Toothsome Subject
“Why is it called a toothbrush?”
(he asked rhetorically)
as I use it to brush more than one
it makes no sense to me
surely 'teethbrush' would be correct
for dental care and gums
so from now on that's what I'll use
to remove food residue between my teeth
while I still have some
...
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Categories:
fun, humor, nonsense, silly,
Form: Rhyme
Centre-Stage
Consider the man in the street if you will
what's he doing there standing stock-still
maybe like the chicken he's crossing the road
and half-way over with nothing better to do
only slowed to admire the view
perhaps he's pushing his luck
for remaining stationary no doubt about it
he'll be hit by a van car lorry or truck
let's hope it's not...
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Categories:
humor, nonsense, silly, word
Form: Rhyme
Some Like It Hot
With coriander cumin turmeric
basmati rice saffron and spice
onions chilli peppers
and all things nice
with chapati and chutney
a samosa or two
naan for starters
rogan josh vindaloo
not eye-watering
but tasty is best
tandoori tikka masala
korma's a meal with zest
chicken lamb chickpeas or lentils
a dinner for two you do not hurry
allow what you've got to simmer in the pot
if you want a...
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Categories:
food, fun, humor, nonsense,
Form: Rhyme
Mooning
I knew a young girl
just a pretty face
who lost her mind
in outer space
with a celestial body
decidedly racy
out of this world
but totally spacey
not quite the brightest light
it's true (but what a view) and yet
when gazing at the moon
turned loony... a space cadet
and 'twas the lunar orb
(waxing, waning, new or blue)
of that there's no doubt
whose gravitational pull
simply...
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Categories:
girl, humor, moon, nonsense,
Form: Rhyme
Alice Through the Logical WormholeGood evening, sir, my name is Alice.
A man of peculiar predilections,
Lewis Carroll, made me, not from malice.
Rather, more so, from his affections.
A pen name for a man, pedagogic,
Charles Dodgson was the given name
of this Oxford professor of sound logic.
To me, he's Lewis Carroll, just the same.
If my creator made another choice,
and...
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Categories:
adventure, nonsense,
Form: Rhyme
I Miss The Crab Apple Orchard, And Pretending To Be A KnightLife has an odd habit
of making you miss
old street curbs and
stop signs.
The street I miss
the most, though,
has to be the cross
street between the
crab apple orchard
and my friend
Jacksons
house.
Something about that
place felt infinite. And
something about sometimes
friends feels greater than
sometimes.
Would I go...
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Categories:
nonsense, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
The Dustbin of History: A Requiem for Western MediaOnce, they claimed to hold the torch,
To light the world with truth and reason.
But the West’s media empire—
Was born not in truth,
But in treason.
From BBC’s royal scripts,
To CNN’s manicured myths,
From Fox’s fury-laced fables,
To NBC’s polished distortions—
They were trained, not to inform,
But to perform
For the empire's applause.
Every lens tilted,
Every headline coded,
Every silence calculated—
To shape the world
In...
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Categories:
film, funeral, nonsense, western,
Form: Free verse
HIV: The Capitalist VirusThey said you came from chimpanzees—
That deep in some African jungle
You leapt across species,
A silent hunter cloaked in blood.
But we have lived with chimpanzees
For tens of thousands of years.
We shared forests,
We shared meat,
We shared mythologies.
Why now?
They claim you're a natural disease—
But if that were true,
Why does nature not offer a cure?
Polio fell. Smallpox vanished.
Yet you—since...
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Categories:
nonsense, allusion, death, drug, health,
Form: Free verse
Tricycle SojouornI tied a string to my tricycle handle.
In the basket, I placed a shining candle.
From the other end, I tied a balloon.
By hook and crook, I knew that one day soon,
I'd be in the court of the Crimson King.
But what would he offer - not a thing.
He sailed a...
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Categories:
childhood, journey, nonsense,
Form: Rhyme
A Fishy TaleI spoke to the sea,
a calm breath
though a gale raged
inside of me – both my
sails shredded, I begged
for mercy:
“Thou art the greatest world current,
what brag would be a wretched notch
like me!? Devourer of coasts!
Reshaper of vast continents! Bane
of man’s mightiest fleets! Countless
formidable have foolishly challenged thee, and now
lie silent in your crushing...
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Categories:
nonsense, cute, fantasy, fishing, grandfather,
Form: Prose Poetry
Julie Andrews Oversight?Music, both sacred and profane,
an elephant in cellophane,
a boa constrictor bowing a cello,
aluminum and lemon Jello -
these are things Ms. Andrews missed
as on her favorite things, she dished....
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Categories:
animal, food, music, nonsense,
Form: Rhyme
a story of nonsense and freedomImplications
of no-separation~
a game changer
for no one~
no dimensions
no sequences
"no" is the
the totality
of which there is
no understanding~
a story of
nonsense and
freedom...
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Categories:
nonsense, words,
Form: Free verse
Ride or Fried
Compare my motorbike and air-fryer
Because at times they both can be quite cold.
So, when they are their buttons I will push
To turn them on, my touch must not withhold.
I'll warm them up until their engines roar,
And they will then be ready to excite.
Both giving me exactly what I want
A long hard ride, then a fat...
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Categories:
humor, nonsense,
Form: Rhyme
Fruitcake
You may say I'm crazy
but as it takes one to know one
do you have what I've got
if I am are you too
and am I nuts to think I'm not
the shrink he's not telling
despite all my yelling
he only asks how it makes me feel
it's quite a strain on the brain
is he really and truly for real
then...
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Categories:
crazy, humorous, nonsense, psychological,
Form: Rhyme
Hotty to NaughtyHotty to notty—
That’s a bad thing, bro.
Hotty to naughty—
Now that’s a good way to go.
Hotty to notty,
Hotty to naughty.
Hotty to notty—
Their looks go bad.
Hotty to naughty—
That won’t make you sad.
Hotty to notty,
Hotty to naughty.
Hotty to notty—
You leave that face.
Hotty to naughty—
You can't leave that place.
Hotty to notty,
Hotty to naughty.
Hotty to notty—
Things get tough.
Hotty to naughty—
Her...
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Categories:
funny love, humorous, nonsense,
Form: Rhyme
Specific Types of Nonsense Poems
Definition | What is Nonsense in Poetry?
Poems Related to Nonsense
madness, silliness, babble, joke, bunk, folly, stupidity, foolishness, drivel, rubbish, baloney, gibberish, trash, absurdity, bananas, balderdash, scrawl, jest, rot, rashness, irrationality, thoughtlessness, poppycock, palaver, bombast