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Best Quirky Poems

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


Premium Member A Valentine's Limerick Poetry Contest--Cupid's Quirky Arrow
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Cupid's arrow, sharp and sly,
Hit us both, oh my, oh my!
Love's a comedy, we've found,
In laughter, our hearts are bound,
Together, under love's blue sky.
...

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Categories: quirky, cute love, valentines day,
Form: Limerick



Star of the Show
Narrate you own life's story
and tell you own life's tale
Don't leave it up for grabs
or even up for sale!

Write down your own life's story
before the...

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Categories: quirky, identity, life, people, perspective,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Whistling Hamlet
A whistling wheezing hamlet, whispering and emanating, tunes euphonic, 
In a remote isolated valley, far-flung from the abode of the temporal, 
Warbling quietly to whistle...

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Categories: quirky, community, earth, education, encouraging,
Form: Alliteration
Premium Member The Mystery of the Na
I was once really new to our Poetry Soup,
and I knew I should try to join in with the group;
post my poems on-site to be...

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Categories: quirky, humor, poems,
Form: Verse
Revive the Breakage
High upon the highest heights
I see the most tremulous sight
A small girl, fair and tranquil
Smiling strangely, sitting still
Beneath a sobbing willow tree
She recites a verse...

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Categories: quirky, allegory, death, devotion, forgiveness,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Fall Family Feast Footles
An oddly-shaped Thanksgiving bird:
   quirky 
   turkey

What we call Grandma's mashed potatoes:
   dreamy 
   creamy

How she adds...

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© John Watt  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: quirky, family, thanksgiving day,
Form: Footle
Premium Member Incendiary
The moth, inexorably drawn
To an incendiary fate,
Is tunneled to the wormhole's end
And placed in stasis, there to wait.

A single strand of silk is all
That ties...

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© Jeff Kyser  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: quirky, fantasy,
Form: Quatrain
Pin Fishing
I remember fondly the summer when I was nine
Catching minnows in the creek was my favorite pastime
Except I called then pin fish, I had quirky...

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Categories: quirky, childhood, fishing, happy,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The First Day We Met
I bless the day she came my way. Her quirky hat a strange display 
meant not to impress me.

But her shadowed smile softened and I...

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Categories: quirky, kiss, love, romantic, wife,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member The Fiesta of Cherry Blossom
Let’s fly to the celestial fiesta of the cherry blossom,
In the North Eastern Region of Shillong, named, “The Scotland of the East,
The abode of the...

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Categories: quirky, celebration, nature, paradise, visionary,
Form: Free verse
Incredible India: My Motherland
Ah, to this land of the monsoons
or should it have been the sunsoons? 
Yet for frozen land tourists, a tropical hot boon.

Where bullock carts, stray...

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Categories: quirky, patriotic, places,
Form: Verse
Weekend Father
Unfortunate circumstances made me a weekend father
Two parents separated by a marred history,
now had to care for a child ...
an innocent victim who received emotional...

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Categories: quirky, art, divorce, father daughter,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Tourette
"Can you sit still, for a change?
and stop the annoying clicking?"
I'm trying hard! It doesn't work!
I click, and keep on ticcing

"Sit in the back, don't...

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Categories: quirky, body, boy, i am,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Mr Bungo
Zany and free spirited, Mr. Bungo is a one man show
Yodeling any song you like, doing the "old soft shoe"
Xenial to one and all, he...

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Categories: quirky, children, fun, imagination,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member What Brings Me Great Joy
That first morning moment we awaken, and our eyes meet
When the sun shines upon you, your face sparkles so sweet

The way you play and say...

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© I Am Anaya  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: quirky, 12th grade, joy, love,
Form: Couplet

Book: Reflection on the Important Things