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Best Leno Poems

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Premium Member Jay Leno
Jay Leno is known for telling jokes
And gets applause from many folks
 They always smile, they always grin
When he jokes about his massive chin...

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© Joseph May  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: leno, people,
Form: Clerihew



Premium Member Ruben's Sandwich
Hey diddle diddle
We poets will fiddle
With poems that jump over the moon.
But sometimes we blunder
He still claps like thunder
And soon we are smiling a tune.

While...

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Categories: leno, dedication, friendship, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
Matt Smith
Matt Smith, sir sonic screwdriver
Can ya lend me a fiver
Let's bet and see who wins
Him or Leno in the Battle of the Chins...

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Categories: leno, fun, funny, humorous,
Form: Clerihew
Premium Member One Step Forward, Two Back
Spelling a thing of the past,
Thank-you cards will disappear,
Cursive writing will be lost, 
No more postal mail.

Phone conversations are gone,
All temples of worship close,
Libraries lock...

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© Lee Ramage  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: leno, funny, imagination, loss, nostalgia,
Form: Dodoitsu
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: leno, dedication, funny, people, thank
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Ny Ny -- the Road In the Fork
New York, New York, the road in the fork  
   of the events, the places and folks who've buttered the pork

Like Rockefeller,...

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Categories: leno, film, music, new york,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member They Had the Wright Idea
Look how far we've come! What would have taken months of perilous voyage now just takes hours of mundane leisure. At your fingertips lies countless...

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Categories: leno, funny, introspection,
Form: Narrative
Mists Upon Narciuss Glass An Empty Verse a Gift For John Rhinem
 

'an empty verse'
and empty hands
~understand~
The glass in hand
can drown out ten- 
thousand and ten;
Hearts, 
~an emptiness~
looking for
?
a 
f
l
o
w
e
r
$ . . . . . .
(Oh,...

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© Cindy Lu  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: leno,
Form: Pastoral
Tortured Media
the game we play of how to escape a concentration camp
music movies and art
there seem to be people tortured in our media
michael jackson...Britney spears...Jay Leno...

nothing...

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Categories: leno, angst, war
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member A Lone Ranger Mask
I'm feeling rather silly today

Not that that's so unusual

But I'm feeling even more silly than usual

Read on and methinks

You'll understand exactly what I mean

Have thoughts...

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Categories: leno, humorous,
Form: Narrative
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: leno, grave, humor,
Form: Monoku
Premium Member Diddley Muffet ...You'Re Tagged, Ms Laurie Ginn!!
Hey diddle diddle
We poets that fiddle
With poems that jump over the moon.
But sometimes we blunder
She still claps like thunder
And soon we are smiling a tune.
Like...

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Categories: leno, friendship, funnyhumorous,
Form: Rhyme
Tv and Poetrysoup
I never watch the Oprah show
I don't like Dr. Phil
Jay Leno isn't funny
And Martha makes me ill

I used to watch Magnum, PI
I really liked Bonanza
Now...

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Categories: leno, funny, life, nostalgia,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Nighttime Talk
Johnny Carson, Jack Paar
Who was late-night TV talk's greatest star?
   Leno, Letterman, and Dick Cavett
   couldn't compare; didn't have it...

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Categories: leno, celebrity, how i feel,
Form: Clerihew
Here's Johnny!
(Dedicated to Johnny carson who died January 23, 2005.)

He was a great asset to NBC.
Everybody was sorry when he retired, including me.
I used to watch...

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Categories: leno, happiness, health, history,
Form: I do not know?

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