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Best Nonsense Poems

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


There Is No Telling the Things You Might Find
Picking a rose in a garden of Sundays
Calling your name on a broken branch wind
Looking for clover where weeds are not welcome
Walking the bridge till...

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Categories: fun, love, nonsense,
Form: Rhyme



Trim Trimmer Chicken Dinner Winner
I don’t know tic tac toe
so I rhyme this with flow,
showing Nick Nac knows 
how to serve the perfect dose.

Measuring the rhymes
like I’m pleasuring the...

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© Nick Trim  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: nonsense, character, confidence, cool, freedom,
Form: Rhyme
Hogwash
Twas a fine October morning,
one September, last July!
The moon lay thick upon the ground,
the mud shone in the sky!

The flowers sang so sweetly,
the birds were...

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Categories: nonsense,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member A Bedtime Story
Once, a long ways away, and a long time ago
Lived a wee little man with his silly pet crow;
And once every day, as the sun...

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Categories: bird, children, nonsense, nursery
Form: Couplet
Premium Member My Long Walk Home
T'was freezing cold and I struggled in the heat
I was pleased I'd put warm gloves on my feet
I shouldn't have been out on such a...

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Categories: humor, nonsense,
Form: Rhyme



The Lonely Plobawobby
In a pond beside a meadow
Where the slime and algae gurgle
Dwells a lonely Plobawobby
Lurking deep in murky waters.
There in sludgy weedication
All day long alone he...

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Categories: imagination, nonsense,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Caveman Speaking
You ask me why I live in cave
Caveman not want to be a slave
I take a chance and look around
I see that people act like...

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© Bill Baker  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: change, crazy, life, nonsense,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member My Weakness
GOD

Wondrous of many blessings.
Smiling never a frown.
My prayers, Lord, are  suddenly being ignored.
I've taken a tumble of  fallen down
Lord, my life was plain...

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Categories: nonsense, absence, abuse, confusion, faith,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Fine Flavor Between Lines
Is it Love
a simple bowl of ice cream
sweating from the heat
cherries on the top
huddled 'round and looking sweet
two little wooden paddles
pretend that they are spoons
as...

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Categories: food, funny, humorous, nonsense,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member - Ass In Hole -
This is the donkey; Alice

                 ... follows the rabbit...

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Categories: blue, humor, nonsense, pain,
Form: Prose Poetry
'pardon Me, Could You Pass the Grey Poupon'
Winds caressing fringes of
   her deep chocolate tresses
as tree nymphs nimbly hid
  midst fallen maple leaves 
    happily prancing...

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© Paloma P   Create an image from this poem.
Categories: nonsense, allegory, fantasy, hero, humorous,
Form: Epic
Me Myself and I
Me myself and I
were talking to myselve's
when we asked us a question
and they were not themselves.

They themselves and them
now questioning themselves
said we were not like...

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Categories: nonsense, analogy, appreciation, character, destiny,
Form: Quatrain
The Hedgehog
A hedgehog sat upon a log
And ate a purple fig.
Soon, all that he had left of it
Was half a purple twig.

Next morning, he arose anew;
Declared...

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© Dean Wood  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: animal, nonsense,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Tree Troll Twister
A three-toed tree troll
tried to trap a leaping leprechaun
with a black claw bear paw trap.
But he stubbed toe three in the trap in the tree,
Snip...

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© Eric Cohen  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: humor, nonsense,
Form: Rhyme
Escaping Humanity
Feeling the desolation, of smothering air
Hemmed in by crowds; the obliqueness of fear
Throng of the city and no sight of the sun
Incessant noise and the...

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Categories: change, conflict, nonsense,
Form: Rhyme

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