Deadpan Poems

Cassie the Witch

...Cassie, a green faced witch could not find the right kind of man
I think I’ll make an elixir and create him, she would deadpan
She actually did it, wearing her fanciest ruffled dress
It had not be...

By the Streetlamp

...
                                             By the Streetlamp


                                    Secrets held by the streetlamp,
                                        Delightful, sad or w...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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
...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

SURREALISTA picasso at al

...banal
                yet
deadpan
absurd
            clashing
            symbols
heard
          in
              the eye
          where
imagery
is
                  all

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