Were you conditioned by academia to think that love poems, short poems, funeral poems and ... There are endless amounts of ...

“Double, double toil and trouble; Fire burn, and caldron bubble.” Penned by legendary playwright, William Shakespeare, this ...

Kelly Link’s unconventional stories feature diverse characters, from an old billionaire who must choose his heir with the help of a talking white cat ... of Short-Short Stories, Prose Poems ...

But you may not be aware that he was truly a master of quirky poems. Raise the funny factor of this poem by reading it to your kids in a silly voice. This short quatrain was a hit in 1895, when Gelett ...

Romantic and filled with true passion, the speaker in this poem is so hungry for his lover that he likens that hunger to that of a hunting jungle cat ... short and sweet—and riotously funny.

Writer Alan Katz didn't think poetry was for him. Then he wrote a book or two and learned that poetry is for everyone.

In between the funny poems, I share serious poems about kindness, respect, and inclusion (and science and math and social studies); the funny poems help to keep the kids “with” me. When they ...

a happy poem might have short, bouncy lines. In this extract from the poem Aliens Stole My Underpants, Brian Moses uses a catchy rhyme and beat to suggest a funny tale being told: To understand ...

October, 2024. Don’t judge! I know it’s Octobermumble mumble (not October 1st)! Doesn’t life sometimes get away from you?