Funny Muse Poems

A sonnet and limerick once met
Romantically in tete-a-tete.
The sonnet had grace,
The limerick, no trace:
Make match of your muses, the net.
...

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I'm sick and tired of the so-called muses,
especially the one who always chooses
to make it clear that I don't work hard enough,
yet, when I ask...

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The macabre’s amusing at times,
makes for off-beat, hilarious rhymes.
To my wife they’re not funny;
she wants cute little bunnies
and not ones that are strangled by mimes.

She...

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“cat o' 9 tales”

Like a cat has 9 lives 
every witch in every Lilith 
lives to write another day

woe bedtide the poor oaf 
who gets...

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We all know that Christmas is commercialized
It is about business, profits and making money
So is Valentine's Day right now. Love is for sale
Hearts are on...

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(Terza Rima Sonnet)


Elated illusions laugh at my reason
Creations of my mind erase dark shadows
I care I search for the joy in each season

Beauties this awesome...

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Once a muse named Christina
who had the wisdom of Athena
	made a suggestion
	sage without question
and I followed into that arena

she recommended that I write
‘bout fairy tale...

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I’m dry; the muse has packed her bags,
unfriended me and left.
No rhymes have come to mind at all.
Of words I am bereft.

In need of verse,...

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Jelly Fat
by M. Griswold
08272020

"Jelly fat!" you say "Just what exactly is that?"
Well, it's a little more than that li'l old belly fat.
It's all of yur...

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What if I tell you a secret
The book picks the reader
And not the other way around
Like a friend waiting around the bend
Open pages beckoning without...

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There was a man I knew
who liked tobacco chew,

and to habit gave in
spit into the win'...

finish my poem
with your line or two:

There was a man,...

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Florence -flawless!
You said you are Florence
Are you really flawless?
Sorry there is no language I can speak with Florence
I guess you will bear with me, flawless

Are...

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Somnambulism
Is kind of an art
Of walking through
A memory lane

In the middle of night
Waking up in sleep
Eyes shut stepping with so confidence
Walking in a memory lane

Conscious...

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My RightBrain disconnected
oft neglected
cerebral gooey problem
is an up front noticing
then forgiving
part of LeftBrain rebalancing
then reconnecting
natural/spiritual
noncompetitive dual-
patriarchal-
capital-
bipartisan-
bipolar-isms

Over riding
striding nondualistic
nonviolent
co-passionate eco/theo/dia-logical
indigenously panentheistic
resonant experience

Detoxes statically 
statistically
three dimensional
dominantly predative
systematic
monotheistic...

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I have a frightening mental block,
Poetic reserves lost, no stock,
My mood is down and damp,
My hand has constant cramp,
Imagination not worth a dime,
Brain all mushy,...

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