Puny Poems

Puny Puns of Word Play

My puns are not too punny.
They are puny -
so itty-bitty that they have no bite-y.
Like tiny turtles with no turtle necks
or like selfish shellfish
offering no worthy catch,
what good are they when they’re so poor?
My puns – they haven’t got
a piss to pot in!

I hate luch slack of imagination – and
my spoonerisms that aren’t worth
the dime

Categories: puny, words, writing,
Form: Free verse

Hawk and Puny Birds

The hawk flies over
         in paralysing calmness       
           puny birds flutter

Categories: puny, allegory, allusion, bird, extended
Form: Haiku

Counting His Puny Fortune

The coins clinked in front of him, then clanked
  the same coins that, as a child, had delighted him
Today merely clinked; today merely clanked
  the joy drained from counting his puny fortune...

Sensing an epiphany, he brushed the coins away
  sat there, chin resting on his elbows, elbows on the table
startled aware, suddenness

Categories: puny, anxiety, money, success, time,
Form: Free verse

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

Our Puny Brains

This can't be true, an error has been made
We have 60,000 miles of blood vessels end to end laid
Twice around the globe
That's quite a load
Someone's trying to bamboozle our puny brains

Categories: puny, devotion,
Form: Limerick

Puny Pin In a Sin Tin

Hang in the den
When lions roam in wait
To snatch your serenity from Eden
Where the Devil’s threat 

Roams to pounce
On the dignity you espouse
In more bounce per ounce
To rouse and arouse

The Devil’s desire
Jealousy and envy
Fire, mire and ire
In a bevy of grit gravy and scurvy

Sent with venom
Into the home
You strive so hard to form, reform, inform

Categories: puny, poems,
Form: Free verse

A Visitor

On the back of my paint pallet it lied

Small, black, and petrified,

Not even the size of a penny

And it didn’t seem to mind me any,

But when I gave it a poke

It was like it had awoke,

Because it flew away from me

Forever, and forever, to be free!

Categories: puny, 11th grade, freedom, fun,
Form: Rhyme

Our Puny Brains

This can't be true, an error has been made
We have 60,000 miles of blood vessels end to end laid
Twice around the globe
That's quite a load
Someone's trying to bamboozle our puny brains

Categories: puny, allusion,
Form: Limerick

Sour Ambitions of a Puny Mind

Contrived to be relevant
An extreme subversive 
of distorted concoctions
While having his stricken soul bare
And denigrated to a faceless crone
For his vicissitudes are an improbable casualty
Of a broken soul....

Categories: puny, character, identity, image, life,
Form: Cinqku

Mighty Me & Puny Me

In some sense,

I am mighty me,

and in many others,

I am puny me,

its bad that mighty me,

seems to dominate,

making that puny punier,

those who want me to be puny,

do not even notice it,

they do not stand,

but glare and sit,

and usually,

I take a hit,

I wished somebody would help,

me cure,

for now and more,

from this me mighty,

that has taken my

Categories: puny, life, philosophyme, me,
Form: Free verse