Humorous Light Poems

How was it back in the day? The second-grader asked me.
I knew by now he thought I was at least a hundred and three.
We rode...

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               your spot were 
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Tír na nÓg - A Tragic Epic Saga

ye hear, of a leprechaun and a unicorn who met in a field’s corner
a he and she, she...

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a gigglephant and giraffalaugh
in a junglement’s delight
did swing on a vine
most of the time
but today decided to fight
set to did they
but laugh did they
and tried...

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I knew a mime who was ever silent
One of the many who were licensed
        Hit his toe doing...

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Mexicans make many things,
but the best is tacos,
bull-fighting is kinda cool,
not as cool as tacos.

Cheese and chips and refried beans,
folks put them in tacos,
awesome spices...

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you know he’s a Jib
the way you can tell
he jingles and jingles
like a jingly bell

but sometimes their jingle
mysteriously goes
then Jibs cry all day
and why, nobody...

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bulging
burgeoning
bulbous grin

widening
a widened chair
to sit him in

liking 
lotions
rubbed on chin

and greying
gruelling
sunburn skin



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cake 
caramel iced
donut filled 
with custard
    if I was a dog
cake
cream layered 
sugar topped
jam sponge
cake
    this is what I...

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sat a toad by a pond
pondering
of some words 
words of wonder
wondering
then he croaked them
gave his voice
voicing 
and looking up 
saw an audience
rejoicing

and the animals
with a...

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Limericks IX



Scratch-n-Sniff
by Michael R. Burch

The world’s first antinatalist limerick?

Life comes with a terrible catch:
It’s like starting a fire with a match.
Though the flames may delight
In...

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I have invented a nonce nonsense form: the "dabble dactyl." A dabble dactyl starts out like a double dactyl, but forgets the rules and changes...

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                   jane
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Table top dancer was as graceful as every hippo I knew
She did a waltz, a ballet, and an old familiar soft shoe
The people at the...

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