Category: humorous poetry

  • All-World Wrestling Poetry—a collection of 52 wrestling poems

    _____         _____     The poems in this collection are on wrestling—the collegiate and amateur styles—but also how we wrestle with life, where we find wrestling in our lives, plus our gods, prophets and heroes past, those who have wrestled the classic bouts. It is modern and boundary-busting, and at the…

  • . . . and don’t forget these Christmas poems

                      Anonymous   At the Last         The stream is calmest when it nears the tide,       And flowers are sweetest at eventide,       The birds most musical at close of day,       The saints divinest when they…

  • Elliot’s Car & Sully’s Truck

    ~~~~~                           Elliot’s Car & Sully’s Truck                     Elliot, 2003                 Elliot and his wife have come to buy                …

  • Lite Verse with No Cholesterol or Trans Fat, by 33 Already Dead Poets, 6 Unknown Anyway

    ~~~~~       The following poems are selected from the 1920 collection The Book of Humorous Verse, edited by Carolyn Wells (1862-1942).    Each poet is represented only once, and in alphabetical order. However, links are provided so that you can investigate each one.   ~~~~~       by L. J. Bridgman (1857-1931)…

  • The Top 20 Greatest Banjo Paterson Poems of All Time

    _______     Below are the Top 20 poems by Australian poet Andrew Barton “Banjo” Paterson (Barty to his friends, by the way), who lived from 1864 into 1941. They are arranged from number 20 down to number 1, placed in order by my preference after reading the 222 Paterson poems found on the web.…

  • Cockle Shells With Blue Bells

    ~~~~~     A My Name Is Alice   A my name is Alice And my husband’s name is Arthur, We come from Alabama, Where we sell artichokes. B my name is Barney And my wife’s name is Bridget, We come from Brooklyn, Where we sell bicycles. C my name is _________ And my husband’s…