Ever hear a dVerse tale that you believed at your sea? Only to later find out it is a fallacy. While we have all been there and then we grow up, sorta, and become aware. So lets see what we can do as the so called wise speaks to you.
Old wives tales make a sound,
Bringing belief to your ground.
Whoops, you won't turn into a hound,
If you visit the pound.
Inhaling the breath of a horse,
Can cure whooping cough without remorse.
Damn, even if it is rank?
I bet it works to stick your head in a tank.
If cows are lying down,
It will rain in your town.
My what those reguritating grass chewers can do.
But then again few meteorologists really have a clue.
If you sit to close to the TV,
You will go blind at your sea.
Pfffft to that,
I'd surely be blind as a bat.
A howling mutt,
Means someone nearby is going to kick the bucket at their hut.
Wow, that is sure a neat one.
Everyone must be dying soon the way they let their mouth run.
You will have one child,
For every ribbon you break at your wedding shower as you go wild.
Damn, I sure hope the ribbons break at a low dose,
Or you may turn out to be as big as a house.
Don't whistle in the house on any day,
Or the devil will come to play.
My he must have great hearing.
Maybe he just wants to come for cheering?
Hold your breath when a cementary you pass,
Or a ghost will latch to your ass.
Coming home with you too.
I guess they liked being breathed on by you.
Washing a persons clothes on new year's day,
Means death will come to play.
As some time that year,
They will die I fear.
You get warts from kissing a toad.
And why on a toad would you want to unload?
The goat would not have you?
My that must make you blue.
And of course there are a ton,
That can be given a run.
Thankfully I'm snip snip,
So I won't go blind or trip.
Those wives really must have had fun, making them up under their sun. Gossiping humans can create fake stuff with ease. If you scratch your nose you'll get fleas. See I can also do it at my grass with no wives near my little rhyming ass.
Experience spring, have a fling.
Old wives tales make a sound,
Bringing belief to your ground.
Whoops, you won't turn into a hound,
If you visit the pound.
Inhaling the breath of a horse,
Can cure whooping cough without remorse.
Damn, even if it is rank?
I bet it works to stick your head in a tank.
If cows are lying down,
It will rain in your town.
My what those reguritating grass chewers can do.
But then again few meteorologists really have a clue.
If you sit to close to the TV,
You will go blind at your sea.
Pfffft to that,
I'd surely be blind as a bat.
A howling mutt,
Means someone nearby is going to kick the bucket at their hut.
Wow, that is sure a neat one.
Everyone must be dying soon the way they let their mouth run.
You will have one child,
For every ribbon you break at your wedding shower as you go wild.
Damn, I sure hope the ribbons break at a low dose,
Or you may turn out to be as big as a house.
Don't whistle in the house on any day,
Or the devil will come to play.
My he must have great hearing.
Maybe he just wants to come for cheering?
Hold your breath when a cementary you pass,
Or a ghost will latch to your ass.
Coming home with you too.
I guess they liked being breathed on by you.
Washing a persons clothes on new year's day,
Means death will come to play.
As some time that year,
They will die I fear.
You get warts from kissing a toad.
And why on a toad would you want to unload?
The goat would not have you?
My that must make you blue.
And of course there are a ton,
That can be given a run.
Thankfully I'm snip snip,
So I won't go blind or trip.
Those wives really must have had fun, making them up under their sun. Gossiping humans can create fake stuff with ease. If you scratch your nose you'll get fleas. See I can also do it at my grass with no wives near my little rhyming ass.
Experience spring, have a fling.
No.#1
ReplyDeleteHank
Nine in a row
DeleteAt your show
Some Old Wives' tales
ReplyDeleteOr is it superstitions
Pass a cemetery don't inhale
Whistling in the house forbidden
Lots of similarity
Also in our society
Disregard them at your own peril
Some are fooled and some get a thrill
Hank
Yeah a thrill could sure be had
DeleteAt each pad
As they are a fad
Ignoring them won't drive you mad
I've heard two of them, the graveyard & the toad. When mom's have a first baby there's a whole slew of new ones that get thrown at you in the name of sound advice (some as ridiculous as inhaling the breath of a horse (lol to that one, and ew).
ReplyDeletehaha yeah ridiculous and nasty many are
DeleteNear and far
Who ever thought them up most have had lots of time
To think up a chime
oh snap i need to stop whistling....
