Best Lighthearted Poems

This contest style’s description is one I’ve never heard
I’m unfamiliar with that particular word 
An internet search comes up empty 
However, others seem to have...

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If I were a dragon, burning old bridges
with the fire that I breathe,
I would perform tricks, from way up high,
and eternally seethe,
lend a daring claw...

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I'm ashamed to say I was a grumpy pessimist, as some events soured me,
Just as some cherries stay sour, although lingering long on the cherry...

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You Are Not Invited

--Latching onto my soul without an invitation--
Elements around my shore expose more than air
--Playing with fire is not a game you will...

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My turds float like choc’late marshamallows
Just lurking about in the shallows
I guess that my butt
Is truly kaput
So doctor suggests bitter aloes

I questioned such treatment regime
Doc...

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I hesitated for over a month – should I join Poetry Soup …
Would they like my poems and accept me in their group?

It is not...

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Sometimes thirty years
feels like a long time
When you’re an old soul
and the hours and minutes
have taken their toll

But there are songs to write
and words to...

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Open your eyes

If I were there I would caress your heart
with the thread of a silken cocoon
Stitched now as one on the eve of the...

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A silky-spun weave captures my attention
with its soft circular radiance
reflecting rainbows;
its fixed yet floating form plays in sways of dappled sun,
appearing, then disappearing
as it is...

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Rhyming Doubles On My Muse's Stern Command

He who Lives, to green woods explore
and bathe in glowing moonlit streams
shall find his Love, begging for more
than pale...

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 Summertime heats the birds and bonny boughs.
Wings lighthearted and flapping with the breeze.
Likewise, the scent of honeysuckles arouse
A ring - the wedding bells of...

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Let me tell you a story…
A story about life, where Solitude gracefully glides into the room, wearing a loose fitting gown, draping her curvaceous form....

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My fashionista muse has many styles from which to choose,
and how she feels determines the colors she will use.

If she brims with silliness, it’s orange...

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The giraffe
Haughty and fond of herbivorous feasts,
Tends to look down on his wee fellow beasts.

The elephant
Thin outer ears are gargantuan-sized,
Tickling the ivories isn't advised.

The pelican
Genus...

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I do not know if this is odd
but for me, most times
I do not feel the need 
to write a poem that rhymes
I generally find...

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