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UN-NEEDINESS
Categories:
irony,
Form: Monoku
Precision
The sport of golf demands precision
baseball, perfect vision...
Although more popular than them all
~ football’s just collision*
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Categories:
irony, baseball, football, golf, how
Form: Rubai
unbaredOur needs are boundless -
our wounds sensitive -
better not to bare them
- lest we invite opinion,
debate and comparison,
or worse yet, sympathy (euuww).
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Songs for this..
If You’re Too shy (Let me know) by The 1975
Musta Been A...
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Categories:
angst, character, humor, irony,
Form: Free verse
Categories:
allegory, bible, christian, irony,
Form: Grook
I Hear YouI hear your shallow breathing
Groans and sharp inhales
Of oxygen through your teeth
Wet shoes at the 7-11 and the Chinese Zodiac
I hear, “Can I get a room key?”
Slamming doors and...
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Categories:
betrayal, heartbreak, heartbroken, irony,
Form: Free verse
The IndescribableThe indescribable
Appears as
Describable
Rendering the
Describable
As indescribable......
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Categories:
i am, irony, words,
Form: Light Verse
BLANKETY-BLANK VERSEAlas it is a chore to write Blank Verse
Unable to peruse my rhyme filled purse
In search for words not better but not worse
A sad lament of poetry’s last curse
To stab the darkness with an ill-used...
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Categories:
humor, irony, muse, words,
Form: Verse
Another Sunny DayAnother sunny day -
Birds sing outside my door.
I can't hear them. It seems
I've spilled milk on the floor,
And mother loudly screams.
Another sunny day -
We learn the Golden Rule,
And go...
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Categories:
dark, humor, irony, sun,
Form: Monchielle Stanza
Sins ‘Tis through God’s grace we're able to withstand
inane commissions of the human mind.
We question why but never understand
then search for answers that we’ll never find.
We scan our thoughts where evil bides within
and wonder...
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Categories:
holocaust, irony, philosophy, prejudice,
Form: Sonnet
Disillusionmenton a silent night,
the shadows surge.
seeking the light,
on life's eerie verge.
nothing’s more kinder
to my fading heart,
than the sore reminder
of my pervading art.
in my restless void,
dreams will emerge.
things once enjoyed,
now just an urge.
all paths lead to...
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Categories:
irony, deep, depression, extended metaphor,
Form: Free verse
Crunching away but I'm not hungrySo I am hungry
Now I wait for my food but
My heart eats itself...
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Categories:
anxiety, emotions, food, irony,
Form: Haiku
Invisible Poetry Soup, Part Nummer 9
Categories:
irony,
Form: Epigram
Salman Rushdie Goes Public
Salman Rushdie, advocate of Palestinian statehood for forty years
Now publicly acknowledges what he greatly fears
That 'Palestine' would be run by Hamas, and be a client state...
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Categories:
celebrity, integrity, irony, visionary,
Form: Couplet
evil empire ironyWhen 1953 began
Iran’s oil annexation plan
Meant seizing our stuff
But the CIA’s tough
And installed the Shah as he-man
Since Iran’s parliament was dead
And Muslims brutally bled
The people rebelled
But what came next spelled
By an ayatollah they’d be led...
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Categories:
bullying, evil, history, irony,
Form: Limerick
Go with the Flow?Go with the flow they say,
But what's the point of it?,
When you can't even stop when you need to,
When you can't take ur time to enjoy the view,
Cause you'll be going in a flow,
A flow...
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Categories:
freedom, irony, journey, lost,
Form: Free verse
Specific Types of Irony Poems
Definition | What is Irony in Poetry?
Poems Related to Irony
twist, paradox, wit, humor, satire, criticism, repartee, quip, mockery, taunt, banter, ridicule, incongruity, burlesque, jibe, contrariness, raillery, reproach, derision, contempt, mordancy, sardonicism,