Poetry: Rules - by Dan Warren

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by Dan Warren

Created on: May 21, 2008

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Resuscitation is not an option.
Breathing must be maintained,
Life assured.
Then it can't vanish.
Stepping on breakable ice will more than likely result in an extended period of time spent without breath.
Not stepping on breakable ice is boring.
Running into traffic can be deadly.
Breathing can be deadly.
Death can be lively.
You are not permitted to step beyond this area.
But you can if you want,
And you'll be shot.
The road is always slippery when wet,
What kind of idiot doesn't know that?

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by Toni Doswell

Rules are not made for fools.
They are made for the wise.
Wise people find rules important to guide,
While fools find them
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by April Self

She gasped in shock and horror,
and the teacher's proclamation.
"If you don't behave and do as I say,
wave goodbye to spring
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by Jay O'Toole

Our rules are based upon the Right,
The Standard that we choose,
Without these guides, we'd live by might,
Mankind we'd daily
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by Oluwasegun P. Gbolagun

If a man cannot obey simple rules

Do not make him a ruler

He will draw crooked lines

Rulers are obedient servants
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by King John

A statute or law is a rule of civil conduct;

A canon is a rule of ecclesiastical government;

The precept or command

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