Funny Poems are the universal cure for the mundane, the miserable, and the moments you realize you’ve accidentally worn two different socks. When the world is too serious, too stiff, or just too logical, you need a great funny poem to remind everyone that reality is optional. This collection is your official permit to giggle. We’ve compiled truly amusing poems that specialize in nonsense, absurdity, and the sheer joy of a ridiculous premise.
Finding great funny and humorous poems isn’t just about reading; it’s about sharing a moment of delightful silliness. Whether you’re hunting for outrageously funny humorous poems, a few wonderfully bizarre short funny poems, or even a hilariously bad funny love poem (the best kind, really), these classics are the literary equivalent of slipping on a banana peel, we all know it’s coming, and yet, we laugh every time.
The Collection of Comic Genius
1. The Old Man with a Beard
By Edward Lear
There was an Old Man with a beard,
Who said, “It is just as I feared!—
Two Owls and a Hen,
Four Larks and a Wren,
Have all built their nests in my beard!”
2. Eletelephony
By Laura E. Richards
Once there was an elephant,
Who tried to use the telephant—
No! no! I mean an elephone
Who tried to use the telephone—
(Dear me! I am not certain quite
That even now I’ve got it right.)
Howe’er it was, he got his trunk
Entangled in the telephunk;
The more he tried to get it free,
The louder buzzed the telephee—
(I fear I’d better drop the song
Of elephop and telephong!)
3. Jabberwocky
By Lewis Carroll
’Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe;
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.
“Beware the Jabberwock, my son!
The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!
Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun
The frumious Bandersnatch!”
He took his vorpal sword in hand;
Long time the manxome foe he sought—
So rested he by the Tumtum tree
And stood awhile in thought.
And, as in uffish thought he stood,
The Jabberwock, with eyes of flame,
Came whiffling through the tulgey wood,
And burbled as it came!
One, two! One, two! And through and through
The vorpal blade went snicker-snack!
He left it dead, and with its head
He went galumphing back.
“And hast thou slain the Jabberwock?
Come to my arms, my beamish boy!
O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!”
He chortled in his joy.
’Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe;
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.
4. The Stargazer
Author Unknown
A stargazer out late at night,
With eyes and thoughts turned both upright,
Tumbled by chance into a well
(A dismal story this to tell);
He roared and sobbed and roared again,
And cursed the ‘Bear’ and ‘Charles’s Wain.’
His woeful cries a neighbor brought,
Less learned, but wiser far in thought:
“My friend,” quoth he, “you’re much misled,
With stars to trouble thus your head;
Since you with these misfortunes meet,
For want of looking to your feet.”
A Final Word on Folly
If you made it this far without cracking a smile, you might need to check your funny bone. The true magic of the literary world isn’t just in the grand tragedies or soaring romances; it’s in the sublime, glorious nonsense of amusing poems. Remember, the best prescription for a day of dreary obligations is often a moment spent enjoying one of these perfectly ridiculous verses. Now go forth and be silly, the poets command it!