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Best Kidding Poems

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Premium Member You Must Be Kidding
My kid gets smarter every day
She queries in a thoughtful way:
"Are two M.D.'s a paradox?
Are kosher fish in spring 'May lox'?"
"Go ask your Mom". She...

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© John Watt  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: kidding, kid,
Form: Rhyme



More Foolish Footles For Super Soupy Soupers -
Andrea D?...No brainer:
Dandy
Andie

Or in her younger, wilder days she may have been:
Randy
Andie?
(Just kidding! Just kid...Ouch!)

I have no choice but to categorize several poems by my...

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Categories: kidding, funny, me,
Form: Footle
We Worked Long Enough
I laugh out loud
every time I hear a politician say,
that the best way to enrich a black person's life,
is to give them a job
Give them...

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Categories: kidding, slavery, society, truth, work,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Premium Member The Dress
It was the last year of high school and there was a lack of beaux,
But then I got an invite. Whew, that was close!
So now...

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Categories: kidding, 12th grade, dance, high
Form: Couplet
Premium Member The Cuddling Cricket
It’s not enough to have a Dragon plus his penguins and pigeons, too?
Darn it! I had a limit, until a cute Cuddling Cricket found my...

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Categories: kidding, baby, fantasy, funny, growing
Form: Light Verse



Premium Member Breast Cancer Awareness
This is a short piece for Breast Cancer Awareness Month. I lost a close friend very talented, very young to breast cancer. I also lost...

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Categories: kidding, cancer,
Form: Narrative
Sacrifice
It was during WWII
Japan ruled 
Koreans obeyed

Japan ordered
All Koreans
Walk up to Shinto Temple
And bow down to the picture
Of their emperor

Are you kidding?
My father scoffed
My God...

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Categories: kidding, brother, sad, war,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Witch At Inverness
Please take this time to steer your thoughts
To a wretched land of lochs and glens.
Where a village was tasked and the people fraught
At the woe...

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Categories: kidding, adventure, children, magic,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Social Distancing During a Pandemic Or Get Behind the Orange Line
No I'm not kidding , believe what I say.
Step behind the orange line and behind it you stay.
Yes, I'll scan your items from six feet...

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Categories: kidding, stress, work,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Division Of Neighbor
‘Hey stomach,’ says anus,
‘Would you cut the crap.’
“It’s not me,’ stomach says;
‘I won’t take the wrap.

It’s what they’re eating,
So blame teeth and mouth.
I’m innocent,’ says...

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Categories: kidding, analogy, betrayal, body,
Form: Rhyme
Yo Parents So Strict
My curfew according to my mom is, “before the sun goes down!”
She never gives me the time to meet with friends and hang around
My dad...

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© Anna Lee  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: kidding, childhood, humor, metaphor, mom,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Pizza America's Favorite
Thick or thin, it is the Friday night order in special,
Supreme or meat lovers delight, whatever toppings
You like it, does not matter for it’s 
The...

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© Cherl Dunn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: kidding, america, art, devotion, food,
Form: Free verse
Male Mantis Murder
Subtitled: WELL! You didn't have to bite my HEAD off...

Gladly would I die
for your love, my dear. No! Wait!
Just kidding! Just kid......

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Categories: kidding, funny, insect, nature,
Form: Senryu
Premium Member Famous Last Line
I hate it that you don't like what I write
You'd think at least one time I'd get it right
I get first place with others, never...

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Categories: kidding, community, conflict, funny,
Form: Iambic Pentameter
Premium Member The Things Our Parents Said
The Things Our Parents Said
By Robert (Bob) Moore

The things that we remember, from days of long ago
we believed, it was all true, our parents told...

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Categories: kidding, children, family, humor, humorous,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Shattered Sighs