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Best Comedic Poems

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


Premium Member Laugh through 2024
“Every year is a chess game. New Year is a new chess game! You make the right moves, you win the game!”
Mehmet Murat ildan


Questions of...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: comedic, fun, new year,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member The Jester
THE JESTER

Jester jingles
with madcap medusa-bells,
dressed in melodic-motley uniform.
A sea of foamy frills
frame the famed renaissance storyteller,
a creature feature
of phantasm for frightened children.
His ghost-white face
with comedic...

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Categories: comedic, history,
Form: Alliteration
Premium Member Rocket Man - Now a Collaboration
Ron Dump says he’ll destroy North Korea
With finger poised, we have so much to fear
He’s a power mad glutton
With his hand on the button
Will the...

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Categories: comedic, conflict, humorous, political, world,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member The Full Moon Makes Faces Tonight
The Full Moon Makes Faces Tonight 

Gazing out my picture window on this darkest of night,
The full moon shone sky-high with the brightest of light.

I...

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Categories: comedic, allegory, beautiful, fantasy, imagery,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Licia, a Mysterious Mind
Licia, A Mysterious Mind

A mysterious mind
You often do find
Is cluttered with all kinds of clowns
In your ear they speak 
Quite often with cheek
And tell of...

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Categories: comedic, humorous, little sister,
Form: Rhyme



We Danced
I penned a couplet for you today.
Rather, a quill manipulated
my hand and scrawled mendacity.
The misanthrope's who read the ode
applauded with flippers on.

Such insight. Such depth.

Mussolini...

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© John Heck  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: comedic, introspectionme, me,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Sacred Lakes
“Sacred Lakes”



There is magic 
in your shaman bones
stories shaken like strange mojo 
busy under cover of autumn leaves 
turning burnished topaz gold 
idling unrushed roll...

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Categories: comedic, journey, love, magic,
Form: Romanticism
Premium Member She's the Queen of Poop Poems-For Jan
She’s known as the Queen of Poop poems, funny and bold
And reading her humorous poems never ever gets old
Her poems brighten my days and make...

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Categories: comedic, dedication, for her, fun,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Second City, Chicago, My Bio
On Wells Street in Chicago, is a sweet comedic treat.
Second City Theater for laughs and where many found their beginnings on plain stage, their life's...

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Categories: comedic, dedication, humor,
Form: Rhyme
A Time To Smell the Flowers
Yesterday, I went to an exhibit which showcased the native products of the place where I grew up.  It was held at the entire...

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© Kp Nunez  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: comedic, friendship, life,
Form: Haibun
Inferno Yawn
rise and shine deflect common sense while white dilapidated guts spawn oppossing beats an treats that are not so daring as uncommon feats and relativity...

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© Jim Cross  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: comedic, beauty, desire, dream, hope,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member My Son
I have a son
with more than his share of heart
and mindbody intelligence,
to comprehend vastness of Earth’s evolving history
and future demise,
to comprehend full emptiness of universes...

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Categories: comedic, destiny, humanity, humor, jobs,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member Gene Kelly
Athletic grace and agility,
were his trademark style.
Energetic sensitivity,
That crooked little boy smile.

He commanded the stage while dancing,
setting the tempo.
Dramatic ballet choreography,
or a comedic roll.

He danced...

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Categories: comedic, dance,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Chuckles, Giggles, and Guffaws
Chuckles, giggles and guffaws
That's the only way to fly
Find silliness in all everyday things
Tears of joy will fill your eyes

In fact if you're not careful
You'll...

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Categories: comedic, fun,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Little Big Man
He walks proud
Like a man
Who has much bigger balls
Dangeling there
In his underwear

He has attitude to spare
Even with
A partial head of hair
People look his way
They can't...

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Categories: comedic, appreciation,
Form: I do not know?

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