Best Expiry Poems
Couple’s last long hug
Wringing every bit of love
An expiry date
The face in the mirror
Looks back at me
It’s not a face
I’m happy to see
It’s withered and aged
Like a wrinkled old prune
My expiry date’s past
God, please let me die soon
My bones they do creak
Like an old rocking chair
My aches and my pains
Throw me into despair
They can burn my old carcass
That'll give others more room
My expiry date’s past
God, please let me die soon
My eyes don’t see clearly
Just a shadowy haze
My precious equipment down under
Has seen better days
I’m a sad lonely soul
And a deaf old buffoon
My expiry date’s past
God, please let me die soon
My ticker ain’t ticking
The way tickers should
Doc says the plaque in my heart
Is restricting the blood
It’s a sick ticking time bomb
Oh dear I’m full of doom
My expiry date’s past
God, please let me die soon
My plumbing below
Sounds like an orchestral disaster
And to get to the washroom
I now need to run faster
Maybe put me down quickly
Then some will be over the moon
My expiry date’s past
God, please let me die soon
I wheeze all day long
My chest feels aflame
The doc in his wisdom
Says the smokings to blame
I could not climb a molehill
And I look like a balloon
My expiry date’s past
God, PLEASE let me die soon
EVERYTHING has an expiry date: Yes, even your love
Eileen Manassian Ghali
if only matters of the heart
came with a map, instructions
or warning signs
AP: Honorable Mention 2025
DATE OF EXPIRY
Startled enchanted in your charisma.
Romantic aroma flowed whelming me.
Your glance glowed glistened, I listened to your dormant desire
Bubbling blood flooded drowning me in deep abyss.
Emerald emotive urge surged in opulence
Seven heavens stepped on my salient soul.
Never apprehended love cascading in folic flow could cease.
Compelled to admit, everything holds date of expiry including emotion.
02/02/19
Edited on 05/09/20
Third Place
'BRIAN'S CHOICE 7' Contest by Brian Strand.
She: for long have you been staring at
This scrap of marriage certificate!
He: see, foods lose freshness,
Wed-locks no less I guess,
Yet, this one has no expiry date!
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Tongue-in-cheek | 03.02.15 |
Food items packaged and sold must come with a best-before date, the administration finally decides at long last. And why not, for, everything in life has a best-before date, perhaps, even marriages.
By oversight this limerick, though with differing text, is repeated. The later version is dated 06.07.2023.
At times we wonder
About our fate
Our destiny
Our future
The days their number
What’s around the corner
Our blissful ignorance
Mingled with
Fretful anxiety
We say we’d like to know
But could we handle it
Best live day to day
AP: Honorable Mention 2020
Posted on March 15, 2019
Look at this darn marriage certificate,
A piece of paper that has sealed our fate,
If packed things can’t stay fresh,
So does mind, human flesh,
But still I see no such expiry date!
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Tongue-in-cheek | 06.07.2023 | humour, marriage
Poet’s note: Seeing her husband pouring over a piece of marriage certificate, she asks if anything was wrong.
By oversight this limerick is repeated (though with differing text), the earlier one dated 03.03.15.