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Nonsense Poems - Examples of all types of nonsense poetry to share and read. This list of new poems is composed of the works of modern poets on PoetrySoup. Read short, long, best, and famous poem examples for nonsense.
The Great Play
Did you see the showman, His act a lion he outran! Let me tell you how it all began, When in youth he lived in a van. Where the lion hunted, For food it was confronted. A sad tale it resulted, In...Read the rest...
Categories: nonsense, animal, growing up, identity,
Form: Rhyme

Understanding Space
The spilling of a brain, Thoughts that can’t be contained, The crumbling membrane. An agnostic wreck that cries out I’m four years old 5,6,14,17 A botanical solar system expect all of the plants are dead. Everywhere you look in my museum, There is...Read the rest...
Categories: nonsense, environment, extended metaphor, growing
Form: Free verse
Premium Member I'm Not Playing Whist
Here's my list you'll get the drift I'm not playing whist The game has a twist and rules may shift here's my list Cross the rift please do not resist you'll get the drift Here's the gist you'll find the gift I'm not play whist...Read the rest...
Categories: nonsense,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Size Seventeen Shoes
As a prank he dressed up in drag But his cover soon hit a snag With size seventeen shoes His tongue loosened with booze The cat was soon out of the bag ...Read the rest...
Categories: nonsense, confusion, funny, humor, image,
Form: Limerick
Palindrome Paddle
'Oh WOW, it was ever so cheap,' she shouted when taking a PEEP. 'This KAYAK is cool. My MOM is a fool - at NOON she was sailing a sheep.' *Bold font was lost when I copied it onto this...Read the rest...
Categories: nonsense,
Form: Limerick

Gender Meander
Mom's malefactor Your public's more than pubis Nature's ditched duet ...Read the rest...
Categories: nonsense,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member Quill Bleeding Ink
Never have I used such a word as quill in my verbose verse, even when bleeding ink in nightmare night, nor when tripping light fantastic beyond fair golden sunsets; O' come sail away, O' come sail away, O' come sail away with me on the...Read the rest...
Categories: nonsense,
Form: Free verse
Cup of Tea Dear
Tumble the marble blue and green, quarter and three read hue manatee, tea wistfully crusted in the wind blow. Apple cherry and pineapple, all good, delicious and decadent in flavor sips, careful dear there’s, something, lips… Mirror here you seem to...Read the rest...
Categories: nonsense, art, candy, child, children,
Form: Free verse
Demons
I sit back an watch Not saying a single thing, Plotting till i cant think straight, My brain boils with hate , Itself its trying to uncage all the racing thoughts giving way to rage So here...Read the rest...
Categories: nonsense, absence, allusion, anger, dark,
Form: ABC
Premium Member Raining in Summer
I've always lived in Southern California. I've never heard of summer rain. This notion, I have to say, quite honestly, Strikes me as insane.    I might as well speak of fluffy penguins Who live in the Sahara, Or opine on...Read the rest...
Categories: nonsense, rain, silly, summer,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Spoiled Milk
Funny/Bawdy Limerick Spoiled Milk The milk man and Sue like to shag. "The milkman sure digs me," she'd brag. Well the milk man delivered! And Sue sure got the shivers! But the milk on the porch went bad. So, that night, when...Read the rest...
Categories: fun, funny, humor, nonsense,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member Reasons to Worry
I think of scary things, it seems, As dogs that jump like cats, in dreams. They say I spend too much time caring With no reasons for such scaring; That, I should learn to relax at...Read the rest...
Categories: nonsense, animal, anxiety, cat, dog,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The House of Seventy Gables
I live in a house of seventy gables With twenty kitchens and as many tables. It's good for both winter and summer weathers, 'Cuz, in Spring, it flies - it's made of feathers!...Read the rest...
Categories: bird, nonsense, silly, spring,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Hills Awaken
Some hills come alive with a music sound. Where I live, there are hills all around. But listen to me. Let me tell you, bud, The only sound these hills make is "thud"....Read the rest...
Categories: music, nonsense, silly,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Simply Beyond Help
Zounds! longing for a merciful descent into the terminal ground where smoky eyes semi-watch streams of semi-(dis)information exhaled from smoking brains on a mission to search & deconstruct ticking clocks taunt timely bombs lost in purple blobs of orange haze awaiting purging deluges sprinkled with white bolts of blinding hell the raving raven's feathers flicker while flippant tentacles grope...Read the rest...
Categories: dark, nonsense, surreal, word
Form: Free verse

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