Short Retort Poems

You said to keep it short.
Don't expect a retort!...

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birds retort
wind whispers riddles untold
patience hears...

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mortified, red-colored burns
“OH NO!”
perfect retort
on the way down the stairs

10/27/2022...

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Intellect equiped with quips
              charging a quick wit
            rocket fire resort retort...

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DWARVES
They’re short
But retort
To other sorts
GIANTS

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October 8, 2016...

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Chocolate

Chocolate? That's not a sport! 
Do flavours not compete I retort

But it's not a game you play!
Which one to eat I say...

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'Your computer just might be at risk'
'There is not enough room on your disk'
Oh yeah? I retort with distain
There's PLENTY of space in my brain!...

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There once was a man with a passion,
a passion for clothing in fashion.
But when money was short
he was sad to retort,
“I ration my passion for fashion”....

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A Turquoise Noise

Green is gift, I share.
   Hachoo noise made from the spray
and flew through the air.

Excuse, me!


by Martin Braun
July 2, 2023...

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Betty had a good buddy whose name was Jack
His brown bunny she took for a verbal attack
This retort she had
Made her feel too bad
So Betty brought her buddies brown bunny back!...

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Here lies Emmett Kermit Lavender
Whose time was summarily cut short
When he insulted his English professor
With an unnecessarily caustic retort 

written April 26, 2022...

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Mr. Tim's fired a limerick back at me
Usually I give 'em, not get 'em you see
Surprised me somewhat
Coz I'm not one to strut
When I do, I rent out my body for free!

© Jack Ellison 2015...

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"You can't!" the world snorted;
                                  "Yes I can," you fired back.
                                        Your proud retort
                                       Some proof did lack....

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His wife called him a good for nothing rat
         As in his armchair old Jim sat,
    Jim retorted with a very broad grin,
 You know you will never get a double chin,
Because all that exercise is bound to kill fat....

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Why do socks seem to disappear?
 I can’t find a matching pair!
Not wanting to develop a syndrome
When anyone comments on my odd flair,
I retort with apparent savoir faire:
Yes I’ve another pair jus’ like’em at ‘ome!...

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If assholes could fly, this place would be an airport
So what's happened recently to cause this retort
It's too gruesome to tell
A fate worse than hell
Someone stole my spaceship which caused a space warp...

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There once was a girl with strawberry lips,
when she walked she like to show off her hips,
all her skirts were way too short,
to sneers she had a retort;
JEALOUS ? ... walking on with some dips and flips !...

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a showpiece
a speciality
        to 
           declaim:
visually clever
a retort even
to circulate:
enfolded
in a prestigious
compendium
of the poetsirregular&glib-
a hackneyed canticle
to provoke
           or not...

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Subject and Object,
who builds the bridge
From either perspective,
to laud or forgive

First person invective,
third person retort
The toll for each crossing
  —forever deports

(Villanova Pennsylvania: September, 2020)...

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Staring at a screen, waiting for a like
to some witty retort, he’d posted
took up the bulk of his waking hours;
sometimes he got a few, sometimes not.
This is how he measured his popularity;
distance from reality slowly extending....

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hey
i just
came 
to play

no need
for such 
words
you

are a ninety
nine pound
for pound
weakling

throwing
beach sand
and urine
scented litter

in other's
eyes but
i'm better
than that

jeff stop
dogging
my
cat...

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Virtue when expressive,
deafens bad intention

Its voice to live beyond,
excuses and retort

A minstrel plays a song unsung,
as sages rise to dance

All words rephrased in lyric tones
—the devil mute and gone

(Villanova Pennsylvania: October, 2019)...

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If I'm to be the neck
you fit inside a noose,
then spin me up a soul.

When you can define it -
and find it -
you let me know.

Until then, Mother-Father
fix your own malfunctions.

This universe
is your slaughterhouse.

I just work here....

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Seven,daughters to the heavens sent

Seven..God's retort to Job's lament

Seven..renown poets from 3 BC

Seven..wise men of Greece we see

Seven..clusters sail the sky so free-

Seven scholars counsel King Charlemagne

Seven... a group name for fame...

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April reversed backward retort as Lirpa
     Plurally to be continued as April's ect.
     Rose's may be red literally in said so of April 
     Ignorant to some , inspired by to as well
     LaDawn comes medial of this that here name 
        acrostic poem...

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