Short Tongue In Cheek Poems

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Timmy, a cute little shrew,
Wrote limericks smutty and blue,
His rhymes were not 'Chic'
But a bit 'tongue in cheek
That he sent to some poets he knew....

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A sinner and saint
Deem equally sacrosanct,
So do the sacred
And profane consecrated,
Is not the path of faith quaint?
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Tanka (Tongue-in-cheek) |09.12.2022| faith...

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Very often write with my tongue in my cheek
Strange saying that is, but when I'm at my peak
My humour is best
Pound away on my chest
Like Tarzan, eat bananas and things that go, “eek!”...

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A quantum bit of tongue in cheek
The physics of an ad to pique 

A trusted name to seal the deals
Stephen Hawking hawking wheels




18.02.05

Kim Rodrigues'
Poetry In Motion Contest
1st Place...

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O, a big burly trucker
got a persimmon pucker.
His mouth shrunk so bad,
he got stuck to a wall.
The doc called Gene Simmons;
though he prefers women,
his tongue-in-cheek kiss
is the cure for it all....

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The lines I find pretty chic,
To readers if fail to click,
It is autumn’s leaf brown,
Nor is it curtain down,
A half-cooked goose packed off quick.
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Tongue-in-cheek |08.05.2021|...

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What I venture never to dare say,
Humour lets; and there’s no need to pray:
Readers look not askance
And approve it at once,
And as bonus I have it my way.
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Tongue-in-cheek |10.05.2021|...

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Let snow come alive
And melt once she does arrive,
Let then so much rain

That she can’t return,
And let things romantic turn,
Life’s some pain, some gain! 
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Tongue-in-cheek |35.06.2021| Haiku...

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Need more fuel to restart my engine
To continue my reign as a poetic legend
Doesn't happen often
A note on my coffin...
“A poetic genius without any question”

(LOL Tongue In Cheek!)


© Jack Ellison 2015...

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If you think what happened was too bad,
Imagine, had he been elected...
Oh four more years of him
On American dream!
Think, world's a small price paid, and be glad.
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Tongue-in-cheek 03/01/2021
Topic: humour, happenings...

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It's a gorgeous early summer's day outside
What could possibly go wrong 'cept a homicide
They don't happen often
But it does break the boredom
Sad that some soul must pay for our joy to provide

UH, tongue in cheek!...

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Preaching to the choir
one more like will do
Beating the last dying horse
postings stay as new
I’ll read yours if you’ll read mine
lined up in the queue
I’ll say yes if you agree
— who is kidding who

(The New Room: March, 2024)
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Still designing stuff at this ripe old age
Keeps me going, keeps me still engaged
On the top of my game
No fortune, just fame
Who woulda guessed I'd be still be all the rage

(tongue in cheek lol)


© Jack Ellison 2015...

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He set no limit to his ‘always’,
His ‘never’ was strewn all over ways,
Man of excess he was,
To blow up, his pet cause,
For molehills, mount of price he now pays. 
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Tongue-in-cheek |05.12.2022| Limericks...

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One's born, grey stuff inherited, 
Or gets made with a lot lifted, 
It's not how much you quote, 
How much yours be of note, 
If not, every next man’s gifted! 
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Limerick (Tongue-in-cheek) |03.12.2018| humour 
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Too many words you speak
too much left out there

too much tongue in cheek
too much to share

you want to give a peek
you want us to care

you are the gossip leak
then you check your hair

too many words you speak
too much left out there...

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Not all cheers come but from cloud nine,
Nor every vintage is good wine,
Nor just in fools’ fiefdom
Fools are fonts of wisdom,
Beware of man’s nerve asinine.
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Tongue-in-cheek | 01.03.2023 | epigram/limerick
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Our reputation,
tooth and nail

Our integrity,
tongue and cheek..

achieving the essential same
dressed up to seem unique.

The appeal is the prize,
but its premise remains mystique..

We love wearing the disguise,
but what really lies underneath?...

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To west lie when things I can't resist, 
Ye persuade me to look to the east,
Then haply let me feast
On what I should the least,
O mind thou art monkey, and health a beast. 
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Tongue-in-cheek | 01.02.2011 | limerick 
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'Tis noted that some media at times express divisive and jaundiced views!

Hence, such inane twaddle has reputedly become known as fake gnus!

(Written with considerable tongue in cheek and with profuse apologies
to the innocent African antelope known as a gnu!)...

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When I’m Sixty-Four

In days of Sergeant Pepper,
When I was twelve years old,
The Beatles recorded a track,
That was Pepper solid gold.

A tune written tongue and cheek,
“When I’m Sixty-Four”
Never believing when I was twelve,
I could ever reach that score....

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Not a leaf moves, they say, sans His will, 
There’s no point trudging on a steep hill. 
God smiles, veiling His guile,
Says with a perplexed smile: 
Fate is fine but what of your free will?  
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Tongue-in-cheek | 04.08.15 |Limerick...

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If only left behind be no proof,
It’s safe then to be the biggest goof.
Tall roofs always amaze,
Who cares how sound’s the base?
Dress matters, who talks of warp and woof?
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Tongue-in-cheek|46.12.2020| limericks
Topic: goof, humour...

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Thanks indeed great God for small mercies,
Chancy if man has all his wishes.
With just half, he’s doubled
His storehouse that troubled!
What else if wishes are wild horses?
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Tongue-in-cheek |01.12.2019|
Topic: humour, god, wishes...

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Meet a man that fudges from the fence,
Little he says ever makes great sense. 
His views, all but humdrum,
That he deems great wisdom,
And he’s been hedging O for long hence.
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Tongue-in-cheek |09.01.2021|
Topic: economist, humour...

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