Best Deadpan Poems
My Aminus Brain
...I am of soft, delicate skinned casing,
Housing an iron, logical facing.
I grant my femininity free reign
To follow dictates of my manlike brain.
My seductive charms can attract a man,
But he......
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Categories:
deadpan, character, judgement, smart, strength,
Form:
Couplet
For Jan - a Collaboration
...A Tribute to Jan Allison, I miss her on PS!
There's a sweet woman I know as Jan,
a valued member of the soup clan.
Her limericks are the best,
Poop humor above the rest!
Her long absence has......
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Categories:
deadpan, friend, miss you,
Form:
Limerick
What Went Wrong
...In twilight,
the noose tightens-
and shadows start walking
towards you; to reclaim
your anonymity-
and declare in deadpan manner:
the author is dead.
Your smallness goes
on sale. You are su......
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Categories:
deadpan, art,
Form:
Free verse
Gossiping With Zephyrs
...
Green!
Alive
on tall grass,
blithe, lithe, limber,
swaying long and lean
in their beachy masses.
The deadpan sand eavesdrops as
breezes wave blades like silk banners.
Whispers whir with eme......
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Categories:
deadpan, beauty, happiness, joy, nature,
Form:
Etheree
Monday With Blue Brushes
...Still life. What bite have my grapes and plums?
I capture the glaucous coating — the powdery residue.
A fairytale gown needs just the right godmother-dusting of azure.
The sparkling suds and ......
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Categories:
deadpan, art,
Form:
Free verse
A Filly, Bovine
...I knew a filly, thought she was bovine
Whenever she talked, out came this line
‘I am man’s best friend’
This girl would deadpan
'He drinks my milk ~ He is udderly fine'......
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Categories:
deadpan, confusion, friend, horse,
Form:
Limerick
The Library
...I read, like an open book
All others can see the words written on my pages.
I contain tales, read as secretive,
A hushed whisper that only a handful have seen.
But how many times has this book ......
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Categories:
deadpan, abuse, analogy, culture, solitude,
Form:
Free verse
Fib 42
...I
Can
Deadpan
Take more than
Any other man
This will be my unwritten plan
Continuing to take silence time and time again
From the most beautiful woman
Till I'm an old man
Madman
Can
I......
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Categories:
deadpan, dedication, devotion, forgiveness, love,
Form:
Fibonacci
Coplas On Wine By Nicanor Parra, Translated By T Wignesan
...Coplas on Wine
( here, the famous AntiPoetic Chilean Poet Nicanor Parra, b. 1914, uses the more popular form of the « copla » genre that he contains in quatrains of 8 to 10 syllables with two l......
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Categories:
deadpan, celebration, passion, poetry, song,
Form:
Quatrain
Night Hawker
...One lonely, chilly night, I awoke to faintly hear
a rap, rap, rap coming from my front door knocker.
Too curious to ignore, I opened it a crack, and there
stood a man, tall and wan, a strange ni......
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Categories:
deadpan, night, scary,
Form:
Rhyme
Spectacular Smiles
...S pectacular smiles worn by schoolgirls.
P owerful and poetic when the answer is right.
E ngraved-in-anger in case of a fight.
C oward smiles on home-work not done.
T ight-lipped smile is just fo......
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Categories:
deadpan, school, smile, student,
Form:
Acrostic
Sonnet 14, Part 1 of 3
...1. Ripples in warm sunbeams dwell.
From a sandy cocoon I wake and stir.
A floater in the blue does knell,
A dot, a stain, a blackened blur.
Am I the only one who sees?
No, the beach is afoot wit......
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Categories:
deadpan, evil, fantasy, fear, horror,
Form:
Sonnet
Time and Tide Wait For No Man
...Or Woman, Or Child, Or...
The following elucidated
conjecture actually can
(reed best) be taken with a grain
of salt, and no re ban
nah nah split 'ope ya 'ere me
cloud and lea......
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Categories:
deadpan, 11th grade, 7th grade,
Form:
Enclosed Rhyme
Third Worst Clatter of Antimatter
...THIRD WORST CLATTER OF ANTIMATTER
clatter of antimatter
alien dishes splatter
(the shape of spaceships)
his antennas* whir with rising
he considers going wireless
a dish flying ......
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Categories:
deadpan, humor,
Form:
Vogon Poetry
Intermission - Flutterby Reveille
...
"Intermission: Flutterby Reveille"
Impromptu like a moth
pale words flutter out of his
psychodelic mind
curious funny flutterby…
for a s......
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Categories:
deadpan, cute, humor, inspirational, muse,
Form:
Free verse