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Sourpuss Poems - Poems about Sourpuss

Horse Sense

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Are gay jockeys fruit of the loom
when riding a race on the course,
and would they need the helping hand
of a leg-up
to get on their high horse?

Would a long-faced horse,
a sourpuss...
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Categories: sourpuss, animal, fun, horse, humorous,
Form: Rhyme

Had a Big Heine Horn Haiku

...when brain is tiny
he always was whiny
had a big heine 

when on a campus
at times was a sourpuss
saw grass from the pampas

when saw grass we saw 
which they had cut with a saw
shall be se...
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Categories: sourpuss, allegory, analogy,
Form: Haiku



Premium MemberBittersweet For Sourpuss

...Remember when each of the tastes
bitter, sweet, sour, salty and umani,
had their own special place on your tongue?
When you could lick and flick a tongue tip
to savor one by one, 
each titillati...
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Categories: sourpuss, food, meaningful, senses,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberPuddin - Nursery Rhyme Potd 3-2-2023

...What's that on the shoreline run, all amok
"Is that a beaver?"Or
incredibly furry duck?"
Ponder they did Koala and Roo
About a stranger, that came into view
We must look closer said the ...
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Categories: sourpuss, 1st grade, child, children,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberSantas Magical Sleigh

...Santa’s sleigh turned magical at midnight on the twenty-eighth.
The elves were amazed. One yelled out “Isn’t this great?”
Not sure yet, said a peppermint stick named Sourpuss Tate.
Where is the sl...
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Categories: sourpuss, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Monorhyme



Premium MemberShe Is My Spiritual Cousin

...The elephant was schmanzy and fancy.
We liked her so well, we named her Nancy.
She liked to eat pancakes floating in jam.
Raspberry and strawberry with a sliver of ham.

We thought it was hilari...
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Categories: sourpuss, friendship, love,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberA Note From An Octopus

...Dear humans,

I am an octopus and I’m unhappy with how you humans think you’re so great.
You might say I have a bone to pick with you…
which would be true if I weren’t an invertebrate.

I want ...
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Categories: sourpuss, humor, nature, ocean,
Form: Rhyme

God Is Glorious While Calling Us

...God Is Glorious While Calling Us

While He has been glorious, 
God can always call all of us,
And realized,
Plagiarized,
Even if sinner or a sourpuss.

Jim  Horn

Motivated by another poem,...
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Categories: sourpuss, allegory, analogy,
Form: Limerick

Two Faces At the Same Time

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She looks like a Mede,
talks like a Persian
Got Democrat soft bray skin,
but underneath is
hard tusk tongue Republican

Girl Pharaoh-day
loves to zombie talk Friday,
while sleepwalk ...
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Categories: sourpuss, allegory, imagery, satire, word
Form: Dramatic Monologue

Amidst Swirling Eddies of Fate

...Amidst Swirling Eddies Of Fate...

Negligible power prevails
no matter one jock or nerd
feverishly hollars, fumes
decries, berates... absurd

fickle finger (middle phalange
doubling up as
fl...
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Categories: sourpuss, blue, dad, death, depression,
Form: Enclosed Rhyme

Premium MemberCats Don'T Play

...There was a big hooray in Kind-ville one day.
For a kitten was found, a serious light gray.
The premonition had come true, and in the best kind of way.
An animal with a pink nose was here, and may...
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Categories: sourpuss, 4th grade, 5th grade,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberSourpuss People

...Sourpuss People

Sourpuss people are the opposite of sweet,
And can turn a sunny day into mincemeat.
Their smiles are forced and bitterly insincere,
Revealing no sense of humour or good c...
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Categories: sourpuss, anti bullying, bullying, education,
Form: Sonnet

Carny Cat

...Circus cat Cecil
Fantastically flew free
Soaring sailing sourpuss 
Projecting piercing paws...
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Categories: sourpuss, cat,
Form: Alliteration

Trump Polygamous

...Trump Polygamous

Horrible Trump prefers to be polygamous,
Resulting in him becoming some sourpuss;
Likes to handle;
Even mandible,
And when he has gone we will never miss.

Jim Horn

Why d...
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Categories: sourpuss, allegory, analogy,
Form: Limerick

A Lemonrick

...I wondered what was all the fuss,
a new form of poetry thought to be tough,
poets shedding the limes,
using lemons this time,
afterwards looking quite like a sourpuss.



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Categories: sourpuss, humor, poetry,
Form: Limerick

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