#maxims poems on Hello Poetry

TOD HOWARD HAWKS Jul 2019

We used to just waste human lives. Now we turn lives into human waste.

Copyright 2019 Tod Howard Hawks

A graduate of Andover and Columbia College, Columbia University, Tod Howard Hawks has been a poet, an essayist, a writer of aphorisms, a novelist, and a human-rights advocate his entire adult life. He is now writing his first novel, A CHILD FOR AMARANTH.

#aphorisms #maxims #adages

TOD HOWARD HAWKS Jul 2019

APHORISM XIV

Beliefs expressed anonymously are cowards's clothes.

Copyright 2019 Tod Howard Hawks

A graduate of Andover and Columbia College, Columbia University, Tod Howard Hawks has been a poet and a human-rights advocate his entire adult life. He is currently writing his first novel, A CHILD FOR AMARANTH.

#aphorisms #maxims #adages

TOD HOWARD HAWKS Jun 2019

APHORISM VI

Repentagon

Copyright 2019 Tod Howard Hawks

A graduate of Andover and Columbia College, Columbia University, Tod Howard Hawks has been a poet and a human-rights advocate his entire adult life.

#aphorisms #maxims #axioms

Kyle Kulseth May 2015

"Shooter Lets it Ride!"

Reached in and picked a winner
from your box of stock phrases.
Finding ways
to roll zero on 2d6.
You ******' missed
                        "**** the bed!"
I guess you're no Kenny Rogers.
Longer losing streaks familiar
to the wisdom of a betting man.

"Carpe Diem" on your calf,
laugh your way to the bank.
But put a stutter on your chuckle
'til the day they seize your wages.
If it "happens for a reason,"
fold your cards and hold your tongue in.
                           Hold your tongue and
                           clamp your teeth.

"What it is is what it is."
That's a "tautology."
They taught me that one in college,
when I took critical theory!
If you seek an explanation,
you're just critically faulting
                           on your dice rolls
                           and your debts.

Reached in and hit the bottom
of your box of stock phrases.
Finding ways
to keep afloat on empty words.
You ******' missed.
                           "Feeling blessed?"
Turns out you're no Kenny Rogers.
Longer losing streaks familiar
to the wisdom of a betting man.

#metaphor #words #luck #wisdom #gambling #gamble #proverbs #debt #phrases #maxims

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