There are 385 Poems about Humor & Satire

Watching dan-
-cers on skates
By Lorine Niedecker

"I am the last . . ."
By Charles Simic

"I was one of the skunks"
By Bernadette Mayer

"It's such a shock, I almost screech"
By William Cole

"Sometimes a human mammal is not to be seen"
By Bernadette Mayer

$2.50
By Kenneth Fearing

... by an Earthquake
By John Ashbery

XI Mon. January [1736] hath xxxi days.
By Benjamin Franklin

from A Ballad Upon A Wedding
By Sir John Suckling

A Farewell to Tobacco
By Charles Lamb

A Felicitous Life
By Czeslaw Milosz

A Fit of Rhyme against Rhyme
By Ben Jonson

A Friendly Address
By Thomas Hood

A Lame Begger
By John Donne

A Lay of the Links
By Arthur Conan Doyle

from A Moral Alphabet
By Hilaire Belloc

A New Story
By Simon Joseph Ortiz

A New York Child’s Garden of Verses
By Franklin Pierce Adams

A Parable
By Arthur Conan Doyle

A Poem about Intelligence for My Brothers and Sisters
By June Jordan

A Poem, on the Supposition of an Advertisement Appearing in a Morning Paper, of the Publication of a Volume of Poems, by a Servant-Maid
By Elizabeth Hands

A Poet’s Poem
By Brenda Shaughnessy

A Position at the University
By Lydia Davis

A Psalm of Freudian Life
By Franklin Pierce Adams

A Satirical Elegy on the Death of a Late Famous General
By Jonathan Swift

A Suckling Pig
By Chase Twichell

A Toast to the Men
By Edgar Albert Guest

A Trenta-Sei of the Pleasure We Take in the Early Death of Keats
By John Ciardi

AAA Vacation Guide
By Ernest Hilbert

Absalom and Achitophel
By John Dryden

Absalom and Achitophel: The Second Part
By John Dryden

Account
By Czeslaw Milosz

Adam’s Task
By John Hollander

Advertisement
By Wisława Szymborska

Advice to the Grub Street Verse-writers
By Jonathan Swift

Affekt Funereal / Affekt Jamboree
By Rodrigo Toscano

Always unsuitable
By Marge Piercy

America
By Allen Ginsberg

An Explanation
By James Weldon Johnson

Aphrodite Metropolis (2)
By Kenneth Fearing

Application for a Grant
By Anthony Hecht

Arion
By David Wojahn

Art of the Haiku
By Irving Feldman

Ballade of Modest Confession
By Hilaire Belloc

Baseball’s Sad Lexicon
By Franklin Pierce Adams

Beer
By George Arnold

Before Sextet
By Bernadette Mayer

Belly good
By Marge Piercy

Bleeding
By May Swenson

Bricks and Straw
By Franklin Pierce Adams

Bungee Jumping
By William H. Dickey

Cast Off
By Belle Randall

Catalogue Raisonné of My Refrigerator Door
By George Starbuck

Channel Firing
By Thomas Hardy

Charlie Chaplin Impersonates a Poet
By Cornelius Eady

Chicken Pig
By Jennifer Michael Hecht

Christian Virtues
By Charlotte Anna Perkins Gilman

Contentment
By Oliver Wendell Holmes

Countrywomen
By Katherine Mansfield

Cups: 1
By Robin Blaser

Curriculum Vitae
By Samuel Menashe

Darwin’s Bestiary
By Philip Appleman

Dear Doctor, I have Read your Play
By Lord Byron (George Gordon)

Dear Gonglya,
By Brenda Shaughnessy

December 30
By Richard Brautigan

Deeply Morbid
By Stevie Smith

Destiny
By Marin Sorescu

Dirge
By Kenneth Fearing

Discrimination
By Kenneth Rexroth

Domestic Situation
By Ernest Hilbert

Don Juan: Dedication
By Lord Byron (George Gordon)

Don’t Let That Horse ...
By Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Drift
By Brenda Shaughnessy

Eagle Plain
By Robert Francis

Eating Poetry
By Mark Strand

Elizabeth Barrett Browning
By Vachel Lindsay

Embarrassment
By Brenda Shaughnessy

Envy
By Mary Lamb

Episode
By Zbigniew Herbert

Epistle to Mrs. Tyler
By Christopher Smart

Epistles to Several Persons: Epistle II: To a Lady on the Characters of Women
By Alexander Pope