ReplyDeleteand if i would have held my breath by the cemetary
i would be dead, as i grew up with one by the house like a shed
ha...imagine breaking about twelve ribbons,
you'd have nightmare of those little ones
bounding around like a bunch of gibbons...
Yeah 12 ribbons would be scary indeed
DeleteMight not want to do the deed
If that many are around your feed
But one would have a good seed lol
My Mother used to tell us we would go blind if we sat close to the TV!! She might have been right. I don't see as well as I used to. It wouldn't be age would it?
ReplyDeletehaha yeah leaning more toward age
DeleteReading one too many a page
you can't whistle in the house? I should tell my house mate he does it every day - wait he might be the devil himself. This explains so much!
ReplyDeleteThe devil in your house
DeleteThat would sure be worse than a mouse
Ha, gotta stop that whistling in the house. Don't want to encourage the devil's visits. As for kissing toads, yikes.... Ha, I heard that about sitting close to a tv too. Undoubtedly invented by someone's parent in the stone age, but it sure has stuck like glue!
ReplyDeleteYeah the stone age
DeleteIs where they were all the rage
Now people still pass them on
Like they think they were ever true but instead on big con
Of wives tales you have found some new
ReplyDeleteOf things you can and cannot do
The outcome can be good or bad
But one could always fudge a tad
There's one I heard my grannie told
An itchy palm will bring you gold
You could scratch your palm all day
In hopes the gold will come your way
Pfft I'd scratch years if that were true
DeleteTo have some gold come due
But that would never work
At least they can make one smirk
WOW some of them are new to me. Being the superstitious person that I am, thanks to you, now I can't wash clothes on New Years Day. I already have to open the front door and back door simultaneously to let out the bad spirits and usher in the good.
ReplyDeletehahaha glad I could add to your woes
DeleteBut at least you have an excuse not to watch clothes
Wash I mean
DeleteYou can not watch them too at your scene
My grandmother used to say that when her legs were in pain
ReplyDeleteThat it would mean it would surely rain
Of course I used to laugh this off and roll my eyes
Until it rained a heavy storm, much to my surprise :)
haha well I guess you never know
DeleteWhen rain could show
She could feeling it coming
As her leg pains started humming
I'm very thankful there were no ribbons at my wedding!
ReplyDeletehaha don't want tons of poo machines around
DeleteWith their wailing sound
Gossip is a thing so cool,
ReplyDeleteparticipate and you are a fool,
don't gossip and you are no good,
best to stay back in the hood :-)
That is very true
DeleteIgnore it at your zoo
And off you go
Better things to do at one show
Sitting on the wave,
ReplyDeletelistening to tales,
whistling with the wind -
how nice to fling
something heavy in -
hear back just "pling"...
Adding them all in one
DeleteCould be an interesting run
And then there's
ReplyDeletethe one
'bout hair
growing on
your palm.
Is that one true Cat? Well is it?
Not true at all
DeleteNot even for a cat at ones hall
Life before facebook, making shit up
ReplyDeleteThat it was indeed
DeleteNow they jut post it to their facebook feed
Wondering why there are no young wives tales
ReplyDeleteMaybe they don't know enough to know what ails
But gossip they do at an alarming rate
They use the phone not the garden gate
Don't try to cure your ills by their talk
Else you may find yourself on a walk
Better to look to more common sense
Than listening to any wives and their local pretense.
Hmmm I guess the old is more
DeleteFor ancient at their shore
As in made up long ago
Before people had things to do at their show
And yeah ignore them I will
Don't want to feel ill
People who buy into them may need a life
ReplyDeleteThat they do
DeleteAt their zoo
I believed the cemetery one
ReplyDeletewhen I was young.
So hard to hold your breath,
afraid of death
or worse,
as you went under their curse.
lol....
haha if it was a long one
DeleteOr away you had to walk or run
Or drove passed slow
Must have been hard at your show
is a cow lying down split milk?
ReplyDelete*spilt
DeleteHmmm it could very well be
DeleteBut dairy is still scary
Some of these old saying are so hilarious. It makes me wonder where they even came from ;)
ReplyDeleteYeah probably the same place as many a myth I suppose
DeleteBut god only knows
Old wives tale
ReplyDeletethey sure regale
and maybe keep one in place
but I don't listen to them ha ~
Have a good day Pat ~
Nope, ignore them too
DeleteHere at my zoo
Never stick your face near a horses, they bite.
