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Nonsense Poems | Examples of Nonsense Poetry

Nonsense Poems - Examples of all types of nonsense poetry to share and read. This list of new poems is composed of the works of modern poets on PoetrySoup. Read short, long, best, and famous poem examples for nonsense.
Palindrome Paddle
'Oh WOW, it was ever so cheap,' she shouted when taking a PEEP. 'This KAYAK is cool. My MOM is a fool - at NOON she was sailing a sheep.' *Bold font was lost when I copied it onto this...Read the rest...
Categories: nonsense,
Form: Limerick



Gender Meander
Mom's malefactor Your public's more than pubis Nature's ditched duet ...Read the rest...
Categories: nonsense,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member Quill Bleeding Ink
Never have I used such a word as quill in my verbose verse, even when bleeding ink in nightmare night, nor when tripping light fantastic beyond fair golden sunsets; O' come sail away, O' come sail away, O' come sail away with me on the...Read the rest...
Categories: nonsense,
Form: Free verse
Cup of Tea Dear
Tumble the marble blue and green, quarter and three read hue manatee, tea wistfully crusted in the wind blow. Apple cherry and pineapple, all good, delicious and decadent in flavor sips, careful dear there’s, something, lips… Mirror here you seem to...Read the rest...
Categories: nonsense, art, candy, child, children,
Form: Free verse
Demons
I sit back an watch Not saying a single thing, Plotting till i cant think straight, My brain boils with hate , Itself its trying to uncage all the racing thoughts giving way to rage So here...Read the rest...
Categories: nonsense, absence, allusion, anger, dark,
Form: ABC



Premium Member Raining in Summer
I've always lived in Southern California. I've never heard of summer rain. This notion, I have to say, quite honestly, Strikes me as insane.    I might as well speak of fluffy penguins Who live in the Sahara, Or opine on...Read the rest...
Categories: nonsense, rain, silly, summer,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Spoiled Milk
Funny/Bawdy Limerick Spoiled Milk The milk man and Sue like to shag. "The milkman sure digs me," she'd brag. Well the milk man delivered! And Sue sure got the shivers! But the milk on the porch went bad. So, that night, when...Read the rest...
Categories: fun, funny, humor, nonsense,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member Reasons to Worry
I think of scary things, it seems, As dogs that jump like cats, in dreams. They say I spend too much time caring With no reasons for such scaring; That, I should learn to relax at...Read the rest...
Categories: nonsense, animal, anxiety, cat, dog,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The House of Seventy Gables
I live in a house of seventy gables With twenty kitchens and as many tables. It's good for both winter and summer weathers, 'Cuz, in Spring, it flies - it's made of feathers!...Read the rest...
Categories: bird, nonsense, silly, spring,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Hills Awaken
Some hills come alive with a music sound. Where I live, there are hills all around. But listen to me. Let me tell you, bud, The only sound these hills make is "thud"....Read the rest...
Categories: music, nonsense, silly,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Simply Beyond Help
Zounds! longing for a merciful descent into the terminal ground where smoky eyes semi-watch streams of semi-(dis)information exhaled from smoking brains on a mission to search & deconstruct ticking clocks taunt timely bombs lost in purple blobs of orange haze awaiting purging deluges sprinkled with white bolts of blinding hell the raving raven's feathers flicker while flippant tentacles grope...Read the rest...
Categories: dark, nonsense, surreal, word
Form: Free verse
Loretta Devil ---- to the tune of Cruella Devil
Loretta Devil Loretta Devil She thinks she's queen of the hill When she's hitting that herb at will The smack of her lips, the glaze in her stare All the people beware She's like a star with no skill Watch out for...Read the rest...
Categories: nonsense, age, crazy, funny, health,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member A Risque Dream
I had a dream, it was risqué Read on if you dare I was at a masquerade ball And all there were bare. Except for wearing masks of course No one cared at all Just got on with naked dancing Bouncing...Read the rest...
Categories: humorous, nonsense,
Form: Rhyme
Carnival Frisbee
This Frisbee here turned upside down It never flew quite right Landing on a post and spinning round Like circus plates just out of flight It's edges all inverted Said a clown that caught the sight What happens when you flip...Read the rest...
Categories: nonsense,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Nails
My brother calls me "Hammer Head" Cause I eat Nails ! My sister calls me "Tacky" Cause I eat Nails ! My friends call me "Spike" Just because I eat Nails ! Everyone says I am a "glutton for punishment" I just...Read the rest...
Categories: nonsense, addiction, conflict, emotions, funny,
Form: Free verse

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