So you want to write a poem but can’t think of anything good? Join the club! I once tried to write a poem about my cat and ended up with something that made my brother ask if I needed a doctor. The thing is, funny poems don’t need to be about fancy stuff. They can be about the weird things in life that make us laugh.
Like that time you got your head stuck in a sweater. Or how your phone always dies right when you need it most. These everyday silly moments? They make the best funny poems! And guess what? They’re way easier to write than those deep, sad poems about lost love and broken dreams. (Who needs that anyway?)
Ready to laugh your way through poetry? Let’s dive into some ideas that will have you rhyming about ridiculous things in no time!
Funny Things to Write Poems About
Need a good laugh? These poem ideas will help you create silly verses that will make people smile. From everyday objects to weird situations, there’s something here for every funny bone.
1. Your Sock’s Secret Life
Ever wonder what your socks do when they run away from the dryer? Write a poem about the wild adventures of that missing sock. Maybe it’s having a party with other lost socks in your house!
The sock rebellion happens in laundry rooms across the country. They plot their escape while tumbling in the dryer, then make a break for it when you’re folding clothes. Your poem could tell the tale of their sock society hidden behind your washing machine.
2. The Epic Battle Against a Spider
Turn your fear into funny by writing about your dramatic fight with a tiny spider. Make yourself the hero who screams for backup while standing on a chair!
Most of us have experienced that moment of pure panic when we spot an eight-legged visitor on the wall. Your poem could track your journey from terror to triumph as you try to capture it with a glass and paper while keeping a safe ten-foot distance.
3. Talking to Plants
Create a poem about the one-sided conversations you have with your houseplants. Do you beg them to stay alive? Do you apologize for forgetting to water them?
People who talk to plants swear it helps them grow better. Your funny poem might include the deep secrets you share with your fern, or the motivational speeches you give your struggling cactus. Bonus points if you include the plant’s silent judgment!
4. The Public Bathroom Experience
Write a hilarious poem about the strange rules and awkward moments of using public bathrooms. From the tiny gaps in stall doors to the mystery of why someone always talks on their phone in there!
Public bathrooms are a shared human experience filled with unwritten rules. Your poem could explore the careful dance of avoiding eye contact, the panic when the lock doesn’t work, or the weird competitions at the hand dryers.
5. Autocorrect Disasters
Turn your text message fails into poetic gold. Write about that time autocorrect changed your innocent message into something that made your grandma gasp!
We’ve all sent texts that got completely changed by our “helpful” phones. Your poem could list all the ways autocorrect has betrayed you, or tell the story of one particularly bad message that almost got you fired or dumped.
6. The Shopping Cart With the Bad Wheel
Create a poem about the supermarket cart that always pulls to the left, making shopping feel like wrestling an angry animal through the store.
That squeaky, wobbly wheel has ruined countless shopping trips. Your poem might describe the epic journey from produce to dairy, fighting the cart’s determination to crash into every display. Include the looks from other shoppers who seem to always get the good carts!
7. Waiting Forever at the Doctor’s Office
Write a funny poem about what goes through your mind during that endless wait in the doctor’s office, surrounded by old magazines and the sound of sniffling.
The exam room wait feels like years, especially when you’re wearing that paper gown with the back open. Your poem could count all the ceiling tiles, describe the weird medical posters, or share your internal debate about whether it’s too late to run away.
8. Your Relationship With the Fridge
Craft a love poem to your refrigerator, the keeper of all your midnight snacks and leftover pizza. Does it judge you when you open it for the fifth time in an hour?
Our fridges see us at our worst – in pajamas, bed hair, eating cold spaghetti at 2 AM. Your poem might talk about the fridge light as a spotlight on your shame, or the sad sounds it makes when you keep opening it hoping new food has magically appeared.
9. The Office Coffee Machine
Write about the ancient office coffee maker that produces something that might be coffee, or might be liquid punishment for taking too many sick days.
