Short Sayings Poems

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Traditional Sayings

Traditional Sayings

Traditional sayings that are 
widely understood as 
being true clog the 
arteries of 
the strange.


Better To Be a Pessimist

No word from you, is
Like expecting a kiss, but
Getting slapped instead 


8/3/11

Received 3rd place in "Sayings of Wisdom" contest
Form: Senryu

Childhood Sayings

This was our family's saying,
"Lost something?" they're braying,
"Look in the bin!' family motto,
Arbiter of stuff, the rubbish grotto!

Inside Sue

Before I end things
I want to bring
A hymn of sayings
I wish to sing

My veins I'm praying 
Not open wide
For much delaying
The sue inside
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member To Walk Alone

To walk 
Alone 
Feels like 
My heart 
Is gone 
And my  
Simple sayings 
Don’t pan out 
And lost am I  
Within what's 
Planned or 
All been done
© Cs Parker  Create an image from this poem.


Premium Member Fair and Square Humorous Patter Sayings Poetry Contest

Round up all them sweet wallflowers
don't let them sit alone for hours! :(

You're having fun-- I've got a hunch ;-P
They're sick of watching, drinking punch
Form: Lyric

Cute Sayings 101

Kid says, "I am out of gas"

Mom says, "Well maybe you will have a quiet pleasant night!"

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Sounds of Sayings Fill the Sky

Sound's Of Saying's Fill The Sky!

Which To Us, Does Best Imply?

"Eat Well, Laugh Often, Love A Lot;"

Cause Little Miss Miracle, The T-V's Got;

Introduction's, Well Why, .... Not?!
© Mike Reed  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Ballad

Premium Member Benefits Denied

expendable lives our elderly, sick and poor benefits denied D.C. may call the shots now God is the equalizer
*Written in honor of John Freeman for his contest "Sayings of Wisdom"
Form: Tanka

Premium Member One Liners

“Hair today, gone tomorrow” an old expression Another is “Never to late to make a first impression” Old sayings you hear While having a beer With a bunch of buddies and acting like adolescents
fun
Form: Limerick

Proper Sayings

I WISH TO EXPRESS MY GRADITUDE
FOR BEING HONORED BY LOVING YOU
I AINT TO PROUD TO ASK
AND AINT NEVER BEEN TO PROUD
TO BEG
WHAT I'M SAYING IS I LOVE YOU
AND WISH YOU TO LOVE ME
BY SAYING YES TO MY 
PROPOSAL
Form: Ballad

Sayings From Long Ago

“A good beginning is half the battle”
                     and
      “All’s well that ends well”
      Are sayings from long ago.

The part that is sandwiched 
       in between is why
   I’m not sure if this is so.
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Never Say Never

If you never try, you will never fail. You will also never experience the thrill of the challenge nor the joy in reaching your goal.
For the contest Sayings Of Wisdom Sponsored by John Freeman Placement: 2nd

The Believers - Chapter 23, Verses 91, Holy Koran

Never did Allah take to Himself a son
And never was there any god with Allah the One
If it were
All gods would take away their created things
And all gods would try to overpower one another
Allah’s Glory is above their sayings.

Premium Member Sayings

Happy feels easy
Sorrow heaps plenty


Sadness feels heavy
Placid prompts cheery


Motive moves fancy
Discrete sows amply 


Divine mind inspires
Human kind conspires




Leon Enriquez
03 September 2019
Singapore
Form: Couplet

Wisdom Dictates- Five Second Sermon

Pastor sermonized,
one fine Sunday years ago
about gossiping.
No one ever forgot it.
“Gossip hurts. Shut your big mouths!” 


for John Freeman's "Sayings of Wisdom" Contest.
     Pure, simplistic and easy to understand. : ) 8/4/11
Form: Tanka

Premium Member who thinks up this stuff

sign outside of this restaurant says
I got booted from the coffee club
because I wore a tea-shirt

Who thinks up this stuff?
And why haven’t I heard it before?
I thought I had heard all of these cutesy petootsie sayings.

Guess not.

Premium Member This Is the One

an Old Testament
should’ve been in the book
perfect 
as a quote
in parables 
my sayings have you twisted 
says she wants the wife’s dead
but please keep them around
shoot the husband’s
says it Old Testament style 
an Old Testament mind

Premium Member Familiar Old Sayings

“Hair today, gone tomorrow is an old expression” Another is “Never too late to make a first impression” Old sayings you hear While having a beer With some buddies and acting like a bunch of adolescents © Jack Ellison 2015
Form: Limerick

Odoriferous Papers

Sayings of saints
Prayers of Gods
Words from heaven
Flows from my thoughts!
Move in the air
all in a pair,
written well...almost fair
neither far, nor near
drowning in a book
with a poem to bear.
Fragrance of roses,
Fragmenting in a paper!
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Aphorisms

Does your conniption fit?

If it's not a laughing matter, then it's not important. 

Did you ever notice that when you stir a glass of something, the spoon says, "Jibiddy jibiddy jibiddy jibiddy"?

Worst first name of anyone I ever met: Schmedroy.
Form: Prose

Premium Member Council Counsel

Rune awakenings
Wise ones nurture my rapture 
kindred souls share my light halo
The “Presence” guides lessons learned




(Rune-characters written in ancient languages to explain text. Mystical meaning, casting spells in poems, sayings or aphorisms.)
Form: Tanka

I Recall

I recall.....the books she read,
The songs she sang and sayings she said.
I recall.....the way she'd run,
Her finger down my nose for fun.
I recall.....the way she hid,
'protecting" me as a kid.
and
I recall.....her saddened eyes,
As we said our last goodbyes.
Form: Rhyme

All

What goes up must come down,
What comes around goes around,
Both genuine sayings,

What’s mine is yours,
What’s yours is mine,
Both hoped for, but false statements,

All hoped for and all forgotten,
All wished for and all gone,
All dreamed of and all ended,
Form:

Premium Member It's In There

It's all right there, from you don't hide
The love for you I hold inside
You'll see it unobtrusively
A wink, a smile, quietly
It's not with fanfare that I show
But little sayings like, you know?
Or small things claimed to represent 
Bookmarks for accomplishment
Form: Rhyme

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