Best Wry Poems

spry within the shadows you come
wry amidst the darkness you haunt
i care not what it is you want
why is it my soul you still taunt?

do not taint my mind with your past
you have no power over me
spew your wretched words upon death
strew yourself in its...

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Musta woke with feelings of dread;
I bet that he thought he was dead.
Upon its unmasking,
The question I’m asking:
’Twas the ghost of white or wheat bread?


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H/T to The Ghost II by Daisy Ward...

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My heart is a charcoal gray
With silver specks in the sun
Tomorrow is New Year's Day
And this old year, my dear, is done

A bit of moss on the north knoll
The hills of my heart burrowed through
And I'm cramming hope in the holes
Just like the woodpeckers do....

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Her answer was sarcastically wry
The look she gave out made me cry
Something so simple, went so wrong
I started to toot my own horn
Her eyes rolling made me sigh
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So I drove the van down a walking trail,
and slid into a ditch.
The Officers with voices hale
Began the walkers to regale
With "Oh, no, he won't go to jail!"

My van was tilt at such a pitch,
We had to call a wrecker in!
No doubt they thought it...

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The man was strong
The man was bold
Didn't listen to the rest unfold

He took in his culture, pride
He wore his kilt, with pride
Did it make him less of a man? Sigh.
Did it make a lass of the man? Wry.

Forgo these ancient thoughts
That make the thinker less...

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In the dusk of night,
My heart that yearns for joy and light,
In the hope of my Prince Charming, my Knight.

Twilight’s foreseen,
The unknown heartbreaks my heart has seen,
In the hope of true love, one of a kind and never been.

Has there been any better joy,
Than having...

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