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Best Burlesque Poems

Below are the all-time best Burlesque poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of burlesque poems written by PoetrySoup members


A Bad Day At the Eye Doctor's- a True Story
"It was 6 or 7 years ago
Or so I'd like to think
I traveled to my eye doctor..
(I should'a seen a "shrink"!!)

My dad and I we...

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© Tom Bell  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: funny, life, mystery, me,
Form: Burlesque



Premium Member The Poetic Justice
As legend has it, there lived Bai Balkhash, a rich man
In the North regions of the then Soviet Kazakhstan
Had a beautiful daughter Ili who was...

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Categories: romance,
Form: Burlesque
Kissing a Fat Woman
Kissing the lips of a fat woman 
Is delicious like Tania 
It feels like sliding on the slippery floor 
But you only will not fall...

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Categories: love hurts,
Form: Burlesque
Clouded Mirror
The intricate and winding complexity of this aged device groans as its worn exterior strains.

Though delicate, it punctures through the malice of fools' logic, gripping...

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© Paul K K  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: allegory, appreciation, beauty, emotions,
Form: Burlesque
Premium Member Chloee and Reginald the Stand Down Dachshund Comedians
One

Chloee? Yes Reginald! 
Why do they call us Dachshunds, Wiener Dogs?
Maybe they call you a Wiener Reginald!
You cut me off at the legs with that one...

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Categories: funny, humor, humorous, roses
Form: Burlesque



Smelly Poop
Poop is a smelly thing
poop is far from clean
when I poop, I poop on the pot
when I poop, I poop a lot
It's big and brown...

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Categories: funny,
Form: Burlesque
Exotic Dancer
Do people think you are sleazy and bad,
since the day you replied to that want ad?
The words were in black and white, and plain.
“No Experience...

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Categories: life, on work and
Form: Burlesque
Literacy
What is the state of the language?
How should we use the words?
How much can we elaborate
Before we're dismissed as nerds?...

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Categories: education,
Form: Burlesque
Satan In My Bowels
Satan in my bowels
All I can say is 'ow'
Cringing and churning
My biscuits are burning
I’m praying for relief
Some sort of lanolin leaf
Wondering why I wasn’t born
Before...

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Categories: funny, introspection, nature,
Form: Burlesque
It's All In the Swing
Who says I’m getting old?
My hairs are not gray
Its beautiful sterling silver
The finest silver around
Who says I’m getting old?
My face isn’t bright red
I’m not having...

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Categories: funny
Form: Burlesque
Rude Hood
Once there was a girl, little hood,

She was a fine mamma, looking good.

Hood decided to take a walk

Didn’t see the wolf watching her like a...

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Categories: funnybaby, baby,
Form: Burlesque
Premium Member A Hummerous Life
In times like this it’s pertinent to stroke the longest cord
for hummer is impertinent and seldom brings discord.
Each slippery politician who runs yelling, “Come on...

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Categories: funny, political, satire,
Form: Burlesque
Man
I’m a man
In case you couldn’t see
I don’t use the word “poopie”
And I’m addicted to TV
I’m a man
Who doesn't have time to bleed
But who still...

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Categories: father, funny, introspection, life,
Form: Burlesque
Hiv Positive
HIV Positive

I am HIV positive that I know,
But I will exercise my civic right,
As my blood continues to flow,
For my views to be heard I...

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Categories: health, me, me,
Form: Burlesque
The Body Pillow
I have trouble sleeping,
Yes, that's true,
No matter how many blankets heaping,
They all wind up on the floor,
Yes, that's makin' me blue,
And I don't wanna' stay...

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© Tom Bell  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: adventure, funny, satire,
Form: Burlesque

Book: Shattered Sighs