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Best Looney Poems

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Premium Member Looney Tune
Max is mad at Molly
Samantha’s sore at Seth 
Freida’s freaking out at Frodo
While  Hobbits hold their breath

Jack jokes about poor Jill
She hits him with...

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Categories: looney, angst, conflict,
Form: Quatrain



Looney Tweets
Donald Trump just loves to tell "jokes"
Like, "COVID-19 is an hoax!"
When somebody dies
He tweets, "Its all lies!"
Trump ought to sign off, "That's All, Folks!"...

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Categories: looney, fantasy,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member Enjoy the Ride
Some days are diamonds, some are stone

To quote an old John Denver hit

Truer words were never spoken

The “stone days” (not stoned days!)

Are only sent to...

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Categories: looney, happy, life,
Form: Narrative
Red Roses and Wine
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This life has been but a carnival 

Ride within many ways its circus 

Amid silent reels; crimson hues...

Surreal it would seem if it were

Yet only...

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Categories: looney, business,
Form: Free verse
An Old Hyena Stalks the Pack
Lurking in the darkest shadows,
she looks for one of us to hound,
trying to catch a little glimpse
as she staggers along and limps

Spittle and drool keeps...

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Categories: looney, animal, culture,
Form: Rhyme



Lamp of Genie
I'm a girl Of Hundred Wishes,
Will you grant me all these wishes?
May all my dreams come true,
Aladdin.I'm glad,I have 
a share Of Your Lamp too.

I'm...

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Categories: looney, fantasygirl, sweet, girl, love,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member My Most Embarrassing Moment
I worked in an Insurance office and loved my job
But the manager was an idle fat slob
He’d put in expenses sheets for work he hadn’t...

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Categories: looney, humorous, me, work,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Thought of the Day
Welcome to Planet Earth, 
Our very own looney bin,
Where no human 
Is without sin.
Surely it is not only us out there,
Perhaps more advanced beings,
Or, perhaps...

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Categories: looney, god,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Let's Do It Election Insanity

Yes, Let's Do it. Election Insanity.
....................

Yes! Let us have all felons vote!
Better yet, let's muddy the "Swamp"
Have known killers run for Congress.
Perhaps, even be our...

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Categories: looney, america, patriotic, political,
Form: Rhyme
Something Odd Goin' On
What's up?
What's going on?
How come it's 3AM?
And bright as noon?
Have I finally made it
Into a Looney-Tune?

Who left me a hot breakfast,
Then disappeard?
How the hell did...

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© Tom Bell  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: looney, adventure, angst, confusion, fantasy,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member How Jay-Bird Got His Name
Young James Pruitt was an ordinary boy;
he grew up in an ordinary town.
But set a spell, and I’ll tell a tale
of how some not-so-ordinary things...

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© Jeff Kyser  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: looney, boy,
Form: Ballad
Untold Agony
While my happiness hawls in a dark cave of self-doubt, I smile.
Burying my brain cells in the grave of immense fear, I speak.
While my dreams...

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Categories: looney, depression,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Coyote and the Road Runner
Wile E. Coyote
would wear Acme “floatie”
wings so he could swoop from mountain bluffs,
but always crashed below to silent puffs.

The Road Runner,
like a tail gunner,
would down...

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© Eric Cohen  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: looney, nostalgia,
Form: Clerihew
Premium Member Inner Child Be Free
I enjoy silly and playful
Freeing my inner child
With a dash of naughty and cheeky
My inner child runs happily wild

I enjoy the escape of laughter
An escape...

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© Deb M   Create an image from this poem.
Categories: looney, child, freedom, fun, happy,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Eight Contests To Write For Part 2
THE ELEPHANT

The elephant is big and stout
And strong enough to knock you out
But when he really knows you well
The elephant will like your smell

The elephant...

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Categories: looney, nonsense,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Reflection on the Important Things