Funny Light Verse Poems

Tír na nÓg - A Tragic Epic Saga

ye hear, of a leprechaun and a unicorn who met in a field’s corner
a he and she, she...

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a gigglephant and giraffalaugh
in a junglement’s delight
did swing on a vine
most of the time
but today decided to fight
set to did they
but laugh did they
and tried...

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Windows open wide in the middle of the night,
inhaling the brisk air, soaking up some moon light.
It's cracks and craters were calling to me,
so I...

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noop
boo troon
frooing soon

noop
too woon
drooing hoon

noop
shoo shoo
oon


...

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you know he’s a Jib
the way you can tell
he jingles and jingles
like a jingly bell

but sometimes their jingle
mysteriously goes
then Jibs cry all day
and why, nobody...

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bulging
burgeoning
bulbous grin

widening
a widened chair
to sit him in

liking 
lotions
rubbed on chin

and greying
gruelling
sunburn skin



...

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cake 
caramel iced
donut filled 
with custard
    if I was a dog
cake
cream layered 
sugar topped
jam sponge
cake
    this is what I...

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sat a toad by a pond
pondering
of some words 
words of wonder
wondering
then he croaked them
gave his voice
voicing 
and looking up 
saw an audience
rejoicing

and the animals
with a...

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Some of my poems are truly inane.
Screeching, preaching, a run away train..
Impulsive poetry is to blame.
It's just my style. I'll sign my name.
It's never racist.
It...

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There's a tv commercial with a metaphor,
that some of us may have heard before,
"shingles doesn't care".
If one rolls the virus dice rsv and covid
aren't very...

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The rhyme "Hey diddle diddle"
For me poses a riddle:
What possible need
Has a cat for a fiddle?
A cow might jump over the moon,
So I'm told,
If a...

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Jiggety jig, my ex. is a pig.
It's much worse since I've been gone..
One could clean every day.
He won't put things away and he even
throws trash...

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Author's note: This piece, dear reader, is my idea of a possible 3rd grade writing assignment around this time of year.

Dear Santa,
What I'd really like...

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I don’t have a basement
there’s no hills here to run to
no caves for miles around

haven’t stockpiled tins of beans
or tomatoes
or peach slices

panic buying hasn’t been...

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the universe exists
to give humans a backstory
- no humans, no universe
it’s all heads
in the shape of our heads

history could be made up
and I know people...

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