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Best Costello Poems

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


Premium Member Abbott and Costello
Does anyone remember Abbott and Costello
Goofy as they were, my memories are mellow
Their antics were silly
A bit willy nilly
Bud and Lou were hilarious fellows...

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Categories: costello, nostalgia,
Form: Limerick



Premium Member Who First
Who first thought to eat cornbread with chili?
And who first thought to add ketchup to fries -
Who first thought to put that bell in Philly...

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© John Watt  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: costello, love, marriage,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Smoking Gun
“Smoking Gun”


Twisted Blistered dance with me
Come on Brother Snow get off your genuflection mojo knees
The World’s about to turn and merge
Vibrating dimensions souls that turn...

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Categories: costello, humanity, imagery, war,
Form: Free verse
Music
BAR
*MUSIC*
FUN
*MUSIC*
ALL
*MUSIC*
*R*
*O*
*C*
*K*
*A*
*N*
*D*
*R*
*O*
*L*
*L*
AC/DC
VAN HALEN
VAN MORRISON
ROLLING STONES
MICHAEL JACKSON
THE POLICE & BOWIE
PINK FLOYD & DYLAN
SIMON & GARFUNKLE
GUNS AND ROSES
EAGLES, CREAM
TALKING HEADS
BYRDS,COSTELLO
REO SPEEDWAGON
VANILLA ICE & B-52’S
THE WHO & SANTANA
THE CARS...

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Categories: costello, music, people,
Form: Shape
Premium Member Just a Few Clerihews
Warning, if you are under 60 you may not "get" some of these.

Mohammad Ali
taunting with poetry,
his opponents he'd zing
as he danced 'bout the ring.

Graham Kerr...

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Categories: costello, fun,
Form: Clerihew



Comic Relief
The Keystone Cops were funny,
Chaplain, Keaton, Lloyd, and Fields too.
Laurel and Hardy, and Will Rodgers,
Were just some of the names we knew.


Who can forget the...

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Categories: costello, dedication, funny, people, thank
Form: Rhyme
The Comics
The Keystone Cops were funny
Chaplin, Keaton, and Fields too.
Laurel & Hardy and Will Rogers
were some of the names we knew.

Who can forget the Stooges
or all...

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© Dan Cwiak  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: costello, dedication, funny, giggle, humor,
Form: Rhyme
Who's On First
Sebastian said Dim Whitty,
So as to make this funny
I asked the coach and said
"Honey...Who's on First?"

Coach said eYes!
And I got that part. Write.

Costello asked for...

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© Izzy Gumbo  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: costello, friendship, funnytoday,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member A Whiskers Tale: Watching the Detectives
"A Whiskers Tale: Watching the Detectives"



Her whiskers tickle
when the lights go out
hormonal huntress 
on the prowl
Moonlight chasing 
itsy bitsies 
up the wall
a silent investigator 
tap...

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Categories: costello, fantasy, muse, mystery,
Form: Free verse
Six of Three and a Couple Extra For Me
Richard clerihewed me yesterday
Why the nerve, I should have got him first I say
Then I laugh still wondering if clerihewed is a word
Realizing that many...

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Categories: costello, horror,
Form: Clerihew
Premium Member You
You laugh at all my jokes, ‘
even the ones that are not funny.
You listen to my troubles, 
making them your own. 
You know my words,
before...

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© Ann Foster  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: costello, beautiful, faith, friendship, inspirational,
Form: Free verse
The Real Monsters
double Chaney Lugosi and Karloff
those four are the most known monsters all time
and each monster they portrayed had spinoff
I grew up with those monsters on...

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Categories: costello, nostalgia, mother,
Form: Sonnet
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This is a cliché. That's my name for an old aside or an adage here we...

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Categories: costello, funny, nostalgia, parody, people,
Form: Prose Poetry
A Cherished Melody Brought Back To Life In An Acapella Form
Jesse Winchester was a not so known famous Singer and songwriter who wrote many hits.  His songs were recorded by Don Henley, Jimmy Buffet,...

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Categories: costello, appreciation, beautiful, encouraging, love,
Form: Narrative
A Decade of Depression
heard the sound!!! She is Gone!!! Gone 
Forever!!! 
2001...who would have thought that...that 
would be the last time i would ever see 
you!!! 
History Repeating...

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Categories: costello, depression
Form: ABC

Book: Shattered Sighs