Poems about Humour

• Stupid Pencil Maker

  Some dummy built this pencil wrong,
  The eraser's down here where the point belongs,

  by Sheldon Allan Silverstein 3 lines, 4 comments
• God's Wheel

  God says to me with a kind of smile,
  "Hey how would you like to be God awhile

  by Sheldon Allan Silverstein 10 lines, 4 comments
• The Cremation of Sam McGee

  There are strange things done in the midnight sun
        By the men who moil for gold;

  by Robert W Service 81 lines, 15 comments
• Rebecca Who Slammed Doors For Fun And Perished Miserably

  A trick that everyone abhors
  In little girls is slamming doors.

  by Hilaire Belloc 32 lines, 3 comments
• Ode To The Artichoke

  The artichoke
  With a tender heart

  by Pablo Neruda 84 lines
• Point Of View

  Thanksgiving dinner's sad and thankless
  Christmas dinner's dark and blue

  by Sheldon Allan Silverstein 12 lines, 2 comments
• Punctuality

  Man Naturally loves delay,
  And to procrastinate;

  by Lewis Carroll 30 lines, 2 comments
• Me And The Mule

  My old mule,
  He's gota grin on his face.

  by Langston Hughes 9 lines, 1 comment
• The Owl-Critic

  "Who stuffed that white owl?" No one spoke in the shop,
  The barber was busy, and he couldn't stop;

  by James Thomas Fields 84 lines, 3 comments
• Summer Dawn

  My sleeping children are still flying dreams
                    in their goose-down he

  by Spike Milligan 11 lines, 5 comments
• Welsh Incident

  'But that was nothing to what things came out
  From the sea-caves of Criccieth yonder.'

  by Robert Graves 53 lines, 1 comment
• High Explosive

  'Twas the dingo pup to his dam that said,
  "It's time I worked for my daily bread.

  by A B 'Banjo' Paterson 18 lines
• Motto

  I play it cool
  I dig all jive

  by Langston Hughes 6 lines, 1 comment
• Granny

  Through every nook and every cranny
  The wind blew in on poor old Granny

  by Spike Milligan 12 lines, 5 comments
• Snowball

  I made myself a snowball
  As perfect as could be.

  by Sheldon Allan Silverstein 8 lines
• His Apologies

  Master, this is Thy Servant. He is rising eight weeks old.
  He is mainly Head and Tummy. His legs are uncontrolled.

  by Rudyard Kipling 33 lines, 4 comments
• Mia Carlotta

  GIUSEPPE, da barber, ees greata for "mash,"
  He gotta da bigga, da blacka mustache,

  by Thomas Augustine Daly 31 lines, 6 comments
• Dreadful

  Someone ate the baby.
  It's rather sad to say.

  by Sheldon Allan Silverstein 25 lines, 1 comment
• It's Dark In Here

  I am writing these poems
  From inside a lion,

  by Sheldon Allan Silverstein 10 lines, 1 comment
• Hug O'War

  I will not play at tug o' war.
  I'd rather play at hug o' war,

  by Sheldon Allan Silverstein 11 lines, 9 comments
• The Gecko

  The Gecko lying on his stone
  Is always very much alone,

  by Leon Gellert 23 lines, 12 comments
• The Ballad Of Joe Meek

  You cain't never tell
  How far a frog will jump,

  by Sterling A Brown 182 lines, 1 comment
• Old Sam

  It occurred on the evening before Waterloo
  and troops were lined up on Parade,

  by Stanley Holloway 52 lines, 2 comments
• ygUDuh

  ygUDuh
            ydoan

  by e e cummings 22 lines, 3 comments
• About Boys

  Show me the boy who never threw
      A stone at someone's cat;

  by Edgar Albert Guest 15 lines, 3 comments
• The Party

  DEY had a gread big pahty down to Tom's de othah night;
  Was I dah? You bet! I neveh in my life see sich a sight;

  by Paul Laurence Dunbar 102 lines, 2 comments
• Invocation Of Laughter

  O, laugh, laughers!
  O, laugh out, laughers!

  by Velimir Khlebnikov 10 lines, 7 comments
• Phantasmagoria Canto I (The Trystyng )

  And Something white and wavy
  Was standing near me in the gloom

  by Lewis Carroll 120 lines, 1 comment
• Madam's Past History

  My name is Johnson--
  Madam Alberta K.

  by Langston Hughes 31 lines
• Madam and the Census Man

  The census man,
  The day he came round,

  by Langston Hughes 39 lines, 65,535 comments

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