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Silly Poems | Examples of Silly Poetry

Little Kitty on a Bun
Little kitty sitting on a fabric bun, What is that your little paws are on? A little fishy made of blue, it's clear it means a lot to you. Little puppy friend by your side, open expression, nothing to hide. How adorable you are, all of you, You, your fishy, and your puppy friend, too....

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Categories: animal, silly,
Form: Ekphrasis
Premium Member Meaningless Abandonment
There's abandon the stage playing music too loud And abandon the podium in front of a crowd Abandon the radio is playing a tune, And I once saw a show with abandon the moon McCartney once sang of abandon the run And abandon the convent had a singing nun I sing with wild abandon when taking showers Wear abandon my hair with...

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Categories: happiness, silly,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Checkered Life
Tigers, generally, come in only one type, wearing a coat with a vertical stripe. My dad's stripes go sideways, and as one expects, my fur is covered quite nicely with checks....

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Categories: animal, silly,
Form: Epigram
Premium Member Newton and the Infinitesimal Nut
I thought of all things great and small - what happens to an apple or a ball. Maybe, I'll try calculus. But can it crack the infinitesimal nut?...

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Categories: science, silly,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Poor Mrs Newton
Poor Mrs. Newton had two kids. One found gravity. He was bright - while little Fig hit the skids and was eaten in one bite - different as black and white....

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Categories: science, silly,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member A Man, Most Newtonic
Here's to the fellow we hold dear, his blood, it was said, teutonic. He holed up in County Lincolnshire to escape the plague (bubonic). 'Twas there an apple fell on his head and gave him a wonderful notion. Before he even went to bed, he wrote down the laws of motion....

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Categories: science, silly,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member silly me
cold toes peeking through sandals on a winters day silly little me frostbite is likely its twenty below zero silly frozen me...

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Categories: silly, winter,
Form: Senryu
Premium Member Can't Rhyme with Jemima, and So --
Don’t know what was wrong with Aunt Jenina Though her face bore a dull green patina Her pancakes sure tasted good Like buttermilk pancakes should ...

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Categories: change, food, silly,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member Some Feet
Some feet are bare. Some wear shoes. That's news....

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Categories: silly,
Form: Epigram
Orpheus In The Undergrowth
"As the greatest of all poets and musicians, tho' you may call me 'liar', Hermes may have invented it but I perfected the lyre and with my music and singing if only I could see the forest for the trees I would coax the woods to dance for me but, on the other hand from where I stand, it appears to be, looking at it from...

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Categories: silly, celebrity, fun, humor, music,
Form: Rhyme
One Small Step, One Giant Leap
With those who want to test the waters, and yet have no wish to get their feet wet, but wait to have their cake (and eat it too) handed to them on a plate, I will neither split hairs and pick nits nor reason or debate (or tear their thoughts to bits) so, if they're going to 'fly', (jump to a conclusion) either do it or don't, as Yoda said,...

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Categories: silly, crazy, death, humor, mental
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member No Time for a Banana
Monkeys - start on your typewriters now. I need you to work fast - and how. There is nothing more pressing than a contest deadline - no time for a banana....

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Categories: animal, poetry, silly,
Form: Rhyme
Nut Screws And Bolts
Listening to you oh what a to-do it looks like you've come unglued or going bananas your psyche's addled the mind muddled brain's fogged boggled or befuddled is something missing a marble or two perhaps a loose screw maybe more than a few and making a run or bolt for it will never do it's not too late to join the inmates for as well you know you will still be there wherever...

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Categories: fun, humor, psychological, silly,
Form: Rhyme
Lemonade
When life leaves you lemons deserved or not some sunny summer's day neither fret nor sweat if citrus is all you've got to show for your lot to keep the blues at bay be creative pull out all stops keep calm stay cool either squish or get off the pot think of a drink (old fruit) and you're made in the shade easy peasy lemon squeezy simply put... make...

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Categories: silly, drink, fruit, fun, humor,
Form: Rhyme
Kathmandu
I've never been to Kathmandu it's highly unlikely I'm ever going to and I don't consider macaques the least bit holy while some there choose so to do tho' they may be Nepalese aristocracy no they won't make a monkey of me such couldn't leave me any colder as it's all in the mind's eye of the beholder and who decides what is...

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Categories: silly, animal, fun, humor, religion,
Form: Rhyme

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