Humor Poems | Examples of Humor Poetry

An apple a day keeps the doctor away is an old slogan still believed to this day. But surely a blunder, at the least a mistake given a bite of apple the first woman ate and plunged a promised paradise to doom turning a garden into an emergency room. ...

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The home where Chella grew up, in the ghetto of Liberty City Florida, had beige carpets so old that pieces of the tuft and twirl would come out of the backing under-foot. The apartment window shades were white floral plastic rectangles cut from an old shower curtain. She shared a bedroom with two younger siblings and...

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The vanity of youth is at it’s height when its weight is carried light. It’s an accidental manifestation of another’s envious estimation. It’s lasting value, less than a mirage, disappears with bitterness into old age. To those who took the lie for truth when told in their vanity of youth must now in beauty’s absence live a lie impossible to forget or forgive. ...

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At a home for the elderly residents look like they might have been there for a century. There’s still hope for involvement if one still has good eyesight, looks, and functional “equipment.” Old age, desire, and strong hormones never sleep, at least not alone....

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Some men betray a basic skill when standing at a urinal. Aiming straight, apparently, doesn’t come easily or naturally – a basic lack of hand and eye coordination, apparently. But then some men don’t make a fuss of splattered shoes and trouser cuffs. ...

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Weathervanes were once practical indicators of matters meteorological – wind speed and direction, notably – found on house and barn roofs mostly. Nowadays of course they’ve rarely seen replaced by weathermen on TV screens. In winds of very high velocity they whirl and blurr to non-identity. And many a mortified pig whirling wildly like a whirligig has had it’s snout rammed...

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I’ve studied the matter, compared statistics, evaluated lives with unbiased prejudices, my research and facts painstakingly sourced – though four times married, four times divorced – call me daft, incompetent, or feckless my conclusions are sound not reckless, and the indisputable truth that emerges? Men and women make the worse marriages....

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Gym goer hits the gym—me, A dumbell slipped wild and free, He fell on his mouth, A tooth out, a shrill shout, Oops! He realised—the gym hit me! This limerick is fiction...

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~ To the Melody of "Home on the Range" ~ Home, Home of the Brains Where Scrabble is endlessly played Where seldom is heard ...

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Marcel Duchamp (French Dada artist, 1887 - 1968) Marcel Duchamp is most celebrated for a woman rushing down a stairwell naked, a painting critics mocked from the start as degenerate French modern art. Wives sighed relief she’s less than revealing so invited their husbands for a viewing. Duchamp painted her stripped of any garb apropos to the art of the time – avant garde...

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My master’s degree's a senior’s cruise - most of the other students are thirty and even forty-somethings. Good for them, for making the (75K) investment, it’s hard, and they all look very serious. I am too, of course. It’s busy and constant - but it’s business analysis - it's not hard, like chemistry (see retrosynthetic analysis)...

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Motion-activated caught on camera while cookies for the kids I was cooking a collared cat crept into the kitchen when I stepped outside and wasn't looking his potty break was well-timed as, sadly, I'd left the door unlocked onto the counter by the sink he climbed bared his butt and crapped in the crock tho' he gave new meaning to vanilla chocolate chip if I...

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Perhaps he's crackers to embrace glitz (to paraphrase Irving Berlin) 'Putin on the Ritz' tho' 'Sometimes something is better than nothing' went the writing on the wall yet 'Too much of nothing' (wrote the Zimmerman) is really no good at all and 'Everything comes to those who wait' an optimist put in prose but Cole Porter said it best when he wrote, 'Anything Goes' ...

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I have an old friend who enjoys a good pun, a play on words that's both humorous and fun. I've known her for many years. Her name is Joan, and it's rather fitting that her name rhymes with "groan". ...

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A real cup of coffee feels nice on the tongue it has a pleasant mouthfeel and it is warm Some think dung coffee lists high on the rung while others believe it contains fungi-form A teenage diary with a fountain pen nib quiet often it holds emotions real true Melodramatic entries sometimes its a fib...

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