Tag Archives: funny poems

Poetic Muse

When a young lady wearing just shoes

Said, “I want to be your poetic muse!”

I said to her, “Rose!

You are wearing no clothes!”

She said, “that’s how you like your muse …!”

 

Philosophical Holly

A philosophical young lady named Holly

Owns an old and interesting folly.

I’ve talked of philosophy

With pretty Miss Lee –

But now lets discuss Holly’s folly …

Table Dancing

I know a young lady named Spink

Who is extremely fond of a drink.

Her and Miss Mabel

Dance on the table

When we gentlemen buy them a drink …

 

When I Met the Devil in a Pub

When I met the devil in a pub

I said, “have you come in for grub?”

He said, “the barmaid is pretty

And you sir are most witty!

But alas! This pub it has no grub!

Red

When a young lady in red

Invited me to come to bed

I said, “dear Miss Moore!

This is a furniture store!

And the manager has turned red!”

My Literary Estate

I am marrying a young lady named Kate

Who will inherit all of my literary estate.

She says, “writers have money”,

Which I find really funny –

As she’ll inherit all of my literary estate …

Jacinta’s Splinter

When a young lady named Jacinta

Went and trod on a splinter,

She hopped all around

And said something profound.

And then she cursed that splinter!

The Man Who Liked to Eat Chalk

A man who liked to eat chalk

Said that it helped him to talk.

One day, feeling bored,

He swallowed a blackboard.

Which worked very well with that chalk!

 

Miss Fox and the Telephone Box

There once was a young lady called Miss Fox

Who placed lots of ads in a phone box.

An elderly vicar named Glyn

Spoke of wickedness and sin

As he called Miss Fox from that telephone box …!

 

Too Much Latin

There once was a great lover of Latin

Who had a job as a professional assassin.

Whilst reading great Virgil

He became very ill.

That’s what comes of reading too much Latin!