Short Dark Humor Poems

Short Dark Humor Poems. Below are examples of the most popular short poems about Dark Humor by PoetrySoup poets. Search short poems about Dark Humor by length and keyword.


Premium Member My Hat

My hat... 
it covers up my head.
It is better that,
then to be dead.
There is a bald patch, 
yet I am fine, 
with my hat.
© Ann Foster  Create an image from this poem.


Premium Member Inside

Shallow, I am not, Silence the very thought!
I appreciate truly, A woman’s inner beauty
That’s why I dissect them in my basement
Form: Verse

Premium Member Do

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My Contst Pom

A masochist plans his own burial
You'd think our man was malarial
  But a fallacy it is
  'Tis pain that is his
Ado for such an actuarial
Form: Limerick

Premium Member Bottled Up

childhood destiny
therapeutic tears shed for
the spilling of milk



John G. Lawless

contest - In a Bottle
sponsor - A Poet Destroyer
Form: Senryu


Premium Member another year--

another year down the drain (d r) (a i) (n ddrraaiinn dddrrraaaiiinnn draindraindraindrain anotheryeardownthedrain
Form: Concrete

Premium Member son of a b!tch

and so it all came to pass ~ the world stood still when I sh!t on your grass

so barked the neighbours dog ~ but I’d already seen him dragging his ass
Form: Monoku

Sunday Funday

I cried and I cried and I cried My little pet chicken had died Mom offers a treat Delicious to eat Here's some nuggets boneless and fried
© Tim Smith  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Limerick

Premium Member Mans Laughter

why is slaughtering a man ~ viewed a lesser crime than murdering one 

  and why man decides to put an s in front of laughter ~ just kills me


By
David Kavanagh
Form: Monoku

Premium Member Every Mistake

I will never give up. I still have time.
I'll boldly go forth, whatever it may take.
The mountain of disaster, I will climb, 
until I've made every kind of mistake.
Form: Epigram

Premium Member 'Et tu, Brute'

“Et tu, Brute?”

“Who me? "No! Never! Nay!"
’Tis yon Cassius’ gig.
I didn't wanna any part of it, you dig?
Now, please ~
kindly turn your head ~  
the other way."
© Rio Jansen  Create an image from this poem.

Premium Member measure for measure

I sense the scorching truth doth lap my toenails ~ or am I being tricked

satan asked his chiropodist ~ who hath nicked him bad but truly licked

By 
David Kavanagh
Form: Monoku

Premium Member Painted Black

                ~ Eclipse ~
 
   Light goes away, then comes back

      in-between, 'paint it black'

                                    ~ Mick Jagger
Form: Couplet

Premium Member A Gentle Enquiry

I certainly don't mean to intrude.
I hadn't expected to catch you nude,
and I don't mean to make a fuss,
but I thought it was only us,
or, perhaps, I misconstrued - 
if I might ask, who is this dude?
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member An Attorney's Letter

Unless you pay in bills, unmarked,
your aspirations have been parked.
Our lawyers have reviewed your case,
and determined they don't like your face.
Our agreement, then, we would rescind,
to leave you twisting in the wind.
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member A Widder Bit

If I weren’t such a kidder,
you might have to consider
just where I went and hid her
now that I am a widder.

But now you can’t assume; 
you’ll call for an exhume
and then you’ll storm and fume.
The widder grin doth bloom.
© Jeff Kyser  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Dark Humor

Should mortification
be justification
for your fortification
  
  Then you need 
  a long vacation  


'Judgment, thou art fled to brutish beasts...'    
    Marc Antony's 'Funeral Oration' in Shakespeare's "Julius Caesar"
Form: Monorhyme

Premium Member An Acquired Taste

You are what you eat; it is true,
                    So cannibals are people too!

                                    5/06/22 

                   Killing with an Epigram contest
                        Sponsor: Margarita Lillico
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member What a Gyp

	O, good. Just what I’ve always wanted to elect
             a Senatorial candidate with a Nazi tattoo on his chest

         What do you mean he’s dropping out of the race
            ~ depriving me of voting for one of America’s best

Premium Member Summer Laziness

In Florida donuts all ‘round —
the whirlpool of kids as “bigs” frowned.
         The force of the push
         did wimple their tush
and throw them all off and they drowned.


6/10/2020
Contest: SUMMER LAZINESS
Sponsor: Mohan chutani
Form: Limerick

Premium Member Limerick Contest

A CLOSE SHAVE

Shel married a wife with armloads of fur.
He was very unkind, he did beat her.

         Smothers - never quits.
         Makes her shave her pits.

Smirking, she sharpens her blade on the cur.

4/26/2017
Jan’s Limerick contest - back by popular demand
Form: Limerick

Premium Member Just Below the Belt

dear john

         a few words she wrote 
  we’re through i found a real man 
           i’m getting married 


                  dear jane 

             he too spelt it plain 
      i have ravaged your mother 
             her scar was it you


By
David Kavanagh.
Form: Haiku

Premium Member Crocodile Tears

He made her life a living hell.
Her heart immune to the death knell
She breaks down and cries
Tears spring from her eyes
Her acting days now serve her well.

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Contest: Open Poetry 
Sponsor: Charlotte Puddifoot
11th July, 2015
Placed 7th
Form: Limerick

Premium Member Time of Departure 12:29

I vaguely heard it
Almost a whisper
“TOD – twelve twenty nine”

“but wait” I shouted
“I’m still here”
 “DON’T…..pull that sheet up!”

“Stop whispering”
“I can still hear you”.

“You guys are gonna be in so much trouble
When I tell Mom”.

“I’m never playin’ Doctor with you guys again.


John G Lawless
7/12/2023

Premium Member The Shining Snow Melts

THE SHINING SNOW MELTS

A shining maze, around each bend ‘redrum’.
Mine eyes can’t see the door of beating drum.
Axe doth break our hearts,
and “Here’s Johnny” smarts.
We close horror’s hotel, scream - and run from.

6/1/2017
Limerick Contest

*Stephen King’s The Shining

? A mirror image of redrum spells...
Form: Limerick

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