Wisdom, like coffee, is never good instant.
You hold the keys to success. Don’t lock them in the trunk.
Chinese Zodiac gone bad: the snake swallows the rabbit.
Chinese Zodiac revenge: the horse tramples the snake.
The dragon breathes on the horse, making a fire horse.
Secrets are best kept in the bones, far from the mouth.
You will be hungry later. Swallow the rabbit.
Be prepared to get stepped on.
Susan Daniels Poetry 
the last line does step on us. i love how you make me think, you somersault my mind.
Thanks, Shrinks. This one was fun, coming up with strange fortune cookie one-liners.
Wow! Very nice play on Zodiac animal symbolism. Swallow the rabbit indeed, the path is clear! ☼
Hee, hee. Thank you!
secrets are best buried, not kept, in the bones!
I like the staggering canter of this poem!
Thanks, Noel! Oh, I just thought of something. A series of Igbo sayings written as one-liners would make a great “fortune cookie” poem, Noel-style…And I agree. Those secrets belong in the marrow.
Love these, especially the one about the keys!
Thanks, Adriene!
Oh yes … ‘Secrets are best kept in the bones …’ Brilliant 🙂
Hee, hee. Thanks, Polly!
I can see I’ve been using the wrong takeout joint.
Hee, hee. Think this could be my future calling?
Brilliant, this is achingly clever…love it!! 🙂
Thanks! This was fun!
What fun these are. I want these in the fortune cookies from now on. 😉
Thanks, Alice! I do feel sorry for the rabbit 😉
Swallow that rabbit and then shout it out of your throat.;-)
Oh, I like that!
Wow. Susan, this is definitely one that reverberates. The last stanza is mindblowing!
Amazing work!
Thanks, Miri! It was fun!
This looked like a lot of fun. Mine it for everything.
Definitely will do that!
I love the subject matter on how waiting is better than instant gratification. I also really enjoyed the analogy with Chinese Zodiac on how selfishness in essence is a vicious cycle and will only repeat itself in the end. Until broken. Great poem!
Thanks, John. Looks like you are in here doubled, but no worries there–Loved the insightful comment. Thanks for sharing it.
I love the subject matter on how waiting is better than instant gratification. I also really enjoyed the analogy with Chinese Zodiac on how selfishness in essence is a vicious cycle and will only repeat itself in the end. Until broken. Great poem!
Thank you!
I laughed
I cried
I scratched my head.
Hee, hee! Thanks!
oh, great start to my Monday. your one-liners are perking up my creativity center!
Thank you, Jane!
Secrets are best kept in the bones… Amen sister, Amen!
Hahaha–thank you!
Trampled underfoot for knowing when to observe and learn. Stepping into the unknown, following a trail in search of a cure, abandoning everything to the chase, it didn’t take wisdom, an effort powered by desperation.
Yes!