Epistles to Several Persons: Epistle IV
By Alexander Pope

Epistles to Several Persons: Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot
By Alexander Pope

Errata
By Kevin Young

Escaped Housewife Prefers the Term Cosmetologist
By Karen Craigo

Expression
By George Arnold

First the Dog
By Zbigniew Herbert

Foolish Questions
By William Cole

For “Fiddle-de-de”
By John Hollander

For Laurel and Hardy on My Workroom Wall
By David Wagoner

Found Parable
By J. D. McClatchy

Fresh Air
By Kenneth Koch

Fugue
By Peter Pereira

George Moore
By Marianne Moore

Getting Information Out of Pa
By Anonymous

Giovanni Franchi
By Mina Loy

Godolphin Horne, Who was Cursed with the Sin of Pride, and Became a Boot-Black
By Hilaire Belloc

H. S. Mauberley (Life and Contacts) [Part I]
By Ezra Pound

Haiku Ambulance
By Richard Brautigan

Hammer
By Dean Young

Hanging in Egypt with Breyten Breytenbach
By Chris Abani

Heroic Simile
By Robert Hass

His Farewell to Sack
By Robert Herrick

Holy Shit
By Peter Pereira

Homes
By Charlotte Anna Perkins Gilman

Hotel Lautréamont
By John Ashbery

How the Pope is Chosen
By James Tate

How to Write the Great American Indian Novel
By Sherman Alexie

Humanity i love you
By E. E. Cummings

I Am Visited by an Editor and a Poet
By Charles Bukowski

I Believe
By Robert W. Service

I Feel (Verse Libre)
By Lucy Maud Montgomery

I Feel Horrible. She Doesn’t
By Richard Brautigan

I Would Fain Die a Dry Death
By Charlotte Anna Perkins Gilman

I’m Over the Moon
By Brenda Shaughnessy

I'm nobody! Who are you?
By Emily Dickinson

If You Said You Would Come With Me
By John Ashbery

Imitations of Horace
By Alexander Pope

Impossible to Tell
By Robert Pinsky

In Chandler Country
By Dana Gioia

In Memory of Edward Wilson, Who Repented of what was in his Mind to Write after Section
By James Clerk Maxwell

Instances of Wasted Ingenuity
By Dara Wier

Interview
By Dorothy Parker

Islanders
By Richard Emil Braun

Jabberwocky
By Lewis Carroll

Jacob
By Phoebe Cary

Jesus Returns
By Cynthia Macdonald

Jubilate Agno, 1975
By David Lee

Larkinesque
By Michael Ryan

Lawyer and Child
By James Whitcomb Riley

Lectures to Women on Physical Science
By James Clerk Maxwell

Let Me Count the Waves
By Sandra Beasley

Letter to ARC On Her Wishing to be Called Anna
By Matilda Bethem

Letter to the Local Police
By June Jordan

Li Hua's Messenger
By Peter Bethanis

Life Cycle of Common Man
By Howard Nemerov

Lines on Nonsense
By Eliza Lee Follen

Lines to a Don
By Hilaire Belloc

Lissadell
By Wendy Cope

Litany
By Billy Collins

Literary
By Kenneth Fearing

Little Soul
By Hadrian

Love Poem for an Enemy
By Richard Katrovas

Love Song
By Dorothy Parker

Mac Flecknoe
By John Dryden

Madmen
By Billy Collins

Market Forecast
By Alexa Selph

Marriage a-la-Mode
By John Dryden

Maternity
By Robert W. Service

Mating Saliva
By Richard Brautigan

Memorial Service
By George Garrett

Momus
By Carl Sandburg

More Females of the Species
By Charlotte Anna Perkins Gilman

Muckraker
By Cate Marvin

My God
By Susan Rolston

Natural Selection
By Alan Shapiro

Nephelidia
By Algernon Charles Swinburne

Noah’s Wife
By Linda Gregerson

Normalization
By Czeslaw Milosz

Nostalgia
By Billy Collins

Novelette
By Adrian Blevins

Nuns Fret Not at Their Convent’s Narrow Room
By William Wordsworth

Ode on the Death of a Favourite Cat Drowned in a Tub of Goldfishes
By Thomas Gray

