Short Rule Of Thumb Poems

Short Rule Of Thumb Poems. Below are examples of the most popular short poems about Rule Of Thumb by PoetrySoup poets. Search short poems about Rule Of Thumb by length and keyword.


Tweedledee and Tweedledum

In Alice, this guy Tweedledum
By anyone’s rule of thumb
His twin, Tweedledee
Just had to be
A little bit dumber than dumb
Form: Limerick


Premium Member A Rule of Thumb

A rule of thumb
which pertains to everyone
who may happen to mingle among us.
Show me an individual
who loves animals
and I'll show you someone that you can trust.
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member ANCESTORS ARE IMPORTANT

If you want to know why our ancestors are important…
here’s a little rule of thumb…

It’s difficult to know where we’re going…
If we don’t know who we came from.
© Jim Yerman  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member A Simple Perishables Rule of Thumb

A Simple Perishables Rule of Thumb,
which for health reasons, should be followed by everyone.

"Your Perishables Must Be Stored Behind Your Refrigerator Door
no later than 30 minutes after you have left the store".
Form: Rhyme

Afghanistan ~ "dumb Support"?

Maimed support undone,
the battle won ~
is still that tyranny's succumb
mates jeopardy with truth, upon the run!

Prowess protects more than
the "rule of thumb"!
Support not my position's drum,
If I am able . . . and yet still dumb!
Form: Rhyme


The Balance Cheat

The problem with Weights and Measures
Is akin to wealth and pleasures
The Rule of Thumb
Is really dumb 
Yet quickly produces treasures*

*American canned products may contain
30% - or more - unregulated water priced at 
the same rate as the product, making it the 
most expensive water on earth!
Form: Limerick

Premium Member Number One: Indian Summer

Tis truly an Indian summer here,
It is because we live in India,
Like in America, tis different there,
Their late September, it is trivia,
Tis September everywhere, not just them,
Be the same, October heat, rule of thumb.


2019 September 27
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6 lines x 10 syllables = a perfect 60 syllables
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© Hilo Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member William Claude Dukenfield

'Tis said that William Claude Dukenfield was fond of his rum.

   A healthy nip morning, noon and night was his rule of thumb!

      He was better known as W. C. Fields who was always on the skids,

         And despised nearly everything and everyone including innocent kids!

Robert L. Hinshaw, CMSgt, USAF, Retired
© All Rights Reserved
Form: Clerihew

Making a Choice

When options are presented
And I have to make a choice,
The more I see, the less that my
Opinion I can voice.

For choosing A or B or C
Sets limits I’ll accept.
When there are more alternatives,
My certainty gets swept.

The smaller the selection,
That much quicker I’ll decide,
A rule of thumb that in all walks
Of life can be applied.
Form: Rhyme

Lady of Darkness

Lady of Darkness

She sat in the dark in an overstuffed chair
Though the stuff in the seat was no longer there
A bottle of vodka and a bottle of rum
A chair in the darkness was her rule of thumb
As the shadows grew darker, the bottles grew lighter
As she tried to lighten the darkness inside her
Till only the chair and the bottles remain
With the lady of darkness no longer in pain
Form: Rhyme

Visiting the Badger Hole

Oh, the leaves are liquid yellow
As we ride on through Custer Park,
In search of that old Badger Hole:
Home of the poet Badger Clark.

Yes, we come to step back in time—
It’s a historic rule of thumb—
Where the city does not crowd you,
And man can be scattered some.

The old cabin now sits empty—
A last poetic monument—
Proving that words can still live on
Where men have lived and come and went.
© Glen Enloe  Create an image from this poem.

Premium Member Verity

Verity Miracle Man 1/9/2025 Political truth is often perceived to come, from the politicians lips the story last passed. But If lips were moving there is a rule of thumb, that he must be lying or just feeling outclassed. Most Politicians are guilty of pollution, they contaminate the air with unwanted sound. I’d suggest term limits as starting solution, giving another a chance for sheep to confound.
© Tom Wright  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Lyric

Rule of Thumb

As I grow I begin to know where I stand in this life as a man,I know the way yet it gets harder each day wishing time wouldn't get in the way.A man must know which way to go for his family is under his control it's not just you but your children to that follow in the life you choose, so take time each day to show them the way in hopes they may learn from your mistakes that's all life is all life is to be teach our children to build a better society.

Premium Member Normally Rule of Thumb

Thinking can overtax the active mind Thoughts flood the strata of the cerebrum, Where’s vital information one should find Cannot locate a fact, one feels so dumb, Something that is normally rule of thumb. Moments before on the tip of the tongue, Much we have forgotten, since we were young To be forgetful is so frustrating, Suggesting needed synapses are sprung Age can be so darn debilitating.
written January 31, 2022
Form: Dizain

Premium Member Living In Denial

There's no denying
We hear too much lying
In the World today

Too much cheating
And repeating
Everything we say

Too much backchat
And idle chit chat
Going all around.

Too much talk
And not much action
Abounds

Too much taking.
Too little giving
It seems a rule of thumb.

Too much heartache
And Destruction
Making all feel numb

Too much trouble
Cauldrons bubble
Making another spell

Trouble brewing
While we are spewing
Do we now live in HELL?
Form: Rhyme

The Dollhouse

Our grandkids have a dollhouse,
A gift we did provide,
With furniture and little folk 
To fill the rooms inside.

It's used a lot, quite lovingly,
Yet every time we come,
It all looks topsy-turvy,
Which defies my rule of thumb.

I take five minutes worth of time 
To neaten up the place,
A task the long-lost child in me
Does readily embrace.

And once I'm done, I let it go;
My set-ups they may spurn,
But even if they mess them up,
At least I've had my turn!
Form: Rhyme

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