Short Pun Poems

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Premium Member Pun

Epigram #90:  

PUN


A sojourn brief
Less words purge grief.

~~~~~~~~~




Leon Enriquez
08 May 2015
Singapore
Form: Epigram


An American In Paris

When Toby removed to Paree
The people all called him Tobee.
   “That’s not me,” he’d plead,
   Then finally concede
To be, not to be not, Tobee.
© Ed Morris  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Limerick

A Lone Star Pun

A cowgirl got bucked off her horse
And flew through the air with some force
A prickly pear
Caught her right where
A lack of chaps caused her remorse!
Form: Limerick

The Problem With Kidnappers

He said he was on quite a spree.
I asked what his next crime would be.
   I meant it in jest,
   As you’ve probably guessed,
But he took me literally.
© Ed Morris  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Limerick

Premium Member Pun

Pun
Wit suns
On the run


Spring
Now flings
Watch time sing


Face
Each trace
In sure space




Leon Enriquez
13 September 2015
Singapore
Form: Rhyme


Pundit

A lot of the limericks I’ve known
Were composed for adult ears alone.
   I guess that applies
   To this one likewise,
If the final word makes you all grown.
© Ed Morris  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Limerick

Premium Member Oh: Pun Yawns

ahhh...
open-eons
of...
open-yawns

oh! pen yon
as...
opinions
of...
'oh-pun-onions'

now...
open eons
of...
open yawns
are as...
open-onions


stan sand
© Sand Blown  Create an image from this poem.

Premium Member Wasteline

Cal Flitter dumps litter in haste,
Ms Witherspoon savors the taste
  of fast food, she'll throw
  trash out her window.
Cal or Reese are just bad for the waste.


Written 23 Nov 2020
© John Watt  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Limerick

Premium Member Christmas Pun

In "A Christmas Carol" by Charles Dickens
there are four notable ghosts or apparitions;
and of that quartet of wondrous ghosts
the Ghost of Christmas Presents is the one I like the most!
© Jim Healey  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Rhyme

The Habit of Love

She wanted to soar
On high like a dove
He wanted a wife
Who fit like a glove

She made her choice
When push came to shove
And soon came to be
Nun of the Above!

©MMXVII Rico Leffanta
Form: Verse

Premium Member Paronomasia

Paronomasia

Rhetoric usage—
A pun, a true play on words!
Shades of confusion . . . 
	Ditto sounds, other meanings . . . 
Phonetic pun poetic!

Gary Bateman, Copyright © All Rights Reserved
July 28, 2018 (Tanka)
Form: Tanka

The God-Complex Particle

The Higgs observation just ran up the score on
Mere mortals who can’t understand what it shows; on
Attempting, I feel like both bozo and moron,
Which makes me relieved that they call it the boson.
© Ed Morris  Create an image from this poem.

Rock On

Don’t take for granite who you are
Just be a little boulder
Remember that you’re made of stars
And someday when you’re older

You may be a marble statue
That the pebbles gaze upon
And the world shale marvel at you
And of quartz you will rock on.
Form: Rhyme

No Pun Intended

Show me yours
And I will show you mine
Can I interest you in a game of Doctors and Nurses 
Can I interest you in something purple
To tickle you pink
What do you think?
Am I wetting your lip's 
With my pun's and quips
Or do you just think
I have had far to much to drink

Premium Member Crocodile Tears

We had a most horrid schoolteacher,
And us children did all hate her,
She’d shout at us for no real reason,
And threaten to see us later,
She had a dip on a Florida trip,
And was swallowed by an alligator,
But only crocodile tears were shed,
‘Cos we were all just … gladiator!
Form: Rhyme

Fabulous Fun Footles-A Pun For Fun

WHO SOURED THE SOUP?   

blog trolls
blowholes

bloggers
cloggers

daft clown
sad frown

a nerd
absurd

intense
pretense

Miss Putz
she's nuts

old goose
obtuse
 
one jerk
does lurk

sick dude
so rude

soup pun
such fun


March 20, 2017
Jan's Footles Contest
Form: Footle

Premium Member Daily Dose of Legalese

Andrew was a wealthy lawyer's son 
Began each day with his morning runs
Circumstantial evidence
Disguised as benevolence 
Etches daily naughty legal puns



AP: 3rd place 2025, 3rd place 2022

Submitted on January 9, 2019 for contest LIMERICK II sponsored by JOSEPH MAY  -  RANKED 4TH
Form: Limerick

A Man Who Liked To Pun

There was man who liked  to pun,                                                                        F Thinking it was tremendous  fun,
He said he would dye
Which made his wife cry,                                                                               But his bright red hair made her run.
© Brita Roy  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Limerick

Premium Member Pun Run

Watch that crisp pun
Hurl a brief run


Watch that fine wit
Odd chime that fits


Watch that calm poise
Sketch a warm choice


Watch that glimpse deep
Come as you sleep


Watch that pain paint
Odd feel and taint


Watch that you see
What yet may be




Leon Enriquez
20 July 2018
Singapore
Form: Couplet

Premium Member Bamboo Pun

Stray words
In the windy breeze
Now heard
In a gentle squeeze


Soft sounds
In the bamboo pines
Now ground
In stray breezy lines


Sweet strains
In the rustling leaves
Speak plain
In green windy brief


Soft moans
In the tensile twirl
Leaves groan
In the whizzy swirl




Leon Enriquez
17 January 2015
Singapore
Form: Quatrain

Plato's Cave

In Plato’s cave the poppies grow
Enchantingly, it seems:
A soothing, soporific show
Of mesmerizing dreams.

In Plato’s cave the roosters crow
And proudly call the sun.
They preen and strut and claim to know
Its fiery light, each one.

The poppies grow, the roosters crow,
Though shadows on a rock.
We call this only world we know
The Cave of Poppycock.
© Ed Morris  Create an image from this poem.

Premium Member Rhyme and Pun Ishment

i would love to have the chance to ask the dog star      are you Sirius?

John Tirious won't tell people his daughter's name      it's Miss Tirious

if i were fuzzy wuzzy and lost all my hair     i'd be furrious

when songwriters erase      are they "decomposing" or "delyrious"?


[i should know better than to dabble in such puns, after all i am a groan man]
© John Watt  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Monoku

It Comes From the Pun

There is no pun under the sun that I’m ashamed of making

For once on the run the silliest pun can set the Earth to quaking

It’s not from the laughter it’s not from the heart that makes a pun so fun

It’s the flight of the run that makes the pun fun

And now it’s begun under the sun

This silly notion from down by the ocean

That a ton of fun doth come from the pun

You'Re No Pun

Like a skeletal skunk

You no longer make scents

You are a rotten moose

No longer worth a buck

Your opinions are like a dead bird

Dreadful and completely fowl 

The only thing you have of worth 

Is deep inside the soil

Maybe if you bury yourself

A new root may uncoil

If you somehow spring new roots

Like a dead owl I would still give not two undead hoots
Form: Ballad

Hugh, Ron, Eery

When Hugh and Ron got drunk together
and pissed a lake of mighty size,
their eery neighbor also spilled it
and let his eery waters rise.
By far superior was another
with depths of thirteen hundred feet.
His superiority was awesome
which Hugh, Ron, Eery couldn’t beat.
Below them lay Ontario Lago,
a bloke whose name is not much fun
because no matter how I turn it
I can’t create a lakey pun.
Form: Rhyme

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