Short Funny Rhyming Poems

Here is a group of very short funny rhyming poems inspired by (of all things) boring meetings and bureaucracy. Poetic inspiration is like heartburn, it can come to you at unexpected times and places. These poems crystallized during a particularly tedious meeting, but of course their roots trace back over many years of similar nonsense.

This poem highlights the authority figure’s reaction to an alternative proposal. It was doomed by its inherent common sense.

The following poem might have become one of the laws of modern physics, if Isaac Newton had been required to attend more meetings and spend less time sitting under apple trees. Of course, then we might not know about gravity.

The next short funny rhyming poem is based on yet another law of physics: inertia. The law of inertia (roughly) states that an object stuck in a rut will tend to stay there. Where bureaucracy is concerned, it’s more powerful than gravity.

Another less-than-endearing trait of large organizations is the tendency to create additional pointless work for everyone in response to every isolated or unusual circumstance.

One of the rules laid down during this particular meeting was that company vans could no longer be parked at the driver’s home overnight. Never mind that the drivers have been safely parking the vans at their homes for years.