Family Irony Poems

Wealth, a siren's charm, alluring and bright
A pillow's softness, a thimble's gentle might
It provides for earthly needs, a feast to behold
Yet, in its depths, a...

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   No highlights today
   My family's away
     I miss them more than I can say

  ...

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oh, the irony...

glued
to electronic devices 
designed to foster
connectedness, 
yet the yawning gulf 
between relationships
w   i   d   e  ...

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they thought Sheila was timid and timorous
she fooled them with her quietude
and her lack of participation in family debates

no one saw her as cunning or...

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Tortoise looked, couldn't see, hare disappeared.
Only him, tortoise win, hare reappeared.

the sportsmanship that
honesty competes often
eludes the cheaters

The Word of Life is joy everlasting.
In the game...

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I've heard that song before,
I've seen that dance too.

You think that we don't know,
what it is that you do.

You run your mouth about me,
as if...

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Where to run?
There's nowhere to go
Where to hide?
I can't go below

I cry, I cry
I sigh, I sigh

The world's a mess
As am I 
So when I'm...

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Sisters

My best friend
And worst enemy
Just leave me alone
Always there for me
I steal her clothes 
We share everything
She buys me things
That she needs

Envious again
Competing beauty
They say...

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Shelly came running in with her heart on both sleeves
I am in love again! She yelled. Nothing new at Family Reunion McVees.
Shelly is always in...

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Dawn of spring brings chickens in the family way
When humans are busy gazing at the flowers,
The chickens have got their love priorities right
Instead of lazing...

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'Twas 
bit
of a joke
for most
of the folk
that had
rallied round
the town
'twas
the first
I heard
a bit absurd
so I
went and
asked around
'twas
up the
hill and
down again
until
I found
my friend
'twas
then I
learned
he too
not heard
what...

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Lee had dreamed of a woman with blue eyes.
It is only a dream! Everyone told him.
I think she is my soul mate, he said.
I am...

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he left his family to serach for diamonds
did not see him for fifty years
the next owner of his home
found the world's largest diamond mine
under the...

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My mother was talking to her friend and I was drawing fruit on an Izal toilet roll.
Only because we didn’t have any writing paper and...

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I thought good , long and hard

I even thought outside the box

I knocked on every single door 

Of those family and friends I still new

I...

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