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Best Groucho Poems

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


Premium Member An Evening At the Home
Written: March 5, 2012
Updated: March 11, 2012


Listen to nurse's report including the news 
that Joe and Wilma like each other.

Check all rooms and find that...

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Categories: groucho, caregiving, life, people, light,
Form: List



Hey Poetrysoup Folks-
I picked "cinqku" because I don't know 
what form that is, and I'm too lazy to
look it up; but if you've ever read any
of my...

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Categories: groucho, age,
Form: Cinqku
Premium Member Monoku Monday - Feb 2021
"Book Worms"   Posted 1 Feb 2021

i'm reading a book about anti-gravity      I can't put it down

that bio of...

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© John Watt  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: groucho, humor,
Form: Monoku
Premium Member The Marx 'Brothers'
Karl Marx was a historian and scholar
  Groucho Marx whooped it up and hollered

    Both of them were starved for attention
...

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Categories: groucho, history, perspective,
Form: Clerihew
Premium Member Father's Day Tribute To My Grandfather
Father’s Day Tribute to My Grandfather
Written on June 2, 2012
Updated on June 11, 2014


Resembling Groucho Marx as you aged,
I often found you dozing in 
your...

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Categories: groucho, appreciation, father, grandfather, holiday,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Portrait of My Grandfather
Written by Gail DeBole on January 26, 2013

Whiskers and wisdom all in one. 
Generously and gently protecting us.
Every grandchild thought they were your favorite.
You in...

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Categories: groucho, dedication, grandfather, grandchild,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Penelope Squad
“The Penelope Squad”



A line of bluebirds 
tittering on a line
swaying on the winds
like comedian pageboys 
having a good time
poop in the peg bucket
words wooden and...

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Categories: groucho, giggle, humor, muse, mystery,
Form: Free verse
What a Revolting Development
What A Revolting Development
(Not by Groucho or Karl Marx)

Bernie with bent back grudges does carry
Decided to become another Revolutionary
Always knowing exactly what he meant
By this...

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© James Horn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: groucho, allegory, analogy, humorous,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Misanthrope
MISANTHROPE
For Mel, my wordsmith

I miss you my misanthropos
My groucho cynic hermit
But I’m glad you left my life
For now I love a man called Phil
And he...

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Categories: groucho, break up, dedication, fun,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Tapora
Like Hannibal we crossed the pass and crossed 
   the Alps (okay, the Brynderwyn Hills) 
and a bridge too far on north-west passage.
...

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Categories: groucho, nostalgia,
Form: Free verse
Dialect Tickle Matt Arial Hiz Im
Courtesy of Marx (albeit Zeppo, Harpo, Groucho, and Chico) 
whose acts brought generations of laughter to Vaudeville and 
then the Silver Screen adlibbed, linkedin, and...

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Categories: groucho, adventure, celebrity, class, day,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Heres Why My CV Needs Work
NAME: Phil Latio.

QUALIFICATIONS: LLB (Law) PhD (Medicine) & FSC (Federation Starfleet    
          ...

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Categories: groucho, humorous,
Form: List
Premium Member Monoku Monday - Apr 2021
"Some Grave Humor for Monday Mourning"   Posted 5 Apr 2021
take note: if you don't go to your friend's funerals    ...

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© John Watt  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: groucho, grave, humor,
Form: Monoku
Premium Member Classic Radio
Classic Radio

I crave classic radio!
Boston Blackie and The Shadow;
Captain Midnight; Fibber Maggie and Molly;
Ace detectives fighting crime;
Or comedians making up limericks in rhyme.

Keep the TV...

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Categories: groucho, america, family, fun, history,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Forget Making Me Happy
If you really want someone to love you
You should set aside making them happy
And just focus on why you love them.
We’re all flawed, I am...

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Categories: groucho, life, love,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Reflection on the Important Things