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All Things -OscopyHenceforth my friends I do decree
That all procedures which end in -oscopy
Shall be banished from our vocabulary.
The mere mention of Gastroscopy, Endoscopy,
Colonoscopy and Otolaryngoscopy
Strike terror in the very heart of me!
So fellow wine lovers I...
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Categories:
humor,
Form: Rhyme
Senryu--It's Your Lucky Day
It's your lucky day.
You get to hear what I think~~
narcissist's mindset
January 22, 2021
entered in the Open Poetry 1 Contest
Sponsor: Charlotte Puddifoot...
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Categories:
humor, self,
Form: Senryu
Confused
Confused
By: Miracle Man
January 22, 2021
I can’t get my first Covid shot,
others can’t get their booster.
It gets harder each day,
“than putting socks on a rooster”
Each day the sun sets,
on another confused fool.
Trying to determine, if...
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Categories:
anxiety, health, humor, people,
Form: Lyric
Homework Destruction
I was in third grade when I heard a tale, ...
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Categories:
7th grade, homework, humor,
Form: Dramatic Verse
See the Difference
~ See the difference?! ~
For disrespecting orders
Trump might fire you -- or he just might not
For disrespecting others
Biden will fire you -- "guaranteed, on the spot"...
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Categories:
humor, leadership, word play,
Form: Epigram
OopsRioter trips on
Washington Monument on
way to Capitol...
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Categories:
humor, political,
Form: Senryu
Social Animals“On the internet, nobody knows you’re a dog.” – Peter Steiner
We need better watchdogs
protecting silly sheep,
falling prey to dark blogs,
the fox, weasel, and creep.
The trolls, so full of bull,
delight in being mean.
The phish will pull...
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Categories:
animal, computer, humor, social,
Form: Rhyme
School uniformsSchool uniforms
are the last, tired gasp of a
dying patriarchy.
You see a DARK bra
under my blouse? Oh, God! Who
knew girls wore those!
School uniforms, with
long sleeves, aren't made for
pandemic washing.
A guy told me that
girls in school uniforms...
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Categories:
11th grade, humor, school,
Form: Senryu
Adding to the Fuel
They buried the town drunk today.
As in life, he died inebriated –
eighty proof the coroner estimated.
And if to Hell he went straightway
(as all righteous teetotalers require),
I can’t imagine a fate more cruel
than adding eighty proof...
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Categories:
humor,
Form: Light Verse
My favorite President is yet to be
My favorite President is yet to be
He may well not go down in history
For he'll do what really needs to be done
Antagonizing almost everyone under the sun
First he'll fix Social Security;...
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Categories:
humor, america, anger, how i
Form: Couplet
Oh Word Where Are YouOh word where are you? I need you to complete
This poem that I wrote, I can not miss a beat
You word, yes you, who else did you think
I need you here now word to make...
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Categories:
fun, funny, humor, imagination,
Form: Rhyme
Earth's InAugural LoveSongIf you see and hear and feel,
smell and taste what's real
about yourself
within our ecosystemic
polyculturing
eco-political cells
Indigenous to Earth's changing lively habitat
of co-redemptive
bicamerally resilient
EgoHealth/EcoSafe Wealth
Together co-invested secular yang strong
yet also sacredly yintegral WholeEarth
bouncy Flow co-empathically cooperative
ego/eco-relation
Ships
no...
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Categories:
health, humor, light, peace,
Form: Political Verse
DepartureOff to Florida he stomps
On the lawn, one final chomp
He did what he said
He pardoned the dead
As he leaves, he drains the swamp
...
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Categories:
humor,
Form: Limerick
Bluebeard - InaugurationDid you know? Did you see? Did you hear?
Did you think? Did you hope? Did you sneer?
For today is the day
that Bluebeard goes away!
Bid adieu to his mountainous rear!
...
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Categories:
corruption, farewell, humor, humorous,
Form: Limerick
Roadside Chicory
Swaying fresh, tall and pliant
like lanky-legged teenage girls,
flashing eyes as blue as any
July summer’s sky, they wave
me down (I’d like to think)
to stop and pick them up.
I might slow down – that’s all –
for a...
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Categories:
humor,
Form: Light Verse
Specific Types of Humor Poems
Definition | What is Humor in Poetry?
Poems Related to Humor
playfulness, farce, joke, banter, whimsy, gag, wit, fun, wisecrack, joking, gaiety, jest, amusement, drollery, jocosity, levity, lightness, happiness, comicality, jesting, raillery, flippancy, witticism, tomfoolery, jocularity