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 FindPicking 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 WinnerI 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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Categories:
nonsense, character, confidence, cool, freedom,
Form:
Rhyme
HogwashTwas 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
A Bedtime StoryOnce, 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
My Long Walk HomeT'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 PlobawobbyIn 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
Caveman SpeakingYou 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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Categories:
change, crazy, life, nonsense,
Form:
Rhyme
My WeaknessGOD
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
A Fine Flavor Between LinesIs 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
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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Categories:
nonsense, allegory, fantasy, hero, humorous,
Form:
Epic
Me Myself and IMe 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 HedgehogA 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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Categories:
animal, nonsense,
Form:
Rhyme
Tree Troll TwisterA 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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Categories:
humor, nonsense,
Form:
Rhyme
Escaping HumanityFeeling 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