Were you conditioned by academia to think that love poems, short poems, funeral poems and other forms of poetry are stuffy, profound waxings on the natural world and the human condition? Think again.

While the best days of the holidays are sentimental and sweet, the worst ones can be stressful and frustrating. So when the Christmas season hands you a metaphorical lump of coal (also known as the ...

Funny poems are tough to pull off. I’m not talking here about poems with humor in them; almost every good poem has at least one funny thing smuggled inside it. No, I mean poems with punch lines, poems ...

There are many reasons why poems serve as good reading material for children, which is why we created a list of funny poems for children. Those reasons include the fact that poetry helps develop a ...

You may recall learning about limericks (or even writing a few of your own) in grade school. If you’re all grown up now and you love cracking short jokes or writing funny poems, why not add a few ...

A mother called Caroline Olling Anderson penned a funny poem about her husband and his sleeping habits – in light of the baby they share. Anderson’s husband is a primary school teacher and she told ...

Gulshan Devaiah wrote a funny poem on the ‘Bolly mafia’, in which he joked about the supposed advantages, but how they were reserved ‘only for members’. See it here. Amid all the discussion about the ...