lou
lou
Jun 23, 2011
This poem is part of the workshop:

Cliches and their use

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Life

Old woman in the corner
Bent and weary worn
Regales her family with days of yore.

When it was all good and
Wrinkles were like hens teeth
And false teeth were on the down low.

Life goes a mile a minute
When your filled with the vigour of youth
A rolling stone gathers no moss

Free as a bird and 
fresh as the summers rain
Your love is deeper than the deepest ocean

But it's nose to the grind stone
There is no icing on the cake
Too many cooks spoil the broth 

It's a necessary evil the choice we must make
So it's all hands to the pump
The world Is rotten to the core

Knock it out of the ball park
Knock the cover off ball
Try to live life to the full

They say age before beauty 
But here is the acid test
Here's how you play the game

Life ain't nothing but a chicken wing
Be hot to trot
Pick the lesser of two evils

Know that  love is blind
Silence is golden
Ignore the seven year itch

About This Poem

Editing Stage: Editing - rough draft

About the Author

Region, Country: West London, GBR

Favorite Poets: Pablo Neruda

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Comments

K

Hehehe. Who said using cliches doesn't/can not make a poe?. Seems to me we might have started a new genre: Cliche poems in a heartbeat, a wing and a prayer.

~A

Some fine tuning for apostrophes and sp. ~

Hooded Stranger

Hooded Stranger

13 years 10 months ago

Lou,

mine is better so I win the prize!

Only kidding!

Good job.

Did you find it hard to write because I know I did, it was so outside my comfort zones.

Regards,

HS

lou

lou

13 years 10 months ago

I found it very difficult to write, I tried to retain a remnant of my style, in the end the poem just sought of happened.

Ps I win lol !!

Lou

lou

The reason it didn't flow well was because I was stifled by the cliches.

Ian what are you on? And can you get me some LMAO !!!!

Lou

lou

lou

13 years 10 months ago

Hope you realise I don't usually write in cliches.

Thanks Lou