





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Wisdom: a cliché,   
a soul left undernourished    
as ignorance gloats....

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Archie Bunker
Clumsy clunker
  Sunk in neurotic funk
  Lord of the manor of cliché-ridden junk...

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Time, time is the cliché.
Time decides how we live,
Time is short, things take time,
Lost time. 
It's time to defy time....

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It's the truest cliché
and the cruellest
life is not a dress rehearsal
we're all born 
on the big stage
of no
second chance....

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Love has been made cliché
The words won't mean anything to you
So instead, I'll give you a squeeze
And hope that the message comes through...

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Shad Coll 
It’s about collecting shadows
The woman’s dad died
She gained another shadow
It descended upon her
Dark cloud cliché
One of many...

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Donuts are not solely for cops,
While monitoring traffic stops,
Although a cliché
The truth I convey;
They're great too, for kids, moms, and pops!...

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Being a son
of beauty and
inspiration, I am
poet friend
of the beautiful colors ...
but not  any  cliché ... just
screen inspiring colors
from Monet ......

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Live life to the full...count the blessings and drop the cliché.


Contest: The Glass is Always Full
Sponsor: Alexis Y.
Placed 1st
Dated 13 June 2017...

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her sudden untimely death left her speechless ~ silence is golden

Cliché: Cat got your tongue?

January 5, 2018
Contest: Monoku 5: Cliché
sponsor: Silent One...

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Cliché is my editor’s only 
enemy. He lives, entirely 
his own life, upon the sea 
of muses where this C-
word is not to be 
used by any 
editor 
just like 
me...

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from the cloud's
white hair
beard hangs
ice

fridged
ridged
from
delight

from snow
to rain
with warmth
comes

cliché
tears of joy
and a storm
of passion...

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“Forever and a day” is surely a cliché
It flows so trippingly, by the way,
The older I get the more I realize
Not many phrases left to utilize.

written September 30, 2021...

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cliché cocked

                              packing preloaded words

                                  eye on the kill shot
                                    






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he begged for money ~feds followed him home~ and now he's behind bars 










Cliché Used: What goes around 
comes around 
Contest: Monoku 5- Cliché
Sponsor: Silent One...

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beauty rises from ash when life is lived in grace; find your faith in hope.



I chose cliché: "Every cloud has a silver lining"

Monoku 5: Cliché
Sponsor: Silent One
January 5th, 2018...

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Just received a notice by email today
Seems I've just inherited a million dollars olé
Now have friends galore
A silly scam for sure
Following the money is an real old cliché


© Jack Ellison 2015...

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"waiting for Waits"


here i stand 
but rather
sit and

with a cliché
bottle in front
of me instead 

of a
frontal
lobotomy

making the state
ment that truly
it is the piano

that has 
and
is

drinking...

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Let’s celebrate Jack Horne’s birthday
By shouting out hip hip hooray
May the fourth be with you
In everything that you do
Please excuse the Star Wars cliché!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY DEAR FRIEND

4TH MAY 2020...

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A rhyme a hymn a prose
a little horny rose 
a cliché 
long walks on the beach
swimming 
splashing 
wet hair in hand 
mouth under water 
she begins to descend
lost to the currents 
lands back side up on land
should have let me be...

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Who is he who delivers, no delay?
Who is he, worthy of seeking? Rejoice
O my soul, this rainbow is no cliché.
Let us bow down, in communion, one voice.

10/10/2020
Contest: Rithimus Divisa 9
Sponsor: Gregory Barden
Original poem: Savior...

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To capture a moment forever 
Not in a photo, for real
Would mean we could live it together 
That, for me, would be ideal
I never want to be apart
I know that must sound so cliché 
But I mean it with all true sincerity 
To you all my days I'd convey...

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What’d
I miss?
Clue me in!
Deer in headlights…
Asleep at the wheel.
By all means…after you.
Plain as the nose on your face.
Ashes to ashes, dust to dust -
November the third  w a s  cliché day!

11/7/2022
A November Nonet
Sponsor: Andrea Dietrich...

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A mean sentence written in the eyes
Of accountants and prison wardens
Blood-thirsty with night sticks brim
-ming with electric hate laughing
in empty rooms glasses slide and
break the walls of time cliché into
mirrors of fascination and grievance
levitate voices speaking sand…...

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