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A light verse is a typically short form of poem that attempts to be humorous, frivolous, or playful, but there is more to light verse. What is light verse in poetry (complete definition)?
Whoopee Jury DutyA jury duty summons
Yay! Whoopee!
Said no person every
I have received five in the last thirteen years.
Got my latest one yesterday.
Why me?
Why not? The jury duty goddess replies.
Timing is great.
First day I go back to work....
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Categories:
self,
Form: Light Verse
Cookie and a Dove Bar PleaseFor supper I only want sugar.
A cookie and a Dove Bar please.
Nothing healthy.
I open the freezer and am stunned.
I have eaten all the Dove Bars
And there is no ice cream or cookie.
The whole freezer is...
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Categories:
food,
Form: Light Verse
Preferences
Some prefer cherry
Others like grape
'Whatever, it's a tomato'
Said the hungry ape...
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Categories:
animal, food, humorous,
Form: Light Verse
CHRISTMAS IN JULY
I already bought my faux Christmas tree.
It will go on and turned as soon as we unbox it, get it set up!
I did this last year when lockdowns began.
I will not allow evil deceptors to...
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Categories:
confidence, how i feel,
Form: Light Verse
PROVIDENT MRS LITTLE ANT WORKING
spending less in the summer
for the winter,
Mrs little ant protects herself and
avoid hunger
...
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Categories:
allegory, allusion, food, metaphor,
Form: Light Verse
WITHERED VOYAGE-~ The ship has sailed
Casting seas
This the sentimental voyage
Those the waves engulfing me
Watered down withered tattered and torn
Swiss and swashed washed and decked these waves
So are compassionate so blows the winds
From...
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Categories:
adventure, character, sea, travel,
Form: Light Verse
POETRY IS MY FAVORITE SINGER
She, poetry has:
the melody of the night,
that's why it's seductive...
The sweet...
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Categories:
allegory, allusion, beauty, metaphor,
Form: Light Verse
If you feel the need to smirkIf you feel a need to smirk,
You can't go past a Merc,
One that is fully electric,
Or at least a hybrid, so you won't feel a jerk,
When cheap petrol is all talk.
Engineered with you in mind,...
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Categories:
addiction, age, appreciation, best
Form: Light Verse
POEM TO ENCHANT A LADY
My Beloved dearest,
my passion for thee,
blood...
...
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Categories:
allegory, allusion, appreciation, cute
Form: Light Verse
The Hobnobber
Certain politicians, apparently,
like to hobnob with others of no morality.
No need here to mention their names
they’re in the daily news, also their evil aims.
They even agree with insulting estimates
of men running against them as candidates.
As...
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Categories:
political,
Form: Light Verse
Shopping Acumen
Ladies, your sharp shopping acumen
is well known, but every now and then
it wouldn’t hurt to take a man’s advice
especially if the item is triple in price!
So, when selecting bathroom tissue buy
the plainest and cheapest. Here’s...
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Categories:
humor,
Form: Light Verse
I NOTICE WHEN I AM UGLY
I notice when I'm ugly...
smiles close
the words are silent,
no one answers me...
only the flies risk
to approach me.. !...
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Categories:
allegory, allusion, fun, hilarious,
Form: Light Verse
Professor Emeritus
Our aging professor emeritus
has an affectation that annoys us:
he stresses words that end with “èd” –
a mannerism, he claims, he learnèd
(if the story is to be believèd)
in his days when he matriculatèd
(or, as he puts...
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Categories:
word play,
Form: Light Verse
POET REAL LIFE
My so-called solitude,
is shared with the stars...
Flowered with light,
dawn for centuries...
Apparently I live alone...
So I live content...I don't have
real wife, real children...
Since I espoused poetry,
my offspring are:
my songs,
my verses
and my poems... !...
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Categories:
allegory, allusion, life, metaphor,
Form: Light Verse
TobinTobin was my dingo girl the sweetest dog I've owned,
a high energy frisbee girl devoted in every bone.
We'd walk together, jog together, seldom were alone.
She was such a people pleaser that with one halting hand,
would...
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Categories:
animal, dog,
Form: Light Verse
Specific Types of Light Verse Poems
Read wonderful light verse poetry on the following sub-topics:
christmas, friends, funny, kids, love, music, nature, school, sports, whimsical
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