Think again. There are endless amounts of silly, whimsical and funny poems sure to give you a chuckle. Below, you’ll find a ...

Roses are red, violets are blue; we love us some funny poems, how about you? Part joke, part poetry, funny roses-are-red ...

Paul Engle noted that “poetry is ordinary language raised to the nth power.” As if by magic, poetry books capture feelings that are often elusive and put into words our deepest pain and ...

But I’ve been a professional writer (for books, TV, advertising, game shows, animation and more) since age ... poems, I just didn’t think poetry was for me. Not long after, while writing funny ...

My dear friend David, a prolific writer, wrote a funny poem recently about half lives that made me rethink my own thoughts about birthdays. About how when we’re kids, we’re always rounding up to seem ...

Students could brainstorm ways in which a poem could be made funny, and when and why you would want to make a poem humorous. Students could have a ‘funny poem’ competition and try to write ...

On October 9, 1849, just two days after Edgar Allan Poe died, the final poem he wrote before his death was released. “Annabel Lee” told the story of a young love cut short. In their youth (I ...

Here’s how he describes the experience in the new poem “How I Wrote Certain of My Books”: What is that? Borzutzky obviously means to be funny — he is a satirist, after all — but he’s ...

Poetry is close to my heart. I would be lost without its very specific magic, its ability to spark wonder and shock and to open up fresh vistas on life in God. But as W. H. Auden famously says in his ...

Shortly after he was found, Julian's boyfriend Aaron Hayes, 18, requested a poem as part of an obituary and Julian's mum Beverley Griffiths, 59, immediately obliged. In just 25 minutes, Beverley ...

I became kind of obsessed with the relationship between spiritual traditions and the larger philosophy of human nature that I had grown up with, this idea that humans are made in the image of God, ...