ALS NaPoWriMo 2025 Day 24 Prompt: Use idioms/proverbs in your poem.

 

I’ve written a poem using ONLY proverbs.

 

Poem: A Proverbial Verse

 

Even from a foe, a man may learn wisdom–

You cannot always get what you want

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Into every life, a little rain must fall

If you cannot live longer, live deeper

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Worrying never did anyone any good

Well begun is half done.

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If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it

Every stick has two ends

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Every picture tells a story

Ask no questions and hear no lies

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It is not enough to learn how to ride, you must also learn how to fall

If ‘ifs’ and ‘ands’ were pots and pans, there would be no work for tinkers

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Do not try to walk before you can crawl

You cannot unscramble eggs; You cannot win them all

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Doubt is the beginning, not the end, of wisdom

You cannot burn a candle at both ends

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Sometimes we are the student; Sometimes we are the master,

And sometimes we are merely the lesson

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Better to light one candle than to curse the darkness

Time and tide wait for no one

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Zeal without knowledge is fire without light

It’s never too late to learn.

 

©Vandana Bhasin

24.04.2025