Office coffee is its own food group – thick, bitter, and somehow always slightly burned. Your poem could describe your coworkers’ faces after the first sip, or the strange rituals people perform hoping to make it taste better.
10. The Self-Checkout Voice
Create a funny poem about your relationship with the judgy robot voice at the self-checkout. Why does it always announce your embarrassing purchases so loudly?
Self-checkout machines seem designed to shame us. Your poem might include the machine’s passive-aggressive “unexpected item in bagging area” when you just put down your wallet, or how it calls for assistance when you’re buying something private.
11. Your Car’s Personality
Write a poem giving your car a personality based on its quirks. Does it refuse to start when it’s raining? Does the radio only work when you pat the dashboard?
Old cars develop weird habits that make them seem alive. Your poem could include the strange noises your car makes that mechanics can never find, or how it seems to know when you’ve just spent your last dollar and chooses that moment to need repairs.
12. The Alarm Clock Relationship
Craft a dramatic poem about your toxic relationship with your alarm clock. The daily betrayal, the hitting of snooze, the promises to go to bed earlier that you never keep.
The morning battle with the alarm is universal. Your poem might describe the different stages of alarm grief – denial when it first rings, anger as it continues, bargaining for “just five more minutes,” and finally the acceptance that yes, you have to get up.
13. Instructions on Food Packages
Write a funny poem about those ridiculous cooking instructions on food packages. “Heat for exactly 47 seconds, then let stand for 2 minutes while hopping on one foot.”
Package instructions often seem written by aliens who’ve never seen humans cook. Your poem could exaggerate the specific, impossible steps, or describe what happens when you ignore them completely and microwave everything on high for random amounts of time.
14. Haircuts Gone Wrong
Create a poem about that terrible haircut you got when you tried to save money. How long did you wear hats afterward? Did your friends tell you it “didn’t look that bad”?
Bad haircuts are temporary, but the photos on social media last forever. Your poem might track the five stages of haircut grief, or describe your attempts to fix it yourself, making everything so much worse.
15. The Mystery of Missing Pens
Write a detective-style poem investigating where all your pens go. You buy them by the pack, yet can never find one when needed!
The case of the vanishing pens is a global mystery. Your poem could suggest crazy theories about pen thieves, pen escape routes, or a secret pen society that meets in your desk drawer when you’re not looking.
16. The Dance of Putting on Skinny Jeans
Craft a poem about the hilarious gymnastics involved in putting on tight jeans. The hopping, wiggling, and lying on the bed to zip them up deserves its own Olympic event!
Getting into skinny jeans after they’ve been washed is a true test of human flexibility. Your poem might walk through the step-by-step process, including the moment you wonder if they shrunk or if last night’s ice cream is to blame.
17. WiFi Password Panic
Write about the stress of needing to share your complicated WiFi password with guests. Why did you make it so long and weird? Why does it include your pet’s birthday and three special characters?
The shame of having to admit your password is “FluffyKitty2000!” is real. Your poem could describe watching your guest try to type it correctly three times while you pretend it’s not a weird password.
18. The Epic Quest for TV Remote
Create a poem about searching for the lost TV remote. Check under cushions! Look in the fridge! Did the dog hide it again?
The missing remote always disappears at the exact moment your favorite show starts. Your poem might describe turning the living room upside down, only to find it in the most obvious place or somewhere impossible like inside a cereal box.
19. Predictive Text Poetry
Let your phone’s predictive text feature write a poem for you by always selecting the middle suggested word. The results are weird, wonderful, and make no sense!
Predictive text poems create strange word salad that somehow feels deep. Your poem about predictive text could include examples of what happens when you let your phone finish your sentences, like telling your boss “I’ll be late because my banana has anxiety.”
20. The Suspicious Cat
Write a poem from your cat’s point of view, watching you with suspicion as you bring home grocery bags. What does your cat think you’re doing? Planning its downfall?
Cats always look like they’re judging our life choices. Your poem might show your daily activities through your cat’s eyes, where opening a can of tuna becomes a personal betrayal and vacuuming is clearly an attempt to destroy all cat-kind.
