Short Funny Poems

Short funny poems that don’t take long to get to the punch-line. Brevity is a good thing whatever your feelings about the poem. If you like the poem, then you’re left with that happy, “wish-it-lasted-longer” feeling. If you don’t like it, then you’re left with that relieved, “glad-that-didn’t-take-long” feeling.

Let’s start out with an all-too-prevalent lover’s lament.

Next up is a short funny poem that muses about the good old days before indoor climate control became the norm.

Here’s a poem that hints at the unpredictable nature of budding love (elsewhere on this site, you'll find whole batch of short cute love poems).

For more short funny love poems, follow this link to an entire page of the little rascals.

In the following poem, proper mental preparation seems to get in the way of proper athletic performance.

Here’s a short poem about living in a place that gets cold every winter, which I define as anything below 55 degrees Fahrenheit.

For a change of pace, follow this link to some short funny rhyming poems about meetings and bureaucracy. Really.

This poem is about the seal on a love letter. It’s a fairly limited topic, so the poem has no choice but to be short.