Tall Tale Poems - Poems about Tall Tale

We were all on a turquoise moped on Interstate 635. Mr. P.U. Fancy Pants Panda of course, got to drive. He is arrogant, and thus is always the boss. This was stated firmly by my pal Ross Ross cannot drive, he is way too nervous and tall. His hooves also land on both pedals, no help at all. Meerkat is hanging...

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My pet giraffe is called Tiny although he is extremely tall He towers above a huge sunflower that's growing along my back wall! One day Tiny appeared to be poorly The vet climbed up a ladder to see He said Tiny had a bad infection I must make him a scarf urgently! So I busily knitted with lamb's wool My fingers worked all day...

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You may not tend to believe me Perhaps you’ll start to suddenly Put your logic up on a shelf Open your mind and let yourself See things you never dared to see The year here was 1901 An unknown battle had begun No news on any TV show Or Orson on the radio Records hid, history undone Bored of the Loch, Nessie came first From...

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O Camelot! O Camelot! The winds have changed, the land got hot! Though dromedaries are quite neat, A bactrian's hard to unseat, And so the knights still joust a lot. At banquet feasts, the men are found, And like the table, they are round. The reason they are heavy-set: Girls now see knighthood as a threat; Who lives life chaste and honor-bound? Sir Galahad, a...

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In the small fishing town of Tunafishlips The competitors lined up all of their ships The race for the biggest catch had begun As they listened to how the last winner had won With all eyes upon him, he began his tale… “It was thiiiis big”, he announced with such pride His arms stretching out impossibly wide “I was first out of...

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A Sly Skunk’s Non’scents’ If you remember correctly, one night, I came upon Steve. ‘Twas a normal day that led to such a befuddling eve. For, Steve is a skunk who decided to bunk and not leave. I’ve learned just how quickly this sly little guy can deceive. You won’t believe what he’s done in my house in the...

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,A Skunk’s ‘Tale’, Twas a puzzling mid-summer’s eve When I became acquainted with Steve Bear with if you can For Steve’s not a man He’s an odd little skunk who won’t leave! I was driving, unwinding that night As my headlights swam over his sight On two legs he stood Like he owned street and wood I slammed on my brakes out of fright! When Steve...

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I’m upset with smug Peter Pig Who’d promised we could dance a jig But spies my bent trotter Gets nasty - the rotter I call him an ignorant prig! I’ve got a disability But nothing will ever stop me I’m a feisty young sow So I'll never kowtow Swing dancing makes me so happy How quickly I'd learned how to dance - Six lessons from my...

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A young boy who was smaller than small wanted only to grow very tall. Any progress he got his mom marked at the spot where he’d stand next to their kitchen wall. By thirteen, he’d grown barely an inch since age ten, so he felt like the Grinch. He drank milk to bestow extra inches and grow like the guys who grew tall in...

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Long ago and far away Folks still talk of this today, There was a place called Mount Y'all Everyone there was incredibly tall Anyway, that's what they say. The buildings there seem to touch the sky Everything was tall and high People there were over ten feet tall, They did not know a word called small And they never told a lie It was cold,...

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My big old dog had no tail He laid around because he was frail He ran away with June Frisky living on the moon Dinner is fried green and blue quail Date Written:2/28/2022 HowManySyllables.com...

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A rather long tale, it is written: The story of heroic kittens The boy was called 'Bat' The girl’s name was 'Gat' By the end, you’re going to be smitten In a medical flight to Ukraine A supply box fell out of a plane They were vaccines on ice With some scary advice: Keep this cold or you might go insane! Well, on impact, it...

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How he wanted a poetry prize! But no luck after seventeen tries. Seems if he's a poet, then few to none know it, And his ego has come down in size. He wrote poems in all forms and types, and attempted to earn legit stripes. For his Vogon and Grook, he got labeled a kook, but the rest drew no praises or gripes. He created...

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I think the spaceman tells tall tales I allowed. Others were excited by his stories; I was not wowed. Today he told me about a planet that he caught. And an interplanetary catfish that was full of red snot. They might be true, a girl said to me; her name is Naïve. She was aptly named by parents who had...

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*this was inspired by 'tall tales' that were collected and written by Zora Neale Hurston...this is meant to be humorous* I knew a woman who loved a man so much she couldn't hardly take his touch she would faint, wake up, and such...

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