Funny Note Poems

N1,000.00 for a mad beggar;
The rare spectacle would make you stagger:
Nation’s Top Bank Note on palms of pure dirt!
I had to yield to Strongest Suspicion
And...

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For most of her life she wanted a tattoo 
But was leery her mother might yell, gnaw and chew
The unicorn landed!
Mom won’t understand it
And Mo...

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My kryptonite is music 
So much so that a teal tune
sticks in my head all day
until I hear another to replace

I find music in everything
the...

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On A Personal Note

by Edmund Siejka

They didn’t fit
Like bookends
Or what people might describe
As a nice looking couple.
Seeing them together made a jarring sound
Like chalk clawing...

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The young man was handed a note
Check here, if you're registered to vote
Voting wasn't on his mind
Felt he waisted his time
Stuffed his ballad in a...

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Ladies please take note 
this is a massage for
the little man in the boat.
To whom so much of myself 
I willingly devote. 
I hope you...

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Who are these lug nuts?
Who are these featherweights?
Who are these slum bums?
Who are these cretins?
Who are these dimwits?
Who are these bird brains?
Who are these crumb...

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It’s funny how things that used to be funny,
Aren’t allowed to be funny no more,
What was once a joke that heralded laughter,
Now seems to set...

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Brian’s Poet of Note – ‘Herman Hesse’ Week 2

This week I thought I would discuss translating poetry from another language. I just finished retranslating from...

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With all the commercials in the world
Which ones do you remember the most?
Some celebrity with gown unfurled
Perhaps it’s a well-known TV host?

Perhaps a little cute...

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NOTE TO GRANDPA 
        by Joan Donnelly Ellis published in Today's Smiles Anthology

 Grandpa I heard you and...

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Stop writing haikus
They don’t even make sense now
Something something cake...

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Dear John, since I am just thirteen
And you're thirteen years old too,
It is not inappropriate
That I send this note to you.

I tried not to laugh...

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The Note
Back in the dusty toe
Of the library cove
Was where we would go
Not with any books in tow
Just the need to let love grow
With you...

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a LOVE  NOTE  /// from BILLY the KiDSTER

PD  why do I  love hassling you
morning time, I  rise up to shine
P.D....

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