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Expiry Date

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

Categories: expiry, humor, marriage,
Form: Limerick

Check the Expiry Date

if only matters of the heart
came with a map, instructions
or warning signs



AP: Honorable Mention 2025

Categories: expiry, confidence, life, love,
Form: Free verse

Expiry Date

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

Categories: expiry, humor, marriage,
Form: Limerick

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

My Expiry Date's Past

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

Categories: expiry, funny, health, sad,
Form: Rhyme

Expiry Date

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

Categories: expiry, age, angst, future, growing
Form: Free verse

Date of Expiry

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

Categories: expiry, confusion, emotions, love,
Form: Light Verse

Expiry Date

Couple’s last long hug
Wringing every bit of love
An expiry date

Categories: expiry, cute love, love,
Form: Haiku

Expiry Date

EVERYTHING has an expiry date: Yes, even your love

Eileen Manassian Ghali

Categories: expiry, death,
Form: Monoku