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.

The Unfriendly Chimpanzee

12 February 2012

        Just a fun animal poem, written with my usual, childish immaturity!

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The Foul Creature

9 February 2012

    This immature story poem began as a serious thoughtful mystery, but the rhyming led me elsewhere!

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Seek and Ye Shall Find

2 February 2012

  Apologies for those of you who came looking for a deep and meaningful poem; this is not the one!

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My Sister is a Bookworm

29 January 2012

This poem begins very sensibly, but the rhyming led me in a totally different direction…..so I followed and the story developed from there!  Check out the amount of alliteration in verse 3!

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My Mum’s Menagerie

29 January 2012

This silly word play poem is full of lots of animal sayings that have double meanings.

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My Bogie Collection

29 January 2012

This disgusting (sorry!) list poem includes lots of moments of alliteration, but is too disgusting a topic for my daughter to allow me to read aloud!  For some reason, she thinks that I’m immature!

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Ministry of Defence Calling!

28 January 2012

VROOP VROOP! Red alert! Aliens have landed. Their spaceship is on fire…. It looks like they are stranded.

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Laughter and Progress : Best Friends Forever

28 January 2012

This story poem uses word play to make the case  that it’s good for education to be fun and that laughter helps us to make progress, whilst remembering that we must get the balance right too.  Read it, first of all as a story about Laughter and Progress as two living beings.  Then read it […]

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Healthy Food

28 January 2012

The humour in this silly healthy food poem is in the use of lots of word play and hyperbole (exaggeration for effect), with the occasional metaphor, and a tiny amount of alliteration.

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Bradley Mulladley Mulloon

24 January 2012

  Bradley Mulladley Mulloon This is known as a nonsense poem for obvious reasons!  One of my favourite poets is Dr Seuss who wrote “The Cat in The Hat”, and I’ve tried to copy his style here by repeating one rhyming phoneme all the way through, spelt in the same way.  Dr Seuss often did […]

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