ReplyDeleteWill keep that in mind
DeleteAnd avoid their kind
Those old wives sure could spin some yarns! With the amount of howling Schultz has done, I'm surprised there's anybody left alive in this world!
ReplyDeleteYeah we'd all be long dead
DeleteAs schultz howls off his head
you know...i'm kissing toads all the time...never got warts from it though...haha...smiles
ReplyDeleteI hope they are good kissers though
DeleteBlah is all I can think at my show haha
The opening two lines is so good, the kind of thing that some rap artists would be proud to churn out with. Some nonsense spreads around so it's good that you made fun of this at your exposure ground.
ReplyDeleteYeah can always have fun
DeleteUnder my sun
And I can make rappers proud
Could draw a crowd
In Oakland town we need some cows lying down,
ReplyDeleteDoes this this old cow count?
Not sure that would work
DeleteBut could make people smirk
If you break a mirror you will have 7 years bad luck? I've broken many and now I'm saying WTF? I feel sorry for those construction/remodeling people. They go in and deconstruct, breaking walls and mirrors! They must have bad luck, just look at all the money they make!
ReplyDeleteYeah having all that money weighing them down
DeleteMust really make them frown
I don't know how they handle such luck
For the life truly has to suck
Awesome blog! I miss writing poems... You've inspired me to give some a try again.
ReplyDeleteGlad I can inspire
DeleteSuch a fire
Well, this just gives me all the more reason NOT to tell my neighbors when their dog runs away next time. They let him out at 6 am and let him bark for an hour straight. I surely feel like I am going to die with all that racket that early in the morning.
ReplyDeleteDamn that is a wake up call
DeleteWorse than a rooster at your hall
HA! Tails of old wives tales! We never cry wolf, it usually turns out badly for cats,
ReplyDeleteYeah that is does indeed
DeleteBetter off letting the dog do that at any feed
Wives tales and gossip - never really connected the two together until I read your poem today, Pat. Always thought wives tales were just fun little notions, while gossip...well, gossip is just plain bad. As for inhaling horse breath, think I'll pass on that one. Blech!
ReplyDeleteThe two can become one
DeleteMaking such tales come to life under any sun
Although now people just gossip abut reality tv crap
That is given a lap
Old wives tales or superstitions who is to say
ReplyDeletebut, to some I say nay, but to others
I sometimes stay away, like breaking
a mirror can bring 7 years bad luck
no thank you, to that I would duck
to open an umbrella inside your house
this is something one should never do
especially, holding it over your head
for I'm afraid bad luck will dwell
if your right hand is itchy
money is coming your way
but, if you scratch it while it is itchy
the money will go away...
so everyone resist the urge
to scratch that day...
the cat has put some good ones
on display..
some of these I've never heard
and some are quite absurd
but, fun to read at the cat's sea
while I sip on some ice tea..
Have a grand day Pat and his cat..
Where are you Pat and his cat I am worried about you today. Come out and say hey...
Deletehahaha oh you are one of those
DeleteScared such things will cause woes
Better off hating walls for stubbing toes
Those are the real foes haha
The rest I have done with ease
And haven't even got fleas
And some surely are absurd
Today I once more flipped word the bird
As in was off again at my bay
So I was out and about but always come back to play
orlin N cassie... N how bout de black kitteh crossin yur path bringin nothin but bad luck.....all eye can say iz me brother in law but knot by marriage...sauce of fishbone.....
ReplyDeleterocked.....course he did haz sum white on him.....but ewe noe what me meenz.......
we miss ya buddy...
tuna ~~~~~~~
Yeah that is a load of crap too
DeleteHave three black cats at the other
So we would be screwed
Prob made up by a dog loving dude
Well, I'm an "old wife"
ReplyDeleteAnd I say to you,
Those old tales
Are full of poo,
Except in life,
There's one that's true:
Don't be making a funny face,
Or it will surely freeze in place!
So is that why I look so funny?
DeleteI guess I'll have to pay a plastic surgeon some money
When old wive's tales are told,
ReplyDeleteIt passes the time when growing old
And you have to admit, it's much more funny
Then making up tales of the Easter bunny.