21. Trying to Take a Good Selfie
Craft a poem about taking 57 selfies to get one that doesn’t make you look like you have three chins or scary eyes. The angles! The lighting! The desperation!
The selfie struggle is real. Your poem could count the many failed attempts, the weird faces you accidentally make, and how your arm cramps up holding the phone at that perfect angle that makes you look 10 pounds lighter.
22. The Office Fridge Drama
Write about the passive-aggressive notes left on food in the office refrigerator. “To whoever stole my yogurt: I hope you choke on it (but not really because HR made me add this part).”
Office fridge politics deserve their own reality show. Your poem might feature the lunch thief, the person who stores smelly food, and the office manager who threatens to clean out the fridge but never does.
23. Autocomplete Search History
Create a funny poem about those embarrassing autocomplete suggestions that pop up when someone else uses your computer. “No, I wasn’t really searching for ‘is it normal for toes to look like baby carrots’!”
Our search history reveals our strangest questions. Your poem could list all the weird things you’ve asked Google at 3 AM, or the panic when you realize someone can see your recent searches.
24. The Mystery Leftovers
Write about finding ancient leftovers in the back of your fridge. Is that pasta from last month? Is it moving on its own now? Has it developed intelligence?
We all have food science experiments growing in our fridges. Your poem might describe opening the container with a hazmat suit, or the tough decision of whether to wash the container or just throw the whole thing away.
25. Instructions to Assemble Furniture
Craft a poem about trying to put together furniture using pictures-only instructions. Why are there 17 extra screws? Why does your bookshelf look like a sad table?
Furniture assembly is the true test of a relationship. Your poem could walk through the stages of furniture building rage, from confidence to confusion to consideration of whether the half-built nightstand would make good firewood.
26. The Toilet Paper Debate
Write a funny poem about the great debate: over or under? Should toilet paper hang over the top of the roll or under it? Marriages have ended over less!
This household debate never ends. Your poem might present both sides of the argument, the scientific evidence supporting the “over” position, and the chaos caused when someone puts it on the “wrong” way.
27. Explaining Technology to Grandparents
Create a poem about the patient process of explaining smartphones to older family members. “No, you don’t need to yell at Siri. No, swiping left doesn’t mean you hate them in real life.”
The technology generation gap creates comedy gold. Your poem could share the questions that leave you speechless, like “Do I need to plug in my wireless mouse?” or “Is Google closed on weekends?”
28. Exercise Equipment as Clothes Hangers
Write a poem about the exercise bike that’s become your most expensive clothes rack. The guilt! The good intentions! The pants that still don’t fit!
Home exercise equipment often has a short active life before retirement. Your poem might track the journey from excited purchase to daily use to occasional use to permanent laundry storage, all while the machine silently judges your ice cream habit.
29. The Shopping List You Left at Home
Craft a poem about trying to remember what was on your shopping list that’s sitting on your kitchen counter while you stand confused in the grocery store.
The forgotten list leads to strange purchases and missed essentials. Your poem could describe your attempts to recreate the list from memory, buying everything except the one thing you actually went to the store for.
30. Accidentally Liking Old Social Media Posts
Write about the horror of accidentally liking someone’s post from seven years ago while doing some late-night stalking. The panic! The shame! The quick unlike that you hope they won’t notice!
Social media snooping gone wrong creates instant panic. Your poem might capture that moment of cold fear when you realize what your thumb has done, and the mental calculations of whether they got a notification and what excuse you could possibly make.
Wrapping Up
Who knew poetry could be this fun? When you write about the weird stuff that happens every day instead of boring old roses and sunsets, you end up with poems that make people laugh. And making someone laugh is way better than making them cry!
So grab a pen and start writing about your smelly gym socks or the weird noise your stomach makes in quiet rooms. The sillier the subject, the better the poem might be! And hey, even if your poem stinks worse than those gym socks, at least you’ll have fun making it.