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Dry Humor Poems - Poems about Dry Humor

Per Paparazzi

...Watching & waiting while in hiding
and faking
Views for the taking but unaware
what is waiting
Freezing & shaking but is it fear or
its weather?
Snapshots for the taking posing for 
them cuz i...

Categories: dry humor, meaningful, perspective, philosophy, poetry,
Form: Rhyme

Puzzling Relationship

...Puzzling Relationship 

Our edges seem so similar
Meant to fit, snuggly together 
The tongue of your dry humor
Locks into the Grove of my clever wit
Forming attachments in every aspect of our l...

Categories: dry humor, change, divorce, extended metaphor,
Form: Free verse

I Posit Picayune Propensities Prevail Among Pesky Management

...I posit picayune propensities prevail among pesky management

Most favored renter status imposed on us
i.e. meaning myself;
(one tarnished prince of Highland Manor)
and the missus, his princess ...

Categories: dry humor, abuse, america, angst, anxiety,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

John Hamilton

...John is a Christian man, a philosopher, and a poet that 
offers his talents, beliefs, and insights to all 
honestly, openly, and with a compassionate, understanding heart,
...

Categories: dry humor, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Acrostic

Distant Friends

...Sometimes friends that are far away
can be your best friend
He lives in Malta
Which is 7,609 km in distance from where I am
I came to PoetrySoup in Jan of 2016
Obviously, at first, I...

Categories: dry humor, friendship, inspiration, mentor,
Form: Narrative

Saguaro

...There once was a shutterbug named Louie
Whose dry humor was a trifle screwy.
To a saguaro he said
Hands up lest I shoot you dead.
A shot; a flash; kablooey went Louie.

Date: 07/01/2019
Sponso...

Categories: dry humor, crazy, humor, humorous, irony,
Form: Limerick

Blues For Rafaa

...We worked together
in the airless cubicle gulag
on the surface of the moon
during the last ice age

Diligently scurrying under
the bright artificial lights
composing odes to poverty
with grea...

Categories: dry humor, death, death of a
Form: Elegy

Thunderous Applause

...A summer storm has struck upon the stage.
Like clouds, faces in the crowd change to black. 
As lightning triggers sudden disengage,
tonight’s entertainment can stay on track. 
The wit he’s stored...

Categories: dry humor, humor, rain, summer,
Form: Rhyme

Transient Man

...He said it out loud, as if for them to hear
I think I'm done here
Departure time has drawn near
He said it again, like a song

He said he would fold his clothes
Place them in a grocery bag
Whi...

Categories: dry humor, addiction, allegory, allusion, analogy,
Form: Elegy

Me Thinks

...OH NO ME THINKS I HAVE DRY HUMOR

ME THINKS

Me thinks my foot went under
Oh what a sight I do utter
My man did say a hard blunder
Oh no, I did do a shiver
I now see him go asunder..


Jus...

Categories: dry humor, fun, humor, nonsense,
Form: Light Verse

Remembering....Ron

...Each of us has a unique set of memories when we think of someone.  Each of us has our 
own "piece" of him that we take through life.  These few are just some of the memories I 
keep as treasures of...

Categories: dry humor, brother, death, dedication, family,
Form: Blank verse

Question

...Who are you?
A seamingly simple question. That just requires a four word answer.
I am my name, but that is not my answer.
My blood is southern aritcrat, with the pride of the wandering gypsey in m...

Categories: dry humor, people, philosophy, social, me,
Form: Free verse