When most people think of love poems, they think of serious and soulful expressions of passion. Long sonnets by Shakespeare or romantic poems by Browning and Lord Byron are the norm for love poetry. However, Funny Poems can be good for a laugh. They may not be romantic, but they do give your friends something to enjoy.

Some of the best Funny Poems are limericks. Limericks started in Ireland and follow a standard form of five lines and a rhyme scheme of aabba.

Limericks are fairly easy to write if you can rhyme well, so you might try writing a limerick yourself that includes the name of your friend or loved one. This is a good way to make a Funny Poem that is personalized.

Here are some tips on how to write Funny Poems:

Find a set of words that rhyme, these could be the tags your rhyme, for example if your sentence ends with poke, the words – coke, choke, or even folk would rhyme. Find the one that makes most sense and sounds funny and end the next sentence of your Funny Poem with it.

If a single syllable letter will not rhyme, find one has two syllables – for example revoke, would be a perfect fit.

You could use some very good online dictionaries to help you find the right rhyming word for your Funny Poems. Remember to go with the sound, rather than spelling.

Set a certain meter, this makes the Funny Poems truly interesting. It is easy to read and even say the rhyme if it said at a particular speed.

Set up a simple story around your Funny Poems. The poem would have more meaning around this. Many write very meaningful nonsense rhymes.

Of course, unless you are a serious poet, Funny Poems work, they can make you popular in parties. You seem clever and witty.

It was Eddison or Einstein, or some other genius whose name begins with an 'e' who said genius is one per cent inspiration and 99 per cent perspiration. Of course none of them wrote poetry. Even less Funny Poems. At times the inspiration packs its bags and goes on holiday, and all that is left is perspiration.

So I would love to compel your sympathy by explaining how how I have agonized over each golden word of this poem, cried over every beautiful phrase, and burrowed for the perfect rhyme, rhythm and meaning. How much know-how has gone into the use of the tools of the trade of word smith. How many cups of coffee have have been my only companion on sleepless nights.

I'd love to, but I can't! Sometimes, writing Funny Poems, the words just fall into place, seemingly wandering in off the highway of ideas as though looking for a seat in the shade to take the weight off their feet. (And I don't drink coffee either!) That seems to apply a lot to my dotty ditties.