Best Cancelled Poems

Cancel email came after work
So of course three of us missed it
Other nine stayed off the ice
Comfy in their jammies
Eating sweet warm toast
Watching TV
Annoying
Us Three
Lots...

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So, what would you have me write?
Dulcet words of limply lurid metaphor
stuttering staccato of acceptable alliteration
preposterously impersonal personification
drab and dreary diluted imagery
innocently innocuous innuendo
insouciantly inane sonnets
neutered non-rapier wit
squishy, soft white bread limericks
fettered faint hearted free verse
sanctimoniously soft spoken rants
devoid of do’s and don’ts, can’s and...

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We’ve CANCELLED your job 
Immediately
but you have been renewed
to enter a field with a better aim
to CANCEL out your dated brain
to secure you with a daunting task
to invalidate your former mask
of a 9 to 5 mentality
and learn to speak with authority
This is your desk and...

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Good News—Basketball Season May Be Cancelled

By Elton Camp

Of outrageously overpaid, whiny jocks I don’t care 
For fifty years I haven’t watched a game anywhere

When in college, some of our team’s players I knew
Mention a present basketball star & I respond, “Who?”

I don’t know the details...

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There's no Christmas this year
There will be no Christmas cheer
For Santa checked the naughty list
And found himself a naughty miss
Then picked her up in his sleigh
And then flew her off to St Tropez...

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Rudolph slipped on an ice covered roof
And landed sideways throwing up a hoof
It caught Santa on the side of his head
Dazed; he fell off the roof now he's dead.




Written 18th December 2020 .

Christmas Chastushka - Rules Revised. 

Sponsored By Andrea Dietrich. ...

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There’ll be no trick or treaters knocking on our door.
Just us candy eaters watching movies on the floor.
Halloween is cancelled because of all the rain...
and to get up in the morning we’re gonna need a crane....

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They came to stand in silent pose,
Along the shore as tide arose.
They watched the tide flow to and fro,
And like the sea! Nowhere to go!
Oh so soon, swift passing days,
Yes time does steal one's youth away.
It leaves them standing all alone.
With no one left and...

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Superman Show Was Cancelled

Started to embark
We ran into Joan of Arc
Was with Kent a Clark.

Wrote cute canticle
And song purpose did fulfil
Then fired at w(W)ill.

Will had not been well
Our singing seemed to be swell
William had to t(T)ell

Recently had heard
Kent had been sealed in cement
So show was...

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I studied and swotted
Til my eyes were on stalks
Went to all the lectures
Really listened when prof talked

Was up at night, just one thing on my mind
The end of term exam, good result required
Ate very little, skin looked a mess
Slept as I sat on a chair,...

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A parcel  postman named Claus
in 2020 had reason to pause
Covid19 pandemic ,we can relate
made poorly Santa ,for ten days  isolate....

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They cancelled Christmas in Washington DC because they couldn't find three wise men.

John G. Lawless
11/22/2022...

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I should have said yes,
meet you anywhere you want
for lunch, even that greasy spoon
with the lousy chili and corn dogs.
Every five years or so we meet
to recall the bad old days
and you always tell me that’s the way 
they make chili and corn dogs 
at...

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Calvary Cancelled Our Debt

Calvary Cancelled the Debt
We owe to our God;
For we have all sinned
The right path not always trod.
We are covered with robes
Of His white righteousness,
Because God gifted His son;
Showed His love is boundless.

We owe Him so much,
But He knew we couldn’t pay.
So instead...

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An international battlefield was scheduled this year 
Postponed due to an invisible fear 
A misunderstood sensitive diplomatic situation 
Displaying theatrical health care patients 
Put off an artistic war 
Where the death toll is replaced by a game score 
As we interpret what really happened 
Hopefully...

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