Miracle Irony Poems

Sometimes I don't know you,
Other times I don't know me,
Sometimes, you are just a stranger crossing the sky's limit,
Other times, you are my dearest brethren.

You...

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Laying down in this comfortable hospital bed with blue
and candid linen sheets that cover my strong legs, 
I harbor no anger for my illness;
I can't...

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There stood a castle on the summit of a hill
Now fallen to decay, hidden among bushes wild
It perched like an eagle’s nest on the steep...

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I’m a man of constant sorrow tripping over guilt and stress
I wear my guilt as a badge of honor, lord, I’m a total mess
Even the...

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wishes,
              suddenly quiet down ...
       ...

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I smiled when the world was ended. I pretended not to care.
I thought it only fair you see, to suffer such indignity with some restraint.
You...

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Looking back, one thing comes clean-glass clear
you were always there for me subduing every fear.

I tried to do my duty, be a husband strong and...

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Potatoes

At dinner the other night, 
mom fixed our favorite. 
She baked them, 
broiled them, 
cut them up,
 and fried them nice. 

She told us,
this was...

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Wow, it turns out Trump was right.
I saw it on “the Onion” - posted overnight.

Scientists woke up today and the virus
was simply gone - the...

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Cockleburs

Small green weeds, 
with little seed pots, 
that stick to your socks. 

They travel with you, 
to the next place, 
that God wants them to...

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Fear of Acceptance

The queen called her jester, 
and requested a joke! 
He had nothing to say, 
He just sat there, 
as he had already choked....

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And there the story might have ended 
But the bite on Suzanne's thumb 
Throbbed and became distended, 
'I must say, I feel a little rum',...

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Tis the Holiday Season
To shop for no good reason
It is for Him,  we are told
But those tales are getting old.
They want you to actually...

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It shatters, breaks even, 
The body. The soul,
It takes even. Depression;
A word so beautifully
Flawed, all the syllables 
Put together forming 
A body, a feeling. Nausea,...

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my mind wanders
as through 
a dense forest
reevaluating
decisions made
across the years
paths taken
those avoided

isn’t life mysterious
thinking we have it
all figured out
only to realize
it’s chaos

at times beautiful
suddenly catastrophic
orderly...

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