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Best Quipped Poems

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


Of Road Rage and the Poetrysoup Profanity Policy
As Joe was biking down the side of the road
He ran across a chap with a dearth of driving skills.  
Or more accurately, the...

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Categories: quipped, anger, conflict, culture, funny,
Form: Light Verse



Premium Member In the Wild, Far From My Home
Ain't it wild the things that have passed?
The things we thought would change,
the things we thought weren't gonna last?

(remember picnics on the park grass?
that was...

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Categories: quipped, absence, change, endurance, imagination,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Premium Member Retirement Due To Health Issues
The dear old pastor had occupied the same pulpit for years and years;
He preached fire, damnation and The Hereafter scorching his congregants ears!
He had baptized...

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Categories: quipped, humorous, religious,
Form: Rhyme
Dude From Bude
There once was a fellow from Bude
Who loved to play golf in the nude,
Someone quipped "that thing, 
Has a hell of swing,
He sure is one...

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© Gary Smith  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: quipped, humorous, rude,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member Easter Lilies
"The meek and the humble will be elevated to places where the haughty can never ascend even with a ladder. Stay humble in victory and...

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Categories: quipped, beautiful, christian, easter, mystery,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member College 'll Wait
Dad an’ I were tryin’ hard to land a pan o’ Redeye just outside o’ Huntsville 
off a dock on Mouzon Lake,
When I got all...

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Categories: quipped, family,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member The Dimly Lit House
(* = i)


There’s a dimly lit house where a chicken sh*t mouse
Hides in a hole from the man and his spouse
He’s easy to please
Just leave...

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Categories: quipped, cat, humorous,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member Keep It In the Family
My partner’s parents came to stay
They’re messing with my head
They only turned up yesterday
So we gave up our bed
But last night I’d been drinking
Until late...

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Categories: quipped, family, romance,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member My Suitcase
Every morning, when I walk under my cherry trees,
There is soothing breeze which awakens my senses,
The flash back of life events roll before my eyes,
I...

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© Jay Narain  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: quipped, life,
Form: Verse
Three
Thence they come, these thoughts again
As I brood, on mind thus dimmed
Fraught with doubt, crossed by light
Naught but rout, mine sublime such night

Shall I muse...

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Categories: quipped, introspection, on writing and
Form: Rhyme
My Most Embarrassing Moment
It was many years ago now, before my wisdom teeth
had forced their way through my big mouth, they were still underneath.
I had an awesome job...

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Categories: quipped, funny,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member The Princess and the Pimp
A preening promiscuous princess posed as "Penelope Prude."
With her poodle and parasol; well-perfumed, on Pine Street she stood.
A pompous pilfering pimp with a pink-painted poodle...

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Categories: quipped, funny,
Form: Alliteration
Premium Member Eddie Claimed To Be a Cowboy - With Video Link
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-KFwPNkS6U 


Eddie was a braggart,
At least we thought as much.
His lower lip was loaded, 
A three finger dip of snuff…
My mind said, “I think not.”

And...

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Categories: quipped, cowboy-western,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Leprechaun In My Bottle
One dark dreary night while happily drinkin’ up a big big storm,
I beheld a tiny green man in my bottle, oh!—not the norm.

He’s my tiny...

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Categories: quipped, cheer up, drink, emotions,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member The Astonishing Disappearing Act
Proctologists need to write when 
A prescription's called for big ben 
But a doctor equipped
With thermometer quipped
An as_hole's walked off with my pen...

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Categories: quipped, confusion, funny, health, humor,
Form: Limerick

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