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Black Humour Poems - Poems about Black Humour

Premium Member Mountain erring is human - Kafkaesque personification of a mountain
...Mountainous - there's a joke in there somewhere Funny how I just appeared one day Or at least that's how it feels I've observed others rise and fall Whilst I stay put There's more to me, weight,......

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Categories: black humour, surreal,
Form: Personification
Legionnaire
...Just a quick notification that A new resident was on his way Giving us enough time to get A room ready for him to stay Not our usual type of client A Veteran French Legionnaire It was beyond ......

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Categories: black humour, death of a friend,
Form: Rhyme



Fit For Work
...Nine years he served his country Then nursed in Mental Health None of his professions being Much good for his wealth. Physical ill health Brought work to an end Very little hope that His cond......

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Categories: black humour, anger, angst, depression, hope,
Form: Rhyme
Veterans Breakfast Meet
...There‘ll be black humour today, Gentle ribbing, banter and jokes, Stripping away of egos, repartee Among our mixed group of folks. Bruising conversations maybe, But in a non malicious way. No ......

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Categories: black humour, courage, emotions, friend, hope,
Form: Rhyme
Of Morbid Humour
...Laughed at a cartoon dog killing cartoon rabbit. Smothering it. Called it "morbid humour". Dark. Deep. A hole without visible bottom that you smile at, knowing if you just set one foot f......

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Categories: black humour, community, death, humanity, money,
Form: Prose Poetry



The Funny Bloke
...I had a mate who had an unusual sense of humour They call it black humour for what it is We were putting a suicide in the morgue It was a fatal gunshot wound to the head As I looked through to hi......

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Categories: black humour, how i feel,
Form: Free verse
Armageddon
...ARMAGEDDON ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ A disaster called armageddon It is on its way no kid on In an asteroid so big A hole they must dig Or we'll all end up like fried bacon ~~~~......

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Categories: black humour, humor, humorous,
Form: Limerick
Black Humour
...The Laughing Matter We laughed and laughed it was raining heavy we didn`t see we were off road and flew, still laughing- over a precipice and landed in an opening in the forest where rabbit con......

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Categories: black humour, addiction, evil, farewell, film,
Form: Blank verse
David Osborne's Funeral: Scrubbing Up Well
...We have said farewell to David How we wish he had been there To see how much we loved the s*d And how we did our hair He would have loved the eulogy In which he got a mention For David always l......

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Categories: black humour, appreciation, eulogy, family, friendship,
Form: Epitaph
Black Humour
...Black Humour The day tragedy struck, a misfortune that also held in It´s grasp a tendency to giggle, a black sort of humour when laughter threatens to replace sorrow. My little cabin is buil......

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Categories: black humour, animal, dog, smile,
Form: Kyrielle
No Alone
...emotions searching wayout hibernation compels the stage next for deep rooted revelations black holes gave company when walls around were black laterally came tinge to smile...... escape velocity ......

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Categories: black humour, allegory,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
No Alone
...emotions searching wayout hibernation compels the stage next for deep rooted revelations black holes gave company when walls around were black laterally came tinge to smile...... escape velocity ......

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Categories: black humour, allegory,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
No Alone
...emotions searching wayout hibernation compels the stage next for deep rooted revelations black holes gave company when walls around were black laterally came tinge to smile...... escape velocity ......

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Categories: black humour, allegory,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
No Alone
...emotions searching wayout hibernation compels the stage next for deep rooted revelations black holes gave company when walls around were black laterally came tinge to smile...... escape velocity ......

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Categories: black humour, allegory,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
No Alone
...emotions searching wayout hibernation compels the stage next for deep rooted revelations black holes gave company when walls around were black laterally came tinge to smile...... escape velocity ......

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Categories: black humour, allegory,
Form: Dramatic Monologue

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