If the beard were all, the goat might preach.

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On a fool's beard the barber learns to shave.

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Trim my beard, and I will trim your top-knot.

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Turning Pages

Naiveté in younger years
And meager sense between my ears
What interested me the most
Were comic strips within the Post.

“Deep in Bengalla
Woods within the famed Skull Cave
The masked Phantom waits...”

Throughout advancing teenage years
My interest turned to social spheres
Again the Post is what I read
To see the people who were wed.

“Maryann Fulmer
And Nolan Zane Fullerton
Were married March 3rd….”

Turning the pages to sixty
I sport a silver-white goatee.

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poem by Albert Ahearn
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Beard and cloak do not make one a philosopher.

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He wants to learn how to shave using my beard.

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When your beard appears, childhood disappears.

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I see the beard and cloak, but I don't yet see a philosopher.

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It is not the beard that makes the philosopher.

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Lilly billy-goat hab beard by big bull hab none.

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Mixed Three Liners

winter blue
a flash of white
on taxi's top

daymoon
sounds of scissors
from impatient barber

soon
a river that wont
reflect the moon

irked by her
constant shouts
to keep children quiet

storm
the gods paint
the whole sky grey

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poem by John Tiong Chunghoo
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If a beard were all, the goat would be the winner.

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Maybe! Maybe! Maybe if your aunt had a beard, she'd be your uncle.

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A kiss without a beard is like an egg without salt.

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If my aunt had a beard, this man would be my uncle.

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It is a base thing to tear a dead lion's beard off.

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Play, play, with the beard of the father also play?

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The first thing that God created was his own beard.

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A man without a beard is like bread without a crust.

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Even hares pull a lion by the beard when he is dead.

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