Short Funny Poems and Poetry

Life Is Fun

Life is fun,
Until your done,
Time of life is great,
Some people hesitate,
Now is time for you to die,
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The Shrines of Old are broken down

The shrines of old are broken down;
the faiths that knelt at them are dead.
Nothing’s strange, and nought unknown:
all’s been done and all been said.
Tired of knowledge, now we sigh
for a little mystery.

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Ah Now this happy month is gone

Ah, now this happy month is gone,
not now, my heart, complain,
nor rail at time because so soon
he takes his own again.

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The last image

A CHARM invests a face
Imperfectly beheld,—
The lady dare not lift her veil
For fear it be dispelled.
But peers beyond her mesh,
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Wife

I’M wife; I ’ve finished that,
That other state;
I ’m Czar, I ’m woman now:
It ’s safer so.
How odd the girl’s life looks
Behind this soft eclipse!
I think that earth seems so
To those in heaven now.
This being comfort, then
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A Rapture of Legacies

TO tell the beauty would decrease,
To state the Spell demean,
There is a syllableless sea
Of which it is the sign.
My will endeavours for its word
And fails, but entertains
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Immorality

AMBITION cannot find him,
Affection doesn’t know
How many leagues of Nowhere
Lie between them now.
Yesterday undistinguished—
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Immunity

IMMURED in Heaven! What a Cell!
Let every bondage be,
Thou Sweetest of the Universe,
Like that which ravished thee!


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THIS quiet Dust was Gentlemen and Ladies,

THIS quiet Dust was Gentlemen and Ladies,
And Lads and Girls;
Was laughter and ability and sighing,
And frocks and curls.
This passive place a Summer’s nimble mansion,
Where Bloom and Bees
Fulfilled their Oriental Circuit,
Then ceased like these.


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Holes in The Sky

There are holes in the sky
Where the rain gets in
But there ever so small
That’s why the rain is thin.

By Spike Milligan


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