Long Parody Poems
Long Parody Poems. Below are the most popular long Parody by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Parody poems by poem length and keyword.
Limericks
Limericks
by Michael R. Burch
Clyde Lied!
by Michael R. Burch
There once was a mockingbird, Clyde,
who bragged of his prowess, but lied.
To his new wife he sighed,
"When again, gentle bride?"
"Nevermore!" bright-eyed Raven replied.
The Platypus
by Michael R. Burch
The platypus,...
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Categories:
giggle, light, nonsense, parody, silly, smile, word
Form:
Limerick
Brave New World
(based on Aldous Huxley's book "Brave New World")
Human hatchery
Clink clink clink clink...
Test tubes prattling past
along the chrome plated production line.
Glistening under fake fluorescence
humming in harmony
with the magnetic motors
of conveyors, centrifuges and camshafts.
Biological blobs of gamete...
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Categories:
parody, confusion, depression, heartbreak, humanity, introspection, political, science
Form:
Free verse
Selected Lyrics From the Imaginary Invalid
After graduating from UF, in the early '80s I wrote the book, lyrics and score for a musical adaptation of Moliere's farce Le Malade Imaginaire ("The Imaginary Invalid") and have decided to post five...
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Categories:
funny, humorous, parody, satire,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
A Haunting Wooded Tale
,It's like some long lost fairy tale
That's handed down through time
But couldn't be, as you will see
For this strange tale is mine.
I chose to take a country road
I do from time to time
To...
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Categories:
parody, adventure, fantasy,
Form:
Rhyme
The Night Before Christmas By Edgar Allan Poe
On the night before Christmas, alone in my house,
Sorrow gnawed at my soul, like a ravenous mouse.
Entombed in my blankets, I struggled to sleep,
Ready to snap if I counted more sheep.
I rose at the...
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Categories:
parody, christmas,
Form:
Narrative
A Former Great Nations Squandered Wealth I
Swept up into piles; everywhere
Abouts; in collected heaps all
Around.
It is almost as if the drab
Streets were strewn...
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Categories:
parody, philosophy, senses,
Form:
Rhyme
The Lay of the Best Man - Part 5
The Lay of The Best Man - Part Five
Have you heard about the bespectacled man who wore his glasses to bed?
Because when he awoke mornings his dreams were all blurry in his head.
And what about...
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Categories:
parody, humanity, men,
Form:
Lay
The Lost Grinch Carols - Christmas Parody
This selection of Christmas carols, in themselves, has little value as songs or poems. Their importance lies chiefly as a historical footnote, as some scholars believe they may have been works written by history’s...
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Categories:
parody, christmas, silly,
Form:
Rhyme
Categories:
french, humor, humorous, imagination, light, money, parody,
Form:
Shape
Redneck Santa
T'were the night after Christmas, 'n' the house was all dark.
Not much money for 'lectric in the ol' trailer park.
Ma waitin' tables at the club on the base,
jist me and my sisters alone in the...
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Categories:
christmas, parody,
Form:
Rhyme
MASSIVE EGG RECALL
good evening—breaking news:
the fda has issued
...
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Categories:
business, corruption, culture, fear, parody, political, satire,
Form:
Concrete
2071 - Big Brother Watches From On High
2017 - year zero
They loaned to the poor, who cannot repay.
They stole from the old, who cannot recover.
They sold our future, for better or worse
and made our children pay.
They schooled arithmetic to be feared.
They tutored...
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Categories:
corruption, humanity, pain, parody, political, truth,
Form:
Free verse
Categories:
parody, song,
Form:
Ballad
Recounting Wounding Costs
I know what it costs
to parent a tyrant
24/7
52 weeks/year
and yet avoid judging,
feeling guilty,
self-blaming shame
for all I am not sufficient,
yet.
I remember learning curious distinctions
between genuine remorse
given, when LeftBrain verbally requested,
yet without RightBrain capacity
to feel even the...
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Categories:
caregiving, discrimination, emotions, feelings, humor, parody, voice,
Form:
Political Verse
Stories of Grace and Pathology
I hope it would not be a parody of Michael Morrell’s political scientific position
to suggest all relationships are political
and all political relationships fall somewhere on a spectrum
between perfect co-empathic trust,
nutritionally and regeneratively favored by creolizing...
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Categories:
parody, blessing, gospel, health, history, political, religion, trust,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Words and Poetry
About Bill Posters and Bill Greenwell
Words not to use in poems
In 1993, I (Bill Greenwell) went on a three-day workshop with the poet Peter Sansom, who co-edits The North, and runs the Smith/Doorstop imprint. He’s...
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Categories:
parody, education, poetry,
Form:
I do not know?
The Incumbent
THE INCUMBENT
by
JOHN M. ARRIBAS
I am sick and tired of hearing the same old line
My elected representative says every things fine
He just does not represent the people I know
He’s been there forever its time for him...
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Categories:
corruption, culture, introspection, irony, parody, political, power,
Form:
Rhyme
The Pied Piperess
Orchestrated they succumb onto her board scene ~ As success thrills the ordained Queen of mean—poet
Once upon a time, there was a Queen with a magic flute in her throat
Beknownst to all the villagers...
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Categories:
evil, parody,
Form:
Prose
Three-Fifth Stooges Quartet
Moe
Larry
Curly
Shep
Joe
This Three-Fifth Stooges moron quartet
are brain-slow slugs you don’t wanna IQ know
Just sitting on a milk crate,
waiting outside of the MGM studio gate
Moe, Larry and Curly passed my way
They were yukking it up,
talking clown...
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Categories:
fun, humor, parody, political, satire,
Form:
Light Verse
Upon a dark and stormy night
Upon a dark and stormy night...
as jagged bolts of lightning
tore thru the the midnight clear
and figuratively ripped the sky to shreds
(analogous to jumping Jack flash),
and ear splitting thunder crackled
testing the threshold of tolerance
zombies of Sugar...
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Categories:
absence, america, animal, character, earth, january, parody,
Form:
Free verse
Letter To Mama
*LETTER TO MAMA*
Iye omo to r'ewa
Iya ni iya mi owon
I know you wonder if your prayers don't ascend to heavens
You keep asking if the promises won't come true
You're beginning to doubt the...
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Categories:
parody, home, journey, missing you, mother, mother son,
Form:
Free verse
Hand-Picked Berries and Sun-Dried Tomatoes 3
“The songs are casual and careless in a satisfying way, like the used condom your latest lover left lying on your bedroom floor, a souvenir you’re not yet ready to dispose of.” Candy Cotton, Modern...
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Categories:
parody, mythology,
Form:
Prose
Ivory
It's a fallacy that writers have to shut themselves up in their ivory towers to write. I have all these interruptions, three of which I gave birth to. If I was thrown for a loop...
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Categories:
parody, appreciation, blessing, extended metaphor,
Form:
Free verse
Can You P an AI Robot Off - Bot meets feisty lady
Can You P an AI Robot Off – Bot meets feisty lady
The great AI debate video – A humorous parody on AI and AI Robots versus humans.
Watch to the end for the final...
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Categories:
dance, humorous, parody,
Form:
Prose Poetry
You'Re a Monster, Donny Dump
Sung to, You’re a Mean One, Mr. Grinch, (extended version).
KP
You’re a monster, Donny Dump.
Some biiig-time twiiisted clooown.
To no end, I could deride you,
are no depths you didn’t fall to,
no ineptness could elude you,
the bottom-feeders they...
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Categories:
america, celebrity, fun, humor, parody, satire,
Form:
Rhyme