Yeah that is true
DeleteBut then an easter bunny tale can come about at my zoo
That can be fun
Which I have given a run
DEar Pat, This stanza was my favorite:
ReplyDelete"If cows are lying down,
It will rain in your town.
My what those reguritating grass chewers can do.
But then again few meteorologists really have a clue."
I liked it best because it does seem to me that cows probably can tell the weather better than the trained meteorologists with their charts and swirls. Peace.
haha yeah they never get it right
DeleteCows could do better day and night
Leaving comments in poetry
ReplyDeleteEvidently will be the death of me
Old wives's tales
Eating snails
If you mention sea
In your poetry
A cat will cross your path
And cause your wrath...
Sea I mention a time or ten
DeleteHere at my den
So I'd have 1000 cats or so
If that were true at my show
Wow, not only does you post rhyme, but so do all of your comments! I'm not very good with poetry. :(
ReplyDeleteIf I had more time,
I'd learn to rhyme.
See what I mean?
haha I'm jut stuck in a rut
DeleteA rhyming nut
At least you got one
Under my sun
Hmm, how about a rhyme about opening umbrellas inside?
ReplyDeleteThat I could do
DeleteOne day at my zoo
I open my umbrella at work all the time
ReplyDeleteTo drip dry and have felt no crime
I walk under ladders when I can't get around
With no bad luck to be found
I had a black cat for many years
Crossed my path endlessly with no fears
But at the first sign of a winter cold
Gargling with salt 'til the day I grow old
And Vicks on my feet I often use
It's worked so far, just can't lose
But that crazy one my mom used to say
All the time at my younger bay
When someone's nose itches
And the hole in the britches...
Who was the one checking???????????
hahaha the underwear inspector I suppose
DeleteHole searching he or she goes
And yeah smashed mirrors and walked under ladders too
Pfft to that so called mumbo jumbo at my zoo
Oh sure, NOW you tell me the advice about kissing toads. But in my defense, I thought it was a frog. :(
ReplyDeleteToad or frog
DeleteBeats a hog
Fun..I know a people that believe these things :)
ReplyDeleteYeah know a few too
DeleteCrazy at their zoo
Step on a crack
ReplyDeleteBreak your mother's back!
If this one were really true
Mothers wouldn't need their shoes!
Yeah that would rhymes though
DeleteSo fun to say at ones show
Delightful...
ReplyDeleteI love old wives tales...and sailor's and farmer's (my father the farm boy would predict the rain by the cows laying down... but how would the cows get to shelter. There were starving children in China...how my eating would help them I couldn't figure out...
and
I can remember when I was angry to be careful not to step on the cracks...I told myself it wasn't true, but couldn't be too careful.
Thanks,
Peace,
Siggi
haha yeah some of them sure make you think
DeleteWhat the hell is the link
I think it's much wiser to get vaccinated against whooping cough so you'd never know what horse breath smells like!
ReplyDeleteYeah prob a better way
DeleteAt any bay
Yeah... I think I'll stick with modern medicine.
ReplyDeleteSadly though, I wouldn't doubt it if people actually still believed in and tried these ridiculous treatments.
Yeah I don't doubt it at all
DeleteAt any hall
It's just my luck,
ReplyDeleteOn thing rhyming thing you got me stuck,
Over on my blog I've been having a rhyming session,
So I thought I'd give your blog a BIG mention,
I'm moving on from this game soon,
Or cows just might jump over the moon....
haha once you go rhyme
DeleteYou hate a mime
Will have a look
At your nook
So many of these old wives' tales make me want to go kiss some animals! (Because I love them, not in a weird way!). So I do like that. And I've never washed clothes on New Year's Day, I'm always face planted on a couch somewhere.
ReplyDeleteGood that it is not in a weird way
DeleteAnd there you go, no fear of the clothes one at your bay
lol at the toad. It's funny some of the superstitions that came about.
ReplyDeleteYeah who knows where they come from
DeleteBut someone had to first give them a hum
Oral tales and superstitions leave us feeling suspicious
ReplyDeleteBut today we have Snopes and It's Rhyme Time to ease our mind :)
Lucy from Lucy's Reality
Can easy away
DeleteEach day at my bay