What makes poems funny

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The black sheep has left it's flock, And the kittens traded mittens for socks. The three blind mice have regained But instead of finding the opposite of a characteristic, you simply place your idea in a place where no one would expect it.

For example, you would not expect to go fishing, or surfing or swimming somewhere where there is no water, such as in the middle of the street or the Sahara desert.

If you were writing a poem about fishing, you could make it funny by setting it in one of these places. Whatever your idea — whether you are going to write about baseball game, a polar bear, your favorite food, or just about anything else — try putting it in an unusual place and you may have the beginning of a very funny poem.

I think some words are just funny all by themselves. In the notebook where I jot down my poem ideas, I also keep a list of words that strike me as funny. Using funny words may not be the main thing that makes your poem funny, but it can make the difference between a so-so poem and a really funny poem, because funny words can keep the reader smiling or giggling throughout the poem until you get to the punch line at the end.

So, whenever you have a choice to use one of several words to describe something, ask yourself which word sounds the funniest and try to use that one rather than the plainer words. There are actually several different types of puns, but they all contain a word that has two different meanings. For example:. Q: What kind of knots do you tie in outer space?

A: Astronauts. As you can see in each of these riddles, one of the words has more than one meaning. I could swallow Wales! The more techniques you know for writing funny poems, the easier it will become.

To make a poem as funny as possible, try using a combination of the above. For example, try writing a poem with a surprise ending, funny words, a play on words, and opposites, exaggeration or an unusual setting. For example, the following poem, The Cow Town Ballet has a surprise ending, a play on words, and an unusual setting cows in the ballet.

This here is the story of Jed Beaudelay, who once was the head of the Cow Town Ballet, the greatest of all of the old western sights, for Jed would take milk cows and dress them in tights. And every night how his cattle would dance! And when it was over the cowpokes would cheer and even the manliest men shed a tear for nowhere on Earth but the Cow Town Ballet had anyone ever seen cattle sashay.

Old Jed Beaudelay would still run the ballet, if not for the fact that when cattle sashay, and all of their tutus are flapping around their costumes make sort of a shuffling shuffle to move one's feet along the ground or floor without lifting them. And some no-good cowpoke, on hearing that sound, grew rather unhappy; he stopped and he frowned, then ran to the sheriff, deciding to tattle, so Jed was arrested for rustling cattle.

So you see, there are lots of different techniques you can use for making your poems funny. So here are several ideas for funny poems. Exaggeration One common technique for making poems funny is to exaggerate.

As you can see, exaggeration is an easy way to take any topic and make it funny. Opposites Another way to make something funny is to give it characteristics that are the opposite of what you would expect such as: a tiny elephant or a giant hummingbird a fast turtle or a slow race car a friendly monster or a mean kitten a stinky rose or a sweet smelling skunk To find a funny opposite, first choose an idea to write about. Using opposites in this way can make it easy for you to come up with funny ideas for poems.

First you write a normal poem, and then you reverse the lines. The first words of your lines will end up being the last words when your poem is reversed. Now that you know how to do it, see if you can add one or two more stanzas of your own to Backward Betty. Have fun! A tongue twister is a poem that is nearly impossible to read without tripping up as you recite it.

So how do you write a tongue twister? How do you write a poem that is guaranteed to trip up all but the most careful reader?

All you need to do is make a list of words that sound a lot alike and then putting them together. So where, by the seashore, would Shelley Sellers sell her shells? So here we go. Now we know who she is and where she sells her shells, but who buys them? Who is Shelley selling shells to?

Smelly rhymes with Shelley, and dwellers rhymes with Sellers, so what if she sells her shells to smelly seashore dwellers? What makes a tongue twister hard to say is the fact that it has lots of similar , but slightly different sounds. This makes it somewhat confusing to say; it trips up the tongue.

See what I mean? Repetition means repeating words, phrases, lines, or entire stanzas in a poem. Using repetition in a poem can make it easier to read and remember. One of the easiest ways to use repetition in a poem is to repeat the first words of every line or every other line.

Long before I became a poet, way back when I was in college, one of my teachers asked the class to write a repetition poem, and this is what I turned in:. Each begins with me imagining something ridiculous that I used to be, and ends with a pun of some sort, just as we discussed in Chapter 4.

You can also repeat entire sentences throughout a poem. For example, imagine a person who thinks they are beautiful, though maybe they are not quite as pretty as they think. Can you think of a few more ways to describe this person? What about the feet? Are they size 23? The knees? The hands? The lips? Think about it and then add another stanza.

Or two. Or three. When you are all done describing this unusual person, find a way to end your poem, perhaps like this. Remember what I said earlier: any one funny poem may contain features of several different types. Seuss have written funny list poems. A list poem usually consists of three parts, a beginning, an ending, and a long list of things in the middle. One way to get started with list poems is to take a list poem that someone else has written and see if you can add another stanza or two to the list in the middle.

For example, you might rhyme fox and ox, or goose and moose, or eagle and beagle, or snail and whale, and you might come up with something like this:. Today I decided to write a list poem about clothes. Now I just need a beginning and an ending and I can start working on my list.

That sounds pretty good to me. Now I can make a list of all the clothes she wears, like twelve pairs of slacks, eighteen shirts, thirty-seven hats, and so forth. Or maybe you could come up with your own list poem with some rhyming foods, animals, or something else. And one more thing: April Fools! Math class was so boring that I crept out of the room. In just one minute, I would be out of school; you could tell. Unluckily, I was distracted by a tasty smell.

On it there were some crunchy nuts and sweet strawberry cream! I then was running quickly to the smell, faster and faster. I then collided with someone and it was the headmaster!

He stared at me angrily because I got his attention. I hope you like them! Hello, my name is Gloson and I am an year-old kid who lives in Malaysia. Here, I blog about anything interesting that I learn, including how-to's tips, and more. Besides blogging, I am a funny poet who writes funny poetry that makes you giggle.

Some of my funny poems can be found in this blog. Nice to meet you,Gloson.. I like your poem.. I wrote a few poems before. Keep it up…. So, Happy Belated Birthday to Gloson […]. Thanks for the info!! Your email address will not be published. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. Welcome to Gloson Blog. Say You Can! Funny Ideas How do I get funny ideas? Here is an example: The Monster One sunny day, I escaped from school.

Exaggeration Poems How do you write exaggeration poems? The fastest tortoise on Earth; it runs fast as you can blink. The proudest fox in the world which has a big, long tail.

The smallest building; you see it with magnifying glass. The shortest man in the world or maybe the tallest grass! Well, it reaches beyond the sky. It is also strong.