Ode to Stephen Dowling Bots, Dec'd.
By Mark Twain

Ode to the Midwest
By Kevin Young

from Odes: 13. Fearful Symmetry
By Basil Bunting

from Odes: 6. What the Chairman Told Tom
By Basil Bunting

Of Modern Books
By Carolyn Wells

Oh! Susanna
By Stephen C. Foster

Ol’ Doc’ Hyar
By James Edwin Campbell

Old Joke
By Alan Shapiro

On A Diet
By William Matthews

On An Unsociable Family
By Elizabeth Hands

On Reading John Hollander’s Poem “Breadth. Circle. Desert. Monarch. Month. Wisdom. (for which there are no rhymes)“
By George Starbuck

On Stephen Duck, the Thresher and Favourite Poet
By Jonathan Swift

On the Birth of a Son
By Su Tung-Po

On the Subject of Doctors
By James Tate

One Perfect Rose
By Dorothy Parker

Opera Bouffe
By Philip Gross

Paintings
By Marin Sorescu

Parable in Praise of Violence
By Tony Barnstone

Parable of the Desultory Slut
By Tony Barnstone

Peekaboo: Three Songs for the Nursery
By Anthony Hecht

Pied Booty
By Dabney Stuart

Platonic Love
By Curt Anderson

Playing Dead
By Andrew Hudgins

Poeta Fit, Non Nascitur
By Lewis Carroll

Poet’s work
By Lorine Niedecker

Postfeminism
By Brenda Shaughnessy

Pretty
By Stevie Smith

Private Eye Lettuce
By Richard Brautigan

Progressive Health
By Carl Dennis

Prophetic Outlook
By Ernest Hilbert

Prosopopoia: or Mother Hubbard's Tale
By Edmund Spenser

Proverbs
By Thomas James Merton

Queer People
By Charlotte Anna Perkins Gilman

Radio
By Gottfried Benn

Rarefied
By Albert Goldbarth

Read to the Animals, or Orpheus at the SPCA
By Irving Feldman

Reading an Anthology of Chinese Poems of the Sung Dynasty, I Pause To Admire the Length and Clarity of Their Titles
By Billy Collins

Reading to the Children
By Herbert Morris

Report from Paradise
By Zbigniew Herbert

ResumÃ
By Dorothy Parker

Rorschach Test
By Franz Wright

Salt and Pepper
By Samuel Menashe

San Francisco
By Richard Brautigan

Sarah Byng, Who Could Not Read and Was Tossed into a Thorny Hedge by a Bull
By Hilaire Belloc

