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Mad Inventions You'd Never Dream Of part 1The Mother of Invention
Has given birth once more
And her new baby
Is as mad as before
Eddison or Tesla
Would spill their tea
I know because it happens to me
Baby suspenders?
I believe they are very rare these days
And I...
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Categories:
nonsense, baby, caregiving, giving, humor,
Form: Free verse
Minor distractionsWait beyond the earth is doomed.
Sun grew hungry, thus consumed.
Further wait until time tires.
Watch as all motion expires.
Unstitch all that has been sewn.
Witness that which can't be known.
Mould a shape that's yet unseen.
Remake all that...
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Categories:
nonsense,
Form: Rhyme
Trouble
I am in big trouble
My mind is in a muddle
My tears have formed a puddle
My head is in a bubble
My heart feels befuddled
My life has turned to rubble
I desperately need a cuddle
On the double ….!!
...
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Categories:
fun, nonsense, silly,
Form: Rhyme
Dinner MannersQuietly waiting
at the table
legs swinging…
Then, Aunty Jean
brings in
green soup.
Mother-glares at me,
sister-stares with me
at the cold green soup.
Is it medicine,
pond slime,
mushed frogs?
...at least twenty
spoonfuls long.
Silently I say, “Ugh!”
Quietly waiting
at the table…
Aunty Jean...
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Categories:
4th grade, food, nonsense,
Form: Free verse
Polly-wally-doodle-dooThere once was a chicken called ‘Polly’,
whose name sounded happy and jolly,
‘til one morning at two,
she crowed, “cock-a-doo,”
now our chook is a rooster called Wally.
...
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Categories:
animal, nonsense,
Form: Limerick
The Sound of SilenceThe sound of silence shrieked today.
I ran... to not be near it.
The thing I thought was really weird,
I didn't even hear it....
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Categories:
giggle, humor, nonsense,
Form: Rhyme
Five Little Words
Five little words, “I'll love you to infinity”
Okay, please don't write me letters
I realize it's five little words but who cares
Five words are probably better
To prove the depth of my deep devotion
I use all the...
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Categories:
nonsense,
Form: Rhyme
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Categories:
nonsense, fantasy, fun, funny, meaningful,
Form: Light Verse
The Jingly Jibyou 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 knows
being a Jib
can often be tough
expected to jingle
and jingle with...
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Categories:
nonsense, character, cute, fun, inspirational,
Form: Light Verse
Easter BunnyThe Easter Bunny's hopping mad
as someone's pinched his eggs,
he said when he finds out their name
he plans to smack their legs -
but now all's well, he's found the spot
(he'd hidden them himself)
so now he's...
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Categories:
nonsense,
Form: Rhyme
Hippo Carebulging
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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Categories:
nonsense, animal, fun, funny, humorous,
Form: Light Verse
Cakecake
caramel iced
donut filled
with custard
if I was a dog
cake
cream layered
sugar topped
jam sponge
cake
this is what I
would roll in
...
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Categories:
nonsense, dog, food, fun, funny,
Form: Light Verse
Wriggily Piggily
Oh! You wriggle
like a little piggle!
When you wiggle,
you make me giggle!
When you jiggle
you prompt a squiggle
and then I sniggle
at your marble miggle.
...
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Categories:
animal, nonsense, nursery rhyme,
Form: Monorhyme
No Oats-dodo
Categories:
nonsense, animal, cute, food, fun,
Form: Dodoitsu
Death of the Pen Quilled In ActionDeath of the Pen
Colonel quill is
On life support,
Through trembled
Voice he spoke ,
This feathered
Friend has served
Me well as it did
Most other folk .
So it's time for me
To shuffle off this
Mortal Coil, before
They...
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Categories:
humor, nonsense, patriotic, silly,
Form: Rhyme
Specific Types of Nonsense Poems
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