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Best Humerous Poems

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Premium Member Just For Giggles
For those who don't read blogs or know of Jan's successful first book, I've written a limerick for her and included it in my comment...

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© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: humerous, friendship,
Form: Limerick



Bones
Bones


We have 206 bones in our skeletal system
Far too many to completely list ‘em
But here are a few for your edification
In case you missed ‘em...

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Categories: humerous, education, funny, humorous, light,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Baggage
“Baggage” 

Baggage collected 
scooped up in the arms
of strange angels

the unexpected 
expected 
some time 

will deliver
the poetic 
message

reasons
in humerous
rhyme

saints arrive
barefoot 
no glass slippers

Love
Joy 
Be

without
baggage
all in...

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Categories: humerous, love, mother daughter, muse,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member A Christmas Dinner
Our new minister was very young.
His bride was even younger.
My daddy said they looked to be
Just one short step from hunger.

My mama was the best...

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Categories: humerous, christmas, funny, christmas, christmas,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Cemetery
Strolling thro' the cemetery the other day I chanced to see,
Various grave stones that were quite intriguing to me.
Most were modest, a few monumental, some...

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Categories: humerous, funnygrave, , memorial,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Reflect, Stressed To Reflect
Can it be oh so serious, or humerous to be believed
When one life's turns it's oblique corner, when life can so deceive

It's when you've looked...

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Categories: humerous, lifefather, family, family, father,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Vignette-Henry Vaughan
Ingenious,humerous and proud
Born to write words to be read aloud;
'I saw eternity the other night..
like a great ring of pure & endless light'
Line ever remembered...

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Categories: humerous, on writing and words
Form: Narrative
Premium Member If the Shoe Fits
love is not Archie Bunker ~let his hatred stay in Hitler's bunker

when circumstances appear cruel in life you need not be cruel with them

a dodged...

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© I Am Anaya  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: humerous, analogy, humorous,
Form: Monoku
Premium Member Cautious Man
There once was a cautious weird man named Berm
He was mortally so afraid of germ 
No girl did he ever kiss
Saying I won’t get sick...

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Categories: humerous, funny, humorous,
Form: Limerick
Valentines Day Me Myself and Why
Valentine’s Day here you come again, 
February 14th lord have mercy on me amen,
You just have to rock up every year without fail, 
To remind...

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© Sarah Cope  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: humerous, boyfriend, i love you,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member A Refined Gent
A refined gent who serves lunch in Decatur
Is the posh bistro’s most genteel waiter
He serves fine escargot
and tres-bon merlot
Then mosies home to his deep-fried potater

2/3/22...

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Categories: humerous, humor,
Form: Limerick
Victim In Disguise
A pictures worth a thousand words. Is that why you wont verbalize your sins?
You cant hide it anymore, your as sinister as it gets.
Your a...

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Categories: humerous, life,
Form: ABC
Heron
My favorite bird is a Heron.
Soaring above the sky.
It flies like a kite,
Its neck like a serpant in motion.
The heron is a puppet on stilts.
Humerous...

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Categories: humerous, animals, children, visionary,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member Clerihew Tinguely
Swiss Jean Tinguely
art humerous did make free
Change the only constant in life,he said
an unpredictable art genre  he led...

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Categories: humerous, art, people,
Form: Clerihew
Premium Member Clerihew Tinguely
Swiss Jean Tinguely
art humerous did make free
Change the only constant in life,he said
an unpredictable art genre  he led...

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Categories: humerous, art, people,
Form: Clerihew

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