Satire III
By John Donne

Satire IV
By John Donne

Satires of Circumstance in Fifteen Glimpses VIII: In the Study
By Thomas Hardy

Schools
By Paula Tatarunis

Scissors
By Samuel Menashe

Scrabble with Matthews
By David Wojahn

Sean Penn Anti-Ode
By Dean Young

Self-Inquiry Before the Job Interview
By Gary Soto

Sent with a Flower-Pot Begging a Slip of Geranium
By Christian Milne

Separation at Burnt Island
By D. Nurkse

Shakesperian Readings
By Phoebe Cary

Signs of the Times
By Paul Laurence Dunbar

Similar Cases
By Charlotte Anna Perkins Gilman

Sixty-One
By Doug Anderson

Sleepers Awake
By John Ashbery

Soliloquy on an Empty Purse
By Mary Jones

Some Assembly Required
By George Bradley

Son of Fog
By Dean Young

Song
By Mark Defoe

Song: A youth for Jane with ardour sighed...
By Amelia Opie

Sonnet to Vauxhall
By Thomas Hood

Sonnet with a Different Letter at the End of Every Line
By George Starbuck

Sounding Chinese at Inspiration Point
By Tom Clark

Spirit ditty of no fax-line dial tone
By Bob Hicok

Stella's Birthday March 13, 1719
By Jonathan Swift

Study in Orange and White
By Billy Collins

Sunt Leones
By Stevie Smith

Taking the Thought for the Dog
By Katharine Auchincloss Lorr

The 167th Psalm of Elvis
By Tony Barnstone

The Afterlife: Letter to Sam Hamill
By Hayden Carruth

The Author to Her Book
By Anne Bradstreet

The Bachelor’s Soliloquy
By Edgar Albert Guest

The Battle of the Bulge
By Robert W. Service

The Bear at the Dump
By William Matthews

The Beasts' Confession
By Jonathan Swift

The Bison
By Hilaire Belloc

The Brassiere Factory
By Kenneth Koch

The Bumblebee
By James Whitcomb Riley

The Bunny Gives Us a Lesson in Eternity
By Mary Ruefle

The Canterbury Tales: General Prologue
By Geoffrey Chaucer

The Certainty of Numbers
By Bruce Snider

The Chain Letter (An American Tragedy)
By David Lee

The Circus
By Kenneth Koch

The Correspondence-School Instructor Says Goodbye to His Poetry Students
By Galway Kinnell

The Cremation of Sam McGee
By Robert W. Service

The Death of Allegory
By Billy Collins

The Definition of Gardening
By James Tate

The Dong with a Luminous Nose
By Edward Lear

The Dunciad: Book IV
By Alexander Pope

The Egoist
By William H. Dickey

The Emperor’s New Clothes
By Kate Gale

The Emperor's Dream
By Zbigniew Herbert

The Essential Shakespeare, Volume XII: Space-Saver Sonnets
By George Starbuck

The Extension of the Dead
By Gary Fincke

The Final Morbidity of the Interior Embezzler
By Henry Taylor

The Flat-Hunter’s Way
By Franklin Pierce Adams

The Frog
By Hilaire Belloc

The General Prologue from the Hengwrt Manuscript of the Canterbury Tales
By Geoffrey Chaucer

The Guru
By A. F. Moritz

The Hat City After Men Stopped Wearing Hats
By John Surowiecki

The Higher Pantheism in a Nutshell
By Algernon Charles Swinburne

The Hind and the Panther: Part I
By John Dryden

The History of Jazz
By Kenneth Koch

The Horrid Voice of Science
By Vachel Lindsay

The Hunting of the Snark
By Lewis Carroll

The Indifferent
By John Donne

The James Bond Movie
By May Swenson

The King and Queen of Hearts
By Charles Lamb

The Lady and the Doctor
By Helen Leigh

The Lawyers' Ways
By Paul Laurence Dunbar

The Magic of Numbers
By Kenneth Koch

The Miller's Prologue and Tale from the Hengwrt Manuscript of the Canterbury Tales
By Geoffrey Chaucer

The Modern Pastoral Elegy
By Conor O'Callaghan

The neighbor
By Marge Piercy

The New Chinese Fiction
By James Tate

The Only Portrait of Emily Dickinson
By Irene McKinney

The Other Side of This World
By Calvin Forbes

The Painter of the Night
By James Tate

The Pardoner's Introduction, Prologue, and Tale in the Hengwrt Manuscript of the Canterbury Tales
By Geoffrey Chaucer

The Penitent
By Edna St. Vincent Millay

The Pig
By Roald Dahl

The Poet Orders His Tomb
By Edgar Bowers

The Poet's Life: From Martial's Epigrams
By Gary Schmidgall

The Poetry Bus
By Pier Giorgio Di Cicco

The Poster Girl’s Defence
By Carolyn Wells

The Properly Scholarly Attitude
By Adelaide Crapsey

The Raggedy Man
By James Whitcomb Riley

The Rape of the Lock: Canto 1
By Alexander Pope

The Rape of the Lock: Canto 2
By Alexander Pope

The Rape of the Lock: Canto 3
By Alexander Pope

The Rape of the Lock: Canto 4
By Alexander Pope

The Rape of the Lock: Canto 5
By Alexander Pope

The Red Cadillac
By Reginald O'Hare Gibson

The Reeve's Prologue and Tale from the Hengwrt Manuscript of the Canterbury Tales
By Geoffrey Chaucer

The Retired Cat
By William Cowper

The Rolling English Road
By G. K. Chesterton

The Ruined Maid
By Thomas Hardy

The Shipman's Tale in the Hengwrt Manuscript of the Canterbury Tales
By Geoffrey Chaucer

