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Chortle Poems - Poems about Chortle

Premium MemberA Good Sense of Humor Blunts the Sharp Blades of Reality

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Harsh is life’s reality.
Each trial we endure is a sword of steel
that pierces the jagged edges
of our imperfect souls.

We cannot escape
the occasional slashes from life’s rapier
that fall ...
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Categories: chortle, humor, life,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberA Good Sense of Humour Blunts the Sharp Blades of Reality

...I try to crack a joke to tame a tense situation,
As a way of blowing up the slow building steam.
With a joke, I see all resentments flitting away,
And watch, how a happy mood begins to stream....
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Categories: chortle, giggle, humor,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member10 Seconds Of Fame

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   Momma said, "Don't chortle!
                         It's rude.

   But I won the game!
   My small fame.
   Can't I just enjoy the win?

   Chuckle over the loss.
   No one is hurt.
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Categories: chortle, 3rd grade, 4th grade,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberMister Misanthrope

...Mister Misanthrope had given up hope
On the entire human race 
He'd bark and he'd bleat as he walked down the street 
With a grimace on his face

Each day he would howl with a snarl and scowl
M...
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Categories: chortle, humorous,
Form: Rhyme

Benjamin the Bear

...In the whimsical woods where the wind whirls wild, 
Lived Benjamin the Bear, a creature quite mild. 
With a belly that bounced as he waddled through trees, 
He was a bundle of joy, blowing bubbles...
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Categories: chortle, animal, nature,
Form: Alliteration



Premium MemberChurch Choir

...The ladies and gentlemen of the local church choir,                                                                  all dressed in their Sunday morning attire,                                       ...
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Categories: chortle, celebration, christian, community,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberThe Tale of The House in Sounds

...The  CRUNCHING  of tyres on the gravelly driveway
The CLANG of the garden gate sharply closing
The CLICK of the key in the lock
The old door CREAKING open on its hinges
The SNAP of the light swit...
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Categories: chortle, happy, home,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberYou Saw Anew

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      Sundial numerals illuminate 
      Knowing noon narrow shadow arrow strikes
      Flicks ‘round corners of maze elaborate 
      Heraldic daffodil, dormant out psychs 

      
      Lio...
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Categories: chortle, animal, anxiety, daffodils, environment,
Form: Sonnet

Premium MemberChorus Of Chortle

...Biting through strings on girlish giggles 
harrowing the echo of church bells;
Overpowering with sweetness
rolling in good times that tune foretells,

Magick you always want to join in,
tragic ...
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Categories: chortle, emotions, giggle, girl, women,
Form: Lento

Premium MemberAlong Dry Path

...Am I fitful,
fluctuating, fluid? 
thin compass waver
as I jubilantly weave
lilac tree vignettes 
that weep or chortle,
rainbow figment curtain
rashly wished upon
in grain smudge zephyr
garne...
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Categories: chortle, august, birth, celebration, character,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberClued Into oneself

...An evanescent bouquet of skewed briars,
is how a  tinsel laden tawdry essence wickedly unfolds ,
scuppered signpost to a fetid  human  compost,
faint light pendant on soul crushed quantum migrant,...
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Categories: chortle, care, character, deep, emotions,
Form: Free verse

who felt that rrrip

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        just close your eyne y'all
                      and 
               imagine mine
                    chortle
                      well
                     uhhh
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Categories: chortle, allegory, extended metaphor,
Form: Cowboy Poetry

Premium Memberjourney to enlightenment

...The anti-Darwinian portal
Pass through and your soul's immortal
This fills church coffers
Without refund offers
And that's why priests seem to chortle...
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Categories: chortle, dream, earth, god, myth,
Form: Limerick

Premium MemberFlamingo Blooms

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Written: January 23, 2024
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Their melodious humming drifts
through the fragrant night air
carrying a sense of tranquility
I...
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Categories: chortle, analogy, appreciation, beauty, creation,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberMystical Epiphany

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Written: January 12, 2024
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Their buzzing goes unabated
the cool air scent of lavender
in this unfathomable cosmos
where dreams ar...
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Categories: chortle, analogy, appreciation, nature,
Form: Free verse

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