SHORT FUNNY POEMS

Here are some classic short funny poems you can print.

A Failed Poet

by Eric Welburn

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I'd like to write a poem

And one that doesn't rhyme

But it's harder than I realised

I'm failing all the time

I eradicated couplets

All triplets and quatrains

I modified the rhythm

But had to start again!

And then I thought I'd cracked it

And produced non-rhyming verse

But in the end

The thing I'd penned

Was infinitely worse

I've come to the conclusion

I'm a rhyming man at heart

So I'm going to write a limerick

And see if I can be more successful

A Villanelle

by Gordon Costello

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I thought today I'd write a villanelle

Because a formal poem can be nice,

But this one sucks, as if you couldn't tell.

"If it's to be worth writing, write it well."

My mother said, and so, on her advice

I thought today I'd write a villanelle.

A poem is a tricky thing to sell,

Though if it's good you'll get a better price

But this one sucks, as if you couldn't tell.

I'm told that poets always go to Hell,

Therefore, because I like a little vice,

I thought today I'd write a villanelle.

I'm busy, so I wrote it down pell-mell,

Which sometimes lends a poem extra spice,

But this one sucks, as if you couldn't tell.

I can't remember now how it befell

That, motivated by some rare device,

I thought today I'd write a villanelle,

But this one sucks, as if you couldn't tell.

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