Short Humpty Poems

Humpty Dumpty  had a great fall
Yet  did not achieve  greatness....

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Humpty Dumpty

indubitably

was a walnut

who fell off it....

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The arrogant man 
Humpty dumpty on the  ground
shattered eg-o now....

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Eggs
Scrambled
Fried on toast
Sunny side up
Shell...

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His face is so Stern
 if cemented it would crack 
like Humpty Dumpty...

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unscramble the egg
Humpty Dumpty should have lived
puzzle master failed...

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heart sensitive 
ties brittle 
done easily 
no undoing
humpty dumpty!...

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Humpty Dumpty sat on the wall
But Humpty Dumpty couldn’t fall
Because he had to wear a safety harness...

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another day breaks
humpty dumpty, ‘off the wall,’
peace is everywhere

Brian Johnston
July 25, 2015...

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All the King's horses,
And all the Knights that he made,
Couldn't help poor king Humpty,
And his desire to get laid....

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Like Humpty Dumpty we all fall, but faith will help us climb any wall.


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 8/23/2016
17 syllables...

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Some people seem to have it all.
Some keep running and trying.

And I feel gone.

Humpty Dumpty, 
would you mind scooching?...

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Listen to poem:

preview not a pinnacle

expectation unfolds a dampener
when there's always another
peak to climb on
the humpty dumpty horizon...

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on easter morning
                blue egg in the nest unboiled
                                         humpty dumpty mess

  Dave Austin...

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Humpty Dumpty sat on the wall
But so Humpty Dumpty wouldn’t fall
He was sent by the head of human resource
On a three week health and safety course...

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Huffy Puffy had a smoke

Huffy Puffy had to choke

All the king’s doctors and all the king’s men

Couldn’t put Huffy Puffy’s lungs together again....

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HUMPTY TRUMPY  

Trump, Trump, Trump,
Discreet, discreet, discreet?
Hump, hump, hump,
Cheat, cheat, cheat!
Chump, chump, chump,
Tweet, tweet, tweet!...

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HUMPTY TRUMPTY SAT ON A VERY HIGH WALL
HUMPTY TRUMPTY HAD A VERY BIG FALL
ALL THE KING’S HORSES AND ALL THE KING’S MEN
COULDN'T PUT HUMPTY TOGETHER AGAIN...

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Humpty Dumpty had a Great Fall 
His Winter was one of the best of them all
The Spring was a gift of Eternal Life
Summer reminds him of the Death of his Wife...

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Humpty Trumpty sat in the White House,
Humpty Trumpty had a great electoral loss;
All his lawyers and crooked friends, 
Couldn't make Humpty Trumpty president again....

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Running away, Humpty fell on his head

King’s horses and men just left him for dead

Fractured at once, so he cannot be tried

Dropped over easy then scrambled or fried...

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Republican head
Democrat heart
Mired in conflict
Forever apart
Symbiotic division
Zero Sum in intent
Mutual destruction
—broken not bent

(Dreamsleep: October, 2023)...

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Humpty Dumpty didn’t bounce like a grape
Nor fly away with a magical cape
He turned a shell of himself
When he fell off the shelf
Since they hadn’t yet, invented duck tape...

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She was chirpy
He was perky
They took the road
That was bumpy
One was called Humpty
While the other was Dumpty
They never had a fall
For humpty had dumpty had humpty :)...

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Lumpty Bumpty

There once was an egg called humpty

He was fat and round and dumpty

Then one day he fell

And shattered his shell

And now he’s a chicken called lumpty...

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