Short Idioms Poems

I would love to
speak all languages
except  the one of the vipers...!...

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To cut the long story short  He sponsored one line contests



Funny One Liner Contest for Silent One : )
Hope it makes the sponsor smile....

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A penny for your thoughts
Bothered and pained
Caught between two stools
Drastic times call for drastic measures
Every cloud has a silver lining so
Free your mind from worries.....

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Some say “broken picture” instead of “broken record”
Let's get our idioms straight to avoid the literary hoards
Kinda humorous though
Turned my crank, don't ya know
Holy doo doo, this old duffer is really bored!...

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Saucers knitting 
their idioms 
on the rolling hills, 
bumping and bashing 
as they scramble 
to lay their thoughts down well. 
One skittered into a rock, 
     the other tripped, 
crashing down 
   upon his pal 
and both shattered 
      as they hit the ground....

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The ancient times,
Buried the Genesis 
Of today's psyches,
Recycled but deformed,
Stale and stinking- 
Evolutionary idioms?
The visual décor
And the packaging
Of rotten, 
Oh no, The heaven
Ruined with the billowing smokes,
Hiding the power of Sun,
Drumming the catastrophe....

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white thrush and white crow
fight which one's biggest outcast -
black sheep watches them

*The idioms “white thrush” (merle blanc) in French and “white crow” (belaya vorona) in Russian correspond to “black sheep” in English.

11.07.2019
Black Sheep Poetry Contest
Sponsored by: Anthony Slausin...

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The access to our dwelling
cascade
Love and...

leftovers
of a ray of light 
and blackness...

dubious sentiment
evermore
toward and aside 
from each other...

a double face within a frolic
in fearless truths

hatched from the 
cust of the heart
foreseen

Written: September 30, 2022...

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I will walk at eleven.
Easy trip, short, sweet ramble
Down to the creek, midheaven
Is close, just a short amble.

Where the sparse, sweet trillium
Grows, also lofty goshawk
Whose flights are like idioms.
Join me, love, where I will walk!
    

Written: 05/14/2023
Ae Freislighe poetry form...

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E-arnestly speak wisdom, 
R-egarding any matter; 
I-ntelligence in idioms
N-ever annoys the listener.

S-peak wisdom with conviction, 
O-n the famous quotes; 
R-ecite them very clear, 
I-n the absence of speech coach.
A-ny nice expression gives
N-o tedium or boredom; 
O-n the twenty-sixth of September, old sayings speak wisdom....

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Within the hurricane report,
Of which I just heard snatches,
A person on the radio said,
“Button down the hatches!”

So many people get things wrong
When idioms are used
And it is understandable 
For folks to be confused.

But “buttoning the hatches”
Wouldn’t help one to protect
Either property or relatives,
At least last time I checked....

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A beginner’s guide to basic conversational Finnish, from BADSEEDPRESS.

Includes all the most frequently used terms, phrases, & idioms.

Some examples:

Saunominen yhdessä. = Let’s sauna together. 

Voinko ratsastaa porojaan? = Can I ride your reindeer? 

Ei enää marinoitua silliä, kiitos. = No more pickled herring, thank you.

If you don't start, you'll never Finnish!...

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Ether’s 88 where ya going 
Behind her locked gate 
Caught shy my freedoms 
My baiting the idioms 
My came from extensions...
Is it ever too late?
Going easy with tumbleweed
Boarding space beyond dreams 
Rejecting all cultural greed’s
And creeds the world bleeds...
Is it ever about beauty creams?
Vapour your gate
It’s never too late
Open your mind
Be kind
Tumble me
Shine!...

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Honestly.  What's the best policy?  Honesty?
Don't loose lips sink ships?  You follow me?  
"Keep your circle small."
"Keep your enemies close."
How much is enough, then, to have them by the ropes?  
"Knowledge is power."
"Ignorance is bliss."
How does one choose between THAT or THIS?  
Idioms, cliches, metaphors and more.  Life's one big contradiction we're all dying to explore....

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I travelled to Tarsus thinking thoughtfully
Historical ghosts gave welcoming greetings
Well how do you do? Echoing idioms in ears
Speaking Greek, and gnosis; knowing generations
They surrounded, the simple serious spectator
Hoping to scare, hellish hollering, to humble
Teeth chattering, to not totally tumble
Onward, no humbling to unholy hellians
 

©2016 Bonnie Jennings. All Rights Reserved...

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At the drop of the hat
Let the cat out of the bag
Beat one's head against the wall
be at someones beck and call
Keeping one's eye on the ball
have a whale of a time
Blow someone's mind
With this idioms rhyme
Be on cloud nine
as you vale your tears
then Bend your ears
fear has no colors
At an arm's length
you have a tower of strength
leave one to ones fate
head over heels
feeling all you fee...

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Here’s idiomatic lines for nine.

Why does a stitch in time just save nine?

Why’s possession nine points of the law?

Indeed, why did the cat have nine tails?

Perhaps it’s because it had nine lives?

Why would someone go the whole nine yards?

Should cats and dogs be cats and canines?

Is this poem a nine days’ wonder?

If not, then I will be on cloud nine!



written 13 May 2021
checked with Poetry Soup syllable counter...

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You might take this with a grain of salt
Knowing I heard it on the grape vine
Why they let the cat out of the bag
I'd say your guess is as good as mine

They say I tend to sit on the fence,
Off my rocker by not a far cry
That I'm not playing with a full deck
They should let those sleeping dogs lie!

Because there's method to my madness,
And I'm to blame if things go south
So I'm not beating around the bush
You heard it straight from the horses mouth!...

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A sage with wisdom so erudite
Muse filtering hope, shedding light
Mentor whose keen insight doth shape, mold
Dr Ram's words are better than gold

Twining cultures with his harmonious pen
Idioms, aphorisms from his native kin
With adopted truisms, symbols doth fold
Dr Ram's words are better than gold

Verses sculpted with cunning concision
Accents, rhymes spliced with stunning precision
Crafty metaphors, metonymies freely doled
Dr Ram's words are better than gold...

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So much for that in my childhood.
Irrational idioms slinging often.
Loads and loads of arguing.
Everyday from 6am to 6am.
Not at home anymore in my own place,
To get over him.

No night I had peace had to go to bed angry at dad.
I hated the awful experience of him opening Hell's
Gates with his hurtful words of hate towards me, my mom, and others
He did not love. He loved some but not all
The awful turbulent troll rolls in guilt while I'm at my own home with silent nights....

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A-im to read the book of poet, 
K-now the deep message inside; 
L-ines of idioms are found, 
A-s against the wind or
T-ide.

N-ice words from the book of poet bring brightness and delight; 
G-iving comfort to rainy day, and warmth to the dark cold night.

M-iss not the book of poet, 
A-lthough you aretoo busy; 
K-eep on enjoying the verse, 
A-crostic, ode, and allegory.
T-housand thrill has replaced the tears, woes, and fret; 
A-lways open your heart to beautiful book of poet....

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