Short Cliched Poems

"Life is short!" Cliched.
But true. Each day that goes by
Is never regained...

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figures
     of speech
cliched
sterile
out of place
retrospective
        maxims:
a repertoire
of snippets,
a collage
of the impermanent
in a 
    play filled
assemblage...
     ....inscribed...

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shackled
daily wager
sweat of brow not so sweet
muscle and sinews strain, work out
to earn dough for bread, and to work out, too
cyclic diurnal grind of life
cliched, i know, but true
god's creation
enchained...

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Poetry

It is our dreams and failures,

It sounds like the rain and thunder,

It looks like the calm before the storm,

It feels like a never-ending rollercoaster,

It makes me feel sick.




thanks to Karen O'Leary for her great writing exercise....

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Tackled by a stutter murmur of Deus.
The praying ended and packed as threats.
Err, umm, uhh, were cliched by vomits. 
Grasped all the needs and rusty flirts. 
Prune back Sheoak! The cutest green pine.
Pity Sheoak no more green crown again.
Where are Quechua and Sherpa? They go....

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figures
     of speech
cliched

retrospective
        maxims

a repertoire
of snippets

a collage
of the impermanent

 a 
    play filled
assemblage...
     ....inscribed

   interaction
of parody and
             sentiment..
all
in wordplay:
interspersed
&
crafted
with sensibilities...

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The future made a face at at me
I made a face back at the future

If fate did smile my way
I wyly smiled back at her

Don't mention Karma to me..
They use deragatory terms
In reference to her... ways

Am born of Destiny..
Unto me a path Ordained

Speading wings like an eagle
I do love so soar cloud high.....

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I am writing to tell you
that I don't love you.
I never did.
I never will.
I don't miss you at all.

The truth is,
I never found your adoration
anything but arduous.
Your kindess cliched.
Your compliments thoughtless.

And it has become obvious to me
that your love for me
was merely infatuation
with who you thought I could be....

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*Image of Shoreline Sunset by Pixabay.

Moonlighting In June

Doctor Jekyll's special starling,
shortly pealed off, started snarling,
molting inside,
till speaks Miss. Hyde,
"Tough to be out cliched, darling."

2022 June 04
*9th Place*
The Moon in June (Choose One of Five Forms)
~~Andrea Dietrich: Judged 2022 June 12

*HMS: 8,8,4,4,8...

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Life is like a door without a key 
It’s the truth starring you right 
In the eyes that you’ve refused to see
Simply open the door and walk boldly
Into the unknown where you’ll go from 
There who knows take a leap of faith 
Beat the odds and win the race this
Life is truly great and it may sound 
cliched but don’t hesitate because 
You are the master of your own fate !...

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deeper-day-dreaming. 

was he not a confident lover?

disheveled-darning-dominant.

confidence is not letting what may be disheveled in you get so deep that it dominates 

so by day, be daring.

dream.

he transformed into all she needed.

he was all she needed. 

cliched or not, it all happened for them overnight.

he made his great-grandparents proud

after explaining "what you felt in that moment"...

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