Short Idiom Poems

sage (is) acumen,
a life force calms = meaningful;
wisdom (is) the idiom.
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Scribe January 9, 2015!...

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An Idiom
Haiku
Tom
1-4-2020

So narrow minded,
She can look through a keyhole,
With both eyes at once.
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Caught between two stools poor grandma's toilet paper 



Not for the Contest(Idiom with a double meaning: )
Inspired by SilentOne's One liner contest...

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Anger is an explosive expression
Belligerence is not an excuse
Careless thoughts of idiom 
Does not reason words of abuse

Why use it as a crutch?

© Stacy Lynn Stiles...

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Olde English in the vernacular
to celebrate a dialect
Language really said by men
poetized with words 
used there and then

Tribute To Williams Barnes see my blog today 4 Aug...

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When the princess kissed the frog on the lips,
her heart burst in three, painful double skips.
Then she sank to the floor,
dead as a nail in a door.
Yep ~ that's how they do fall sometimes ~ these chips....

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Movement Was A Birther

Movement had become a birther
President no one else was worthier
Then our Hillary happened to be
And also between you and me
Into detail cannot go further.

Sounds like a Trump idiom.

Jim Horn...

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Good Grief
By: Miracle Man
12-9-2019

Many have uttered these words on some occasion,
“Good Grief," cant that person do anything right?
An idiom that inflicts an unintended abrasion,
Just because It’s clever doesn’t diminish Its bite.
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Here lies the body of Jamie McGraph
Who decided to write his own epitaph
Thinking a selfie might make it better
While taking the photo he took a header
Off the edge of a cliff into oblivion
"Came to a sticky end" the fitting idiom






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12/04/2019...

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climb slowly little squirrel
cling to the lichens and bark
enjoy your travels, bring home
cheeky souvenirs

9/26/2020

“or bust,” an idiom expressing a determination to get something
done or die trying. Used in travels. For example: “Florida or bust”...

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The incognito noise,
The unhealed trauma,
The endless distress,
The suffering infinite 
Become the idiom,
That is testing us,
Breaking us from within,
The perennial angst and despairs
Need to be burnt into the ashes,
The pyre of it
Will detoxify the existence,
The Dawn......

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Dry lips
Parched mouth
Unbearable heat
Dripping sweat
Empty fridge...

On the telly
Running adverts
Cooling fans
Air conditioners
Iced drinks 
Refreshing mint gums...

Cold comfort!

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© 28th July 2016

Contest: Create an Idiom
Sponsor: Jesse Day...

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The sanctimonious tabernacle; where the desolated tongues confess.
The covetous, unwed beds are hungry, exuberant anatomies get undressed.
The biased courthouse; where many admissible lies rattle but hardly unfold.
The lewd jail cells are full, innocent bodies, minds, and souls loathly probed.








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To life, and all the hangers-on
Who’ll endure when the others have gone?
“We will,” hissed the cockroaches
“Don’t forget us,” squealed the rats
Ah yes, the rats
The idiom kings
“Rat race”
“Fight like cornered rats”
“Like rats leaving a sinking ship”
“Drown like rats”
Except for that last one
You guys are resilient...

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In my room with its broken door
is a vast array of U3A nomenclature
Admitting ones age is a drag
A vast collection of antique SLR'S stands
Just needing the servicing of fandango light
Use it or lose it, the idiom goes

A coach trip awaits
were I could make a friend
to share my interests
like J'aime Francais
and Lloyds Park walks
almost being half a centurion Croydonite...

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Listen to poem:

A look, a touch, a movement, a greeting,
Invisible matter is now a thing in fashion.
Waves of dark energy arrange a meeting,
Similar attractors find a matching passion.

It's a cosmic, complimentary compatibility;
A reciprocated smile on an ice-blue planet.
It's a notion that aids our species' longevity;
Soulmates: two poles of the same magnet.
 
Create an Idiom - Poetry Contest...

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March In

“In like a lion out like a lamb.”  Old March idiom

Capricious and fickle
March - wind piper of mischief
Wakes rainbows with sun and storm
Sends kites on rollicking adventures.

March bluster teases tree buds
Tickles the robins and wrens
Lion lies down with the lamb
Joy born from winter feels March whimsy.

3-4-22
Contest: March In
Sponsor: Andrea Dietrich
Syllable Count: 7,7,7,9  May be rhymed or unrhymed....

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Jon and Paula are two long-time, firm friends of mine.
Once you get to know their tastes, they both are just fine.

Meet Paula Red, whose bite can sometimes cause you pain
and Jonagold, two treasures from the state of Maine.
Taken in small bites, Jon’s by far the sweeter one;
but Paula makes a pie that is the best bar none.

applesauce
sweet talk comes cheap
bite vs. bark


*Applesauce is an idiom for nonsense or sweet talk....

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What words, dear God?
For an idiom 
Or an idea
Of all that this means!

If not then, or when
My soul resounds 
At a silent thought
Lights an eternal flame
Recalled at sacred hearths;

Within quiet chambers
Wounds would heal
Once dealt unwittingly
Now in privacy, thoughts
Wrench relentlessly
At souls adrift
Through time and space;

Words cut at passions denied
Allow this one impression
To swathe us
Dear God, what words?...

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A LOOK CAN WHISPER OR SHOUT ITS ARRIVAL
     Once spent there's no retreat or denial
     Be careful to show
     Emotions that grow
     Into notions that could threaten survival

     Direct not a frown with a stare
     Unless you just don't really care
     Your chances are slim
     And may be starting to dim
     The time could be right for a prayer.


     Create An Idiom-Poetry Contest
     Sponsored By Jesse Day
     07/16/2016...

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       Who has the amble 
                stride
      amorously succulent
       with digits enraged
             and idiom
          expressing it's
            firm tender
                touch

       'tiz the chaste she  

          Who is gladly
            expressing
           the devotion
        yet guile to those
       who will not accept
           all need touch 

            It is the poet
          the poet indeed...

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Without great words of wisdom, a nation will survive.
Without purveyors of idiom, a dynasty will thrive.
But let the sewers overflow when waters run amiss,
And you will find a people on the brink of the abyss.

Kingdoms rise to glory through the works of humble men
Whose masterpiece is laid with pipe, not scratches from a pen.
So if the water from the tap should flow with earthy umber,
Best dry the mess with manuscript and then go call a plumber....

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Your life must have been worthwhile
You success is one milestone
Turning another facet of life
Likens a turning of a book of each page.

For every millennium
And for every momentum
Life after life, page by page
Is understood served well a purpose
Although its meaning contrive
Misleading a mission of life
Is just a page worn out of use.

You let open a dream
Strive for it leave no post mortem
All you did must conform
To your style and idiom....

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1890 Murder at home by Czech artist Jacob Schekander.
One of the prettiest arts you will consider.
Since it's a maze, as well as a drawing.
Rather deter this rare and cryptic killing!
Viewers' non-verbal idiom is unique and filthy.
Is the man flagging the perished lady?
I assume he is defending his fatality

Written: February 18, 2022

1st place contest winner 

A BRIAN STRAND VISUAL Poetry Contest
Sponsored by: Brian Strand...

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Love poems, how trite they become.
Their hackneyed themes we want to scream.
We purposely shy away from
That genre, teeming so it seems
With grandiloquent, large supplies
Of conjured words with empty rings
Of cheating hearts and love that dies.
Ad nauseam is all it brings.
We wish just once that we could read
Where love’s expressed differently:
Brand new verses that supersede
Love’s banal themes in poetry.
Love-lost poems are sickening
But most of all they are boring....

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