Epigrams and Proverbs

  A Potpourri of Aphoristic Verses   Confronted with the truth, some will embrace it, While others, sadly, will refuse...

. Epigrams . Bear in mind that whilst you’re sleeping Your enemies are busy scheming. . If you absorb everything...

. Second Chances Just know that you’ve been staked a second chance At any time the future’s looking muddy. Put...

.. 1. Generative artificial intelligence As for-profit tech makes some obverse sense: It markets to itself, its own monopoly Secured...

. 1. Just off the cuff, I’d cap the alcoholic swill __Before it calls your bluff and saps your will....

. Distress Signals an extended villanelle Distressing times are coming round again, And all the talking heads now flap their...

. Serenade Down dash the splashlets of rain to the ground; Streams from the eaves full and fluent resound. Guests...

. If You Can’t Believe It’s Not Butter If solidified oil with chemical clutter That helps it look yellow and...

. In Eve’s Footsteps based on “Genesis 2: Teaching its Truth to Women” by Kimberly Hartke “And the Lord God...

. Aphorisms for a Foggy Morning No literary monuments exist without the word. A lord who lacks entitlements is patently...

. Some Satirical Epigrams in hendecasyllabics (essentially trochaic pentameter with a dactyl for the second foot) . Complaint to a...

. On Second Thought When words fail, __perhaps it’s not the words at all, __but hobbled minds that cannot call...

. Growing Up . Starving Children in China If you don’t eat the food that’s on your plate ....I will,...

. Before Going to Sleep as a Boy I saw Him when I closed my eyes, Gazing down sidelong, seeing...

. Civics 101 Jejune excuses used too many times Do not undo the doer from the deed: A miscreant accused...

Equilateral Proverbs: A Poetry Challenge by James A. Tweedie Construct a rhyming, rhythmic intelligible proverb or saying where the first...

. No News Is Good News The world contrives, in many different ways, To overload the minutes of our days...

. Hell Rising They’ve come with a purpose: to numb or perturb us __By infecting the already-sick, And with them...

. Raw Now, listen, if you want to know the truth: The world's a battleground of claw and tooth. ....

. Set your priorities—don't be uncouth—know the Secret to happiness lies in this truth: “Though the Sum of all things...

Proverbs for Engraving onto Imperial Monuments War is the price of freedom. Depths bewilder. The blow aimed at the beast...

Epigrams on the Decay within Academia   Liberal Artifice "Progressives," through advanced miseducation, Have shaken our fair land to its...

To Make a Poet “A man can learn the art of poetry,” You say, “and many learn this art by...