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Best Nonsensical Poems

Below are the all-time best Nonsensical poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of nonsensical poems written by PoetrySoup members


Premium Member A Nonsensical Tale
Exceptionally average
on every known scale
My life story’s such
a nonsensical tale

Striving for apathy
with passionate zeal
all of my flaws
I boldly conceal

I loudly proclaim
my feelings to none
and when...

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Categories: nonsensical, funny, humorous, nonsense, word
Form: Rhyme



Sand Dollar Dreams
It's quiet here - quiet in a way that catches me off guard. The tranquility is almost tangible, something I can touch and hold and...

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Categories: nonsensical, memory, nature,
Form: Haibun
Premium Member The Death of a Poet
I read my obituary
Accolades run afoul to lighten the souls of the living
Trite clichés, forgotten kin, melodic tributes
Boring and meaningless

Upon a granite stone etched for...

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© Jim Hirtle  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: nonsensical, death, poets,
Form: Free verse
Christmas Night Reflections
Fluttering beneath the newly cut
Festive green hollies,
Decked out with heaped drapes
Of freshly fallen snow,
A bold little red breasted Robin,
Busily searching,
Cheerfully hops to and fro.

Darting between...

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Categories: nonsensical, christmas,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Slang Footles for Male Names: Part 3
Always Prepared

Ready 
Freddy

The Untamed

Feral
Ferril

What’s in Frankie’s Pockets?

Frankie’s
hankies

Patriotic Guy

Yankee
Frankie

Of the highest Quality

Fraser’s
razors

Small Eater

Grazer
Frazer

The Warlock

Pagan
Fagin

The Brilliant One

Star Glow
Fargo

Something’s About to Happen to Him

Herald
Gerald

Poet

The bard
Gerard

The Mimic

Parrot
Garret

Who Needs Pudding...

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Categories: nonsensical, boy,
Form: Footle



Premium Member Our World Changing, Not For the Better - Potd
It's not hard to see or tell this world of ours 
Isn't the same as it used to be. Granted, it has 
Never been perfect,...

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Categories: nonsensical, anger, emotions, life, political,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Slamming the Super-Duper-Soupers
you want to know a secret
when I write a poem and it's perfect
i dont share it
i bury it 
deep inside of me 
where no one...

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© Nathan D.  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: nonsensical, humor, slam, perspective,
Form: Rubaiyat
The Giant of Lisbellaw
Stood I there, that last day,
On an iron bridge...
An aqueduct by design,
Where, looking dreamily out over
The Ernes Lower Lough,
My compressed shadow 
Momentarily paused -
To contently...

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Categories: nonsensical, philosophy,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Pompous Pied Piper
Like the pompous pied piper leading the way,
chirping his tune of a dawning new day,
frustrations were championed, oh how we followed,
the ego stuffed shirt of...

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Categories: nonsensical, america, change, corruption, death,
Form: Rhyme
Mirror of Memories
Mirror of Memories

On my brown bedroom wall hangs an old misty mirror,
with a ghostly reflection staring vacantly back at me.
It’s taunting me and I don’t...

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Categories: nonsensical, confusion, depression, how i
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Dysfunctional Inner Peace
The scorpions creeping out from words slowly, acutely framing
where judgement claims the higher position unconditionally 
lone vulture hanging over its unsuspecting prey ready to pounce...

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Categories: nonsensical, conflict, deep, prejudice, pride,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Welcome To Soup Creek Town
If you come to Soup Creek town
With any ulterior motives
Best go first to the local chapel
And light a few candle votives,
We, the citizens, have values
Not...

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Categories: nonsensical, anti bullying, fun, humor,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member The Crazy Cat Lady
Twice-a-day, though sun or rain, in storm or wind or snow

              ...

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Categories: nonsensical, animal, appreciation, love, wisdom,
Form: Couplet
Conspicuous Lice
Some conspicuous lice met once or twice  
With white follicle mites who came out at night
And an upside down tick who did magic tricks
That...

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Categories: nonsensical, insect, nonsense,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member Rant With a Slant
I challenge you to a rhetorical
to prove me wrong else be unconventional 
‘bout a problem that’s gone systematical
everyone’s so radical and cynical   
once...

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Categories: nonsensical, culture, freedom, grief, love
Form: Monorhyme

Book: Shattered Sighs