Fortune Cookies

Using chopsticks will make you appear wise
As long as you don’t stick them in your eyes

When eating the sweet ‘n’ sour pork
Amateurs would be wise to use a fork

Projecting a cold frown is beyond the worst
While your smile is like a pleasant sunburst

Nuts and bolts are necessary for building machines
But they won’t do much for your hopes and dreams

You might have the strength of iron and steel
But you are not invincible when behind the wheel

A good friend can take away your pain
Like a sand castle dissolving in the rain

I’m tickled pink to deliver your fortune
Your self-quarantine should end by June

Don’t make a bet and don’t call your bookie
I cannot tell your fortune, for I am just a cookie

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Linked to dVerse Poets Pub — MTB: Fall seven times, stand up eight, where Anna Montgomery is the guest host and wants us to employ gnomic poetry, which is the long-lived and loved practice of moralizing in verse.

Linked to Linda Kruschke’s Paint Chip Poetry Challenge Prompt #14. The challenge is to write a poem in response to the prompt card that includes at least five of the seven paint chip words or phrases. The prompt phrase is Good Fortune and the prompt words are nuts and bolts, in your eyes, sand castle, iron, tickled pink, sweet ‘n’ sour, and sunburst.