The Snail
By Marin Sorescu

The Soul of Spain With McAlmon and Bird the Publishers
By Ernest M. Hemingway

The Spider and the Ghost of the Fly
By Vachel Lindsay

from The Spleen
By Matthew Green

The Stars Are
By Samuel Menashe

The Statesmen
By Ambrose Bierce

The Steel Glass
By George Gascoigne

The Suburban Classes
By Stevie Smith

The Summoner's Prologue and Tale in the Hengwrt Manuscript of the Canterbury Tales
By Geoffrey Chaucer

from The Task, Book II: The Time-Piece
By William Cowper

The Tragedy of Hats
By Clarinda Harriss

The Trickle-Down Theory of Happiness
By Philip Appleman

The Tummy Beast
By Roald Dahl

The Whale
By Hilaire Belloc

The Widower’s Courtship
By Elizabeth Hands

The Workforce
By James Tate

The Yak
By Hilaire Belloc

There was a Young Lady Whose Eyes
By Edward Lear

There was an Old Man of Calcutta
By Edward Lear

There was an Old Man of New York
By Edward Lear

There was an Old Man of Thermopylæ
By Edward Lear

There was an Old Man on the Border
By Edward Lear

There was an Old Man with a Beard
By Edward Lear

There was an Old Person of Nice
By Edward Lear

Thirteen Blackbirds Look at a Man
By R. S. Thomas

Thoughts about the Person from Porlock
By Stevie Smith

Three Poets
By Robert West

Three Six Five Zero
By Conor O'Callaghan

To a Captive Owl
By Henry Timrod

To A Lady Who Said It Was Sinful to Read Novels
By Christian Milne

To a Real Standup Piece of Painted Crockery
By George Starbuck

To a Wedding
By William Logan

To a Young Poet who Killed Himself
By Joyce Kilmer

To David, About His Education
By Howard Nemerov

To James Fenton
By John Fuller

To Matthew Dodsworth, Esq., On a Noble Captain Declaring that His Finger Was Broken by a Gate
By Anna Dodsworth

To my Dear Friend Mr. Congreve on his Comedy Call'd the Double Dealer
By John Dryden

To the Memory of Mr. Oldham
By John Dryden

To the Returned Girls
By Franklin Pierce Adams

Tone Deficit
By Kevin McFadden

Town Eclogues: Monday; Roxana or the Drawing-Room
By Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

Town Eclogues: Tuesday; St. James's Coffee-House
By Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

Tradition
By Lorine Niedecker

Translations from the English
By George Starbuck

Traveling dream
By Marge Piercy

trouble with spain
By Charles Bukowski

Troubled with the Itch and Rubbing with Sulphur
By George Moses Horton

Truly Pathetic
By Neal Bowers

Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Bat!
By Lewis Carroll

Two Tales of Clumsy
By Gjertrud Schnackenberg

Uncouplings
By Craig Arnold

Underwear
By Lawrence Ferlinghetti

University
By Karl Shapiro

Untitled [1. Now you are all here you might as well know ...]
By Thomas James Merton

Verities
By Kim Addonizio

Vers de Société
By Philip Larkin

Verses on the Death of Dr. Swift, D.S.P.D.
By Jonathan Swift

Watercolour for Negro Expatriates in France
By George Elliott Clarke

We Old Dudes
By Joan Murray

What I Know About Epistemology
By John Surowiecki

What We Need
By Jo McDougall

Which Has More Patience -- Man or Woman?
By Lucy Maud Montgomery

Who Steals My Good Name
By W. D. Snodgrass

Why Angels Disappeared
By Dannie Abse

With a Book
By Ambrose Bierce

Working Habits
By George Starbuck

Workshop
By Billy Collins

Writing in the Afterlife
By Billy Collins

Yesterday
By Edgar Albert Guest

You are Old, Father William
By Lewis Carroll

You Love, You Wonder
By Brenda Shaughnessy

Your Hay it is Mow'd, and Your Corn is Reaped
By John Dryden

[if your complexion is a mess]
By Harryette Mullen

[Keen and lovely man moved as in a dance]
By Lorine Niedecker

[Kills bugs dead.]
By Harryette Mullen

[Mr. Van Ess bought 14 washcloths?]
By Lorine Niedecker

[Old Mother turns blue and from us]
By Lorine Niedecker

[Sonnet] You jerk you didn't call me up
By Bernadette Mayer

[The bird’s-eye view]
By Ben Lerner

[The predictability of these rooms]
By Ben Lerner