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Deadpan Poems - Poems about Deadpan

Premium Member Portraits on the wall
...Portraits on the wall, some grand, some small, staring at the people, sat around the table, portraits on the wall, ego show for all in silence they stare, look back if you care, at disjoint......

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Categories: deadpan, emotions, feelings,
Form: Rhyme
Episode one - No limes on Tatooine - A new hope
...I’m drunk, but you’re beautiful, a line I used to rehearse. The Dreamers’ artistic longing felt noble, but it came with a curse. I bought the ticket when I didn’t know better from worse. Now I’v......

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Categories: deadpan, best friend, crazy, drink,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member The Devil's Bouquet
...I see demons I see ghosts Staring at me from the bedposts Gargoyles of grotesquery Statues of misanthropy The Prince of darkness has come for me There's evil in this room I can smell t......

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Categories: deadpan, 12th grade, eve, evil,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Screwball Romance Espinela
...So full of laughter my prince chides, ‘This tale is a screwball romance. Do you enjoy deadpan perchance? I was swept into paper tides. They remind me of us besides, today what else have we to ......

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Categories: deadpan, emotions, humor, romance,
Form: Other
Premium Member watercress loving friend named Bess
...Bess’s expressions were grotesque Most usually weirdly cheerless She is under unusual duress Her family is an utter mess Bess is playing poker more or less Her deadpan expression not needless ......

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Categories: deadpan, 10th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Monorhyme



Waiting
...The snow man stands deadpan under the faint Glow of the lamp, his scarf damp as snowflakes Fall ‘round him, the land grim--isn’t it quaint? The fake smile--what guile!--who would smile like that......

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Categories: deadpan, heartbreak, loneliness, longing, snow,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member the 15 second hex
...I’m tired of influencers faking nervousness. my generation wants to care less these days. it’s a counter-current hack. we want to be less defined. we can search and reflect for ourselves. we’re......

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Categories: deadpan, humor, parody, political, school,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Brat Pack
...With all my movie friends, and tv too, vanishing, I turn my attention to the brat pack. Brandishing life. Ally, Molly, Judd, Spader, Cusack, Gray and more. Out of Bounds on my screen, t......

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Categories: deadpan, age,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member LAWLESS
...Not written for a contest but based on the wit and out of the box chutzpa of a ballsy poet. If Shakespeare shakes his finger at me for breaking Sonnet rules, I will tell him I am a Lawless one, an......

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Categories: deadpan, perspective, poetry,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Bob Newhart-RIP
...Bob Newhart… hope you find a good part for your expression of deadpan in heaven since you kicked the can Bob Newhart… perhaps I meant the bucket, ye old fart made......

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Categories: deadpan, tribute,
Form: Clerihew
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
Premium Member Mountain erring is human - Kafkaesque personification of a mountain
...Mountainous - there's a joke in there somewhere Funny how I just appeared one day Or at least that's how it feels I've observed others rise and fall Whilst I stay put There's more to me, weight,......

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Categories: deadpan, surreal,
Form: Personification
Premium Member almost showed off
...(There’s a song for this: ‘Confessions’ by Sudan Archives) I remember it like it was yesterday (it was yesterday). I arrived on a cool (42°f), blindingly sunny New Haven afternoon. It was as if......

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Categories: deadpan, home, humor, student, travel,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member SURREALISTA picasso at al
...banal                 yet deadpan absurd             clashing             symbols heard           in               the eye           where imagery is                   all dimensions ......

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Categories: deadpan, art,
Form: Didactic
Premium Member Rowan Atkinson
... "You must never say never." Quote _ Rowan Atkinson Rowan Atkinson the hapless Mr. Bean with his facial contortion v......

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Categories: deadpan, tribute,
Form: Clerihew

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