Rhyming Poems

Rhyming Poems

Poems that Rhyme

Poetry that rhymes relays a message through the music of the spoken word. Their power is in their ability to get us caught up in the music so that we will let down our defenses and consider the message that the poem has to offer. Sometimes poets use rhyme as a tool to show the humor in the message they are trying to convey. Traditional poems are written in rhyme to help to add a musical element to a reading. A rhyming poem brings out the joy that can be had in appreciating the music in words.

19 Funny Rhyming Poems

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  1. 1. Common Cold

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    Go hang yourself, you old M.D.!
    You shall not sneer at me.
    Pick up your hat and stethoscope,
    Go wash your mouth with laundry soap;

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  3. 2. Englksh Is A Pane


    • By Alan Balter
    • Published by Family Friend Poems October 2017 with permission of the Author.

    Hear eye sit inn English class; the likelihood is that eye won't pass
    An F on my report card wood bee worse than swallowing glass
    It's knot that eye haven't studied, often till late at knight
    Butt the rules are sew confusing, eye simply can't get them write

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    Very clever and funny, but it kinda blows my mind reading through this at the same time! How on earth did I manage to learn this wonderful, confusing language?! I must be converting it into...

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  5. 3. The Life Of A Cupcake


    • By Shelby Greer
    • Published by Family Friend Poems May 2014 with permission of the Author.

    They put me in the oven to bake.
    Me, a deprived and miserable cake.
    Feeling the heat, I started to bubble.
    Watching the others, I knew I was in trouble.

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    I love this poem so much, I love to bake!! This poem is my top favorite to read and laugh for. Thank you so much for this wonderful and delicious poem. Hahaha.

  6. 4. The Ballad Of Rum


    A dog wandered into our garden one day,
    A friendly old mutt, didn't look like a stray.
    We never discovered whence he had come,
    But we brushed him and fed him and the kids called him Rum.

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    Oh my, Peter...in all the years that I have been reading about dogs, the poems, tales and stories always made me smile. Tonight though, reading your poem for the first time, something...

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  7. 5. Our Imperfect Dog

    We love our dog with all our hearts,
    But not so much her stinky farts.
    Her doggy breath is less than fresh,
    Yet we hug her nonetheless.

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    Hi Marybeth. What a cute story...he sounds adorable. It reminded me of our previous dog, also a lab, who was our resident present opener. She loved nothing more than tearing off wrapping...

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  8. 6. Deer In The Garden

    • By Noel Avis
    • Published by Family Friend Poems July 24, 2023 with permission of the Author.

    Come and see my lovely garden with its borders, beds and shrubs
    Take a look at the wisteria, the camellias in tubs
    Admire the antirrhinums the gardenias and stocks
    The asters and surfinias and towering hollyhocks

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  9. 7. Gullible Guy

    • By Richard Thomas
    • Published by Family Friend Poems April 1, 2024 with permission of the Author.

    I'm a pigeon and pushover, patsy and prey
    Who's persuaded by pitches of grifters to pay.
    I'm a con artist's picnic and flimflammer's feast
    Who is fooled and finagled and flummoxed and fleeced.

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    Great poem - so good to read a poem that brings a smile to your face. More please. Very best wishes, Ann

  10. 8. Inelegant

    • By Vicki L. Stafford
    • Published by Family Friend Poems October 2015 with permission of the Author.

    It is time
    To rhyme a rhyme
    A poem I must write

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    This is like when I first started poetry. I used to stay up all night on a single line!

  11. 9. Ladies Don’t Fart

    • By Ronald Doe
    • Published by Family Friend Poems February 2009 with permission of the Author.

    “You are disgusting”
    My wife says to me
    When I passed some gas
    While watching t.v.

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  12. 10. Man Musing

    • By Shirley A Bunyan
    • Published by Family Friend Poems April 11, 2024 with permission of the Author.

    I wonder, sometimes, why it is a fact,
    a gifted, handsome man should be alone.
    My iambic pentameter's intact,
    yet still I tend to lyric on my own.

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    Nothing like a good laugh to cheer me up. Thank you. Very best wishes, Ann

  13. 11. 'Twas The Night Before Christmas Hillbilly Style

    • By Whiskurz
    • Published by Family Friend Poems June 13, 2023 with permission of the Author.

    'Twas the night before Christmas and all through the hills
    The kinfolk were drinkin' and tending their stills

    The longjohns were hung by the chimney with care

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  14. 12. Home Alone

    • By Inna Grigorenko
    • Published by Family Friend Poems February 2020 with permission of the Author.

    My family's gone; there's no one home.
    It's only me who's home alone.
    I shouldn't hear a single squeak.
    There shouldn't even be a creak,

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    This poem was so funny. It was also a little scary because he thought he was going to die, but then he remembered he had a cat.

  15. 13. Sitting Here Pen In Hand, Brain In Neutral!

    • By Paul L. Kennedy
    • Published by Family Friend Poems January 2020 with permission of the Author.

    I want to write a poem, but I don't know where to start.
    Should it be an ode to love and come straight from the heart?

    Or should it wax lyrical of sky and moon and stars,

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  16. 14. I Hate Peanut Butter

    • By Inna Grigorenko
    • Published by Family Friend Poems September 2021 with permission of the Author.

    These words I say without a stutter:
    I hate the taste of peanut butter!
    In Reese's chocolate it may stay
    But keep the butter far away.

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    My 11-year-old son recited this poem at his classical school, The Classical Academy, this past month. He has peanut allergies, so it was fitting that he chose your poem to recite. He recited...

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  17. 15. Wind In The Pillows

    You will not believe it when I tell you now
    What happened last night, more importantly how.

    My husband and I traveled right 'round the globe

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    Great read, great laugh, loved it...

    What a journey it must surely have bean
    Blown away on a mattress in full steam
    Seeing places you've not bean to before
    O'er wild windy turbulent...

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  18. 16. War Of The Words

    • By Wendy Clay
    • Published by Family Friend Poems May 2014 with permission of the Author.

    Our English language? A curious thing!
    Hammers don't ham and fingers don't fing,
    Grocers don't groce and ushers don't ush,
    And why is a rear called a toosh, not a tush?

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    I don't know why but I laughed aloud at the end. This is a hilarious and cool poem.

  19. 17. Mary And The Mouse

    • By Trish Moyles
    • Published by Family Friend Poems September 2012 with permission of the Author.

    It started all so sweetly, Mary and the mouse
    It took a while to realize she had company in the house
    And Tess, she didn't worry
    She didn't even care

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    I have been reading this poem over and over again and can't get enough of it. This poem is very vibrant and happy. It makes a good poem to start the day.

  20. 18. Night Noises

    • By Alan Balter
    • Published by Family Friend Poems September 2019 with permission of the Author.

    My parents' bedroom is far from mine, so I have to wonder
    What the noise is every night that sounds a lot like thunder.
    We don't live near the seashore, but almost every morn
    I'm wakened by a noise that sounds like a fog horn.

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    The writer has given a humorous touch to a common incident found in many a home. Mother's lighthearted comment, "I don't mind; it's really a godsend" makes the idea more effective.

  21. 19. The Glass Eye

    • By Patricia A Stephens
    • Published by Family Friend Poems May 2014 with permission of the Author.

    The joke was very funny
    She laughed a lot of tears
    When suddenly her eye fell out
    And landed in her beer

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