famous funny poems

A:Web searches on these poets will turn up lots of funny poems: Ogden Nash John Ciardi X.J. Kennedy Lewis Carroll Edward Lear, Arthur Guiterman Wendy Cope

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A:As you may have realized... "The Raven" is not a ten line poem. :-) How about: Anne Sexton, "Her Kind" http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmmi... Robert Frost, "Stopping By Woods On A Snowy Evening" http://www.cs.rice.edu/~ssiyer/minstrels... "A Bone to Pick with You" by A. E. Stallings http://www.versedaily.org/abtpwy.shtml "Sonnet For Carryhouse and Keeper" by C. J. Sage http://www.versedaily.org/sfcak.shtml

A:Funny and short is this poem's theme Not even long enough to describe a dream You will give a chuckle, tho, when at the end I ask you to be nice and a star you will send !!

A:"If" by Rudyard Kipling - describes how one should live their life "Down and Out" by Clarence Leonard Hay - describes how cheating can be a slippery slope and how life is full of hard choices "The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam" by Edward Fitzgerald - describes the fleeting nature of life and how we should drip deep from its cup before the tavern closes and the cup is dry. This is also the most widely read poem in the English language. These three poems are serious poems on complex topics, but done in an easily understood way...and they are beautifully done as well.