FUNNY /SILLY POEMS

This category includes all of my funny poems but be warned! Some are gentle humour, and others involve toilet humour and bogies, but I only wrote them because the children made me do it: I’m a good girl really!
I have also mixed in my silly, imaginative poems, which are often funny too purely because of their silly content. Often I write these when I’m in a thinking, wondering mood. Usually I start off being sensible and then I end up back in childish mode after I’ve written a couple of verses! I love to write alien poems, as they are not restricted by facts but can go where the rhyming leads me, no matter how silly that might be, so I’m often surprised by the ending myself. On the other hand, sometimes I start with a joke, or a punchline, and write the poem with that intention in mind. Generally, my silly poems come under the category of “Creative Writing”, ie, writing using your imagination. Every child has an advantage when it comes to doing creative writing as children already have such a great imagination, so you just need to learn the writing techniques. Have a look at the TEACHERS’ PAGE, CREATIVE WRITING, for some ideas to get you started with creative writing.

Church, but not as we know it!

28 February 2012

      This is just a silly poem straight from my imagination, and is fortunately based only on jokes about church, and not on my own experience!  

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Cattitude

28 February 2012

      This cat poem is just a bit of rhyming fun with an obvious bit of word play in the title, but anyone who has ‘owned’ a cat will relate to the “Cattitude” that I am referring to!

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Beware the Knicker Nickers

27 February 2012

      This alien story poem is nothing more than a bit of silly fun, inspired by the word play in the title.  It includes some metaphors, alliteration and word play.  It did, however, become something of a challenge keeping up the rhyme pattern of aaaa. (See BEGINNERS’ PAGES for explanation of rhyme patterns.)

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An Unfortunate Poo-em

27 February 2012

  This shape poem, written with rhyme and rhythm, is a biographical poem, thanks to a very good friend of mine for sharing her private story with me……..Fortunately I am able to keep a secret, so the source of inspiration for this sorry tale shall remain anonymous!  The poem is nothing more than a funny […]

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An Alphabetical Alien Invasion

27 February 2012

    This is a fun, imaginative and descriptive children’s alphabet poem.  Children love describing aliens, as they can never be wrong, so the challenge here is to describe them so succinctly and precisely that the alien can be recognised from a picture. It’s a great, fun way to combine literacy and art.

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A Topsy Turvy World

27 February 2012

      This zany poem is full of all my imaginative wonderings about the world and how it was designed, and includes lots of alliteration.  Try redesigning the world yourself, and think through all of the consequences; it’s a fun exercise!

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A Royal Apology

27 February 2012

  This is a funny letter poem, written with rhyme and rhythm, and including lots of word play (of the toilet humour variety!) and occasional moments of alliteration.  It is the third poem in a trilogy which needs to be read in order to understand the content.

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A Bitter Pill

24 February 2012

      This is just a fun rhyme and rhythm story poem, including exaggeration for effect (hyperbole), with one word play phrase too.  It is based on a true scenario that anyone who has ever owned a tom cat will probably be able to relate to!    

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Who Pushed Humpty?

23 February 2012

    This silly story poem is not exactly an alternative nursery rhyme as it is not shadowing the original nursery rhyme but is using it just as the basis of an extended silly version of the tale, from the viewpoint of the suspects to the crime!      

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Unashamed Blob

12 February 2012

       This is a fun shape poem with rhyme and rhythm.

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