poetic device: Irony

Irony is when what you expect to happen doesn’t occur, but instead results in the opposite action or effect. For example, if someone were run over by an ambulance, or if you went to “Camp Sunshine” and it rained the whole week.

All of these poems have at least one example of irony each, usually at the end of the poem. See if you can figure out what is ironic in each of these poems.

Payton the Painter by Kenn Nesbitt
Payton the Painter
I'm Thinking of Writing a Poem Today by Kenn Nesbitt
I’m Thinking of Writing a Poem Today
Get Up! Get Up!
My City
Mr. Brown the Circus Clown
My Brother's Lips Are Sealed by Kenn Nesbitt
My Brother’s Lips Are Sealed
I'm Really Good at Texting by Kenn Nesbitt
im rlly gd @ txting
My Mother Said to Clean My Room by Kenn Nesbitt
My Mother Said to Clean My Room
I Wake Today by Kenn Nesbitt
I Wake Today
Brand New Cat by Kenn Nesbitt
Brand New Cat
Hammering a Nail
My Pet Germs
Snake Mistake
The Weasel and the Whale
Brand New Shoes by Kenn Nesbitt
Brand-New Shoes
December I Went Shopping
A Rock Makes an Excellent Puppy
I Made a Wish
School Year Extension by Kenn Nesbitt
School Year Extension
I'm Thankful for Turkey by Kenn Nesbitt
I’m Thankful for Turkey
Captain Talkalot
Michael the Psychic
Modern Popularity
Dreaming of Summer

Whoa There, Pardner!

Hold your horses! Kenn's the sheriff in these here parts and some of this whistle-stop is off-limits except to his deputies.

Join the posse for just one greenback a month to have the run of the place.

I've got my badge. Let me in! No thanks. I'll vamoose!