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Best Tongue In Cheek Poems

Below are the all-time best Tongue In Cheek poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of tongue in cheek poems written by PoetrySoup members


Premium Member A Tree Is Like a Blank Book
A Tree is Like a Blank Book

A tree is like a blank book
that nature writes her seasons on 
In Winter black branches woebegone
With snow and...

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Categories: tongue in cheek, change, nature, simile,
Form: Enclosed Rhyme



The Hamburger
For thirty years I’ve been a truckie who has driven far and wide,
Carting goods through day and night all across the countryside…
But hours spent upon...

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Categories: tongue in cheek, food, humor,
Form: Rhyme
Walk Away
Cheap wine dimmed in the candle light thinking my life's bleak like her dreams keep cramping my sleep and I've had it with uncleaned teeth...

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Categories: tongue in cheek, break up, courage, feelings,
Form: Rhyme
I Con You Not
Your style is unique
Each word very sleek

The poems never meek
Yet no bad critique

Humorous mystique
You never misspeak

Such lovely technique
All your rhyme so chic

Always tongue in cheek
Poetic...

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Categories: tongue in cheek, friend,
Form: Monorhyme
Premium Member Go Ask Alice
Ah, Divine influence, it has come to many, so they say,
as to their nameless or named God’s they do pray.
The light came to Carroll, he...

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Categories: tongue in cheek, allegory, devotion, fantasy, introspectionmen,
Form: Quatrain



Premium Member Na In Contest - New Limerick Collaboration
My penchant for writing was showing
The comments I received were ‘glowing’
But at the end of the day
I get another N/A
My success in contests is slowing!

WRITTEN...

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Categories: tongue in cheek, humorous, poetry,
Form: Limerick
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I Was Heartily Welcomed… As I Sat At Your Table
By:  Carol, Sara, Carolyn, Dane Anne,  Moses, and Abel
    ...

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Categories: tongue in cheek, allegory, dedication, food, friendship,
Form: Free verse
A Smart Car's Brilliant Campaign
A quantum bit of tongue in cheek
The physics of an ad to pique 

A trusted name to seal the deals
Stephen Hawking hawking wheels




18.02.05

Kim Rodrigues'
Poetry In...

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Categories: tongue in cheek, car, hero, science,
Form: Light Verse
The Reedybrook Ashes
Each year in August the teams descend, cricket foe morphing quickly to friend,
Bonds are forged on a pitch unique, camped on the banks of Reedybrook...

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Categories: tongue in cheek, friendship, fun,
Form: Ballad
Premium Member Believability and Truthfulness
Believability  and Truthfulness
By Franklin Price
10/6/2018

Believability and Truthfulness 
Are often not the same
Politicians, very often,
Think they're only just a name

What happened to those good old...

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Categories: tongue in cheek, anger, hope, political, truth,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Rumi-Nating Over Poetry
Some praise the work of Rumi
They declare him the poetry king
But his deep philosophical lines really are not my thing

William Shakespeare the Bard of Avon
I...

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Categories: tongue in cheek, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Ivory Tower-Y
DISCLAIMER: This is a tongue-in-cheek, sardonic critique 
of my own poetry from the perspective of a fictitious non poetry 
lover. This is not aimed at...

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© John Watt  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: tongue in cheek, humorous, poetry, poets, writing,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member I'Ve Solved One Climate Change Issue
About climate change and its effects there has been a lot of chatter.

One concern is that the sea-level is rising and I think I know...

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Categories: tongue in cheek, humorous, sea,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Gene, Gene, the Singing Machine
(in memoriam, Eugene Lawler, d. January 29, 2012, aged 83 years)

--- Note:  "The singing machine" is a not so tongue-in-cheek reference to Gene and...

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Categories: tongue in cheek, angst, anniversary, death, friendship,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Good Clean Slam
A Good Clean Slam

Let us investigate the process!
HOW…..HOW…..shall we make
a MUD PIE……without getting dirty???

We shall polish up the words,
buff them to an acceptable finish,
weave them...

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Categories: tongue in cheek, slam,
Form: Free verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things