In Sidney, too, we find a cry for simplicity housed within an elaborate construction: an exactly rhymed sonnet in iambic hexameter. Even as his Muse’s words reproach him, they respect and embrace the form’s prosodic requirements. Keep it simple, the poem says explicitly. Keep it complex, the poem says implicitly. Of all the funny poems on this list, this is one of the lovely and memorable. Milne takes the reader into the world of Christopher Robin. At the touch of you, As if you were an archer with your swift hand at the bow, The arrows of delight shot through my body. You were spring, And I the edge of a cliff, And a shining waterfall rushed over me.” — “ At the Touch of You” by Witter Bynner Body, remember not only how much you were loved, not only the beds on which you lay, but also those desires for you that glowed plainly in the eyes, and trembled in the voice—and some chance obstacle made futile. Now that all of them belong to the past, it almost seems as if you had yielded to those desires—how they glowed, remember, in the eyes gazing at you; how they trembled in the voice, for you, remember, body.” — “ Body Remember” by Constantine Cavafy

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Now We Are Six’is a funny, short poem. It is told from the perspective of a young child who takes the reader through the last years of their life. A selection of funny rude and dirty poems which range from the mildly titillating to the frankly obscene. Some of the poems are sexual, anatomical or scatological in nature, or on occasion all three. The poems are not suitable for miners, street sweepers or submariners, nor indeed for left-wing Guardian reading militant feminists. Rude Poems The Funeral Blues writer’s influence was debated throughout his life among early twentieth century literary types in his native England, especially in the shadow of other poetic giants like T.S. Eliot. But the New York School of poets, including John Ashbery, later embraced him. In this section from his poem Babies in Their Mothers’ Arms , he writes about, ahem, "self-love": Poets have long been using their poems to aid their passionate pursuits. In the first century BC, Catullus wrote his lyrics to Lesbia, pleading with her to ignore the gossip of old men and instead share thousands of kisses, so many that they lose count:

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Why this clinging so fervently to indirection, to doublespeak, to the sort of wordplay that seems to undermine the clarity and power of every assertion? One is tempted to answer, That’s just the way poets are, and leave it at that. Or: They enjoy making things difficult. Or: They’re drunk on their own voices.

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Written in 1948, this poem was enough to make mothers blush and fathers grumble in disapproval. W.H. Auden takes his time to vividly describe a sexual encounter between two young adults on a hot summer’s day.

Here, too, is a story. The deceased have come to appreciate that death is a trifling matter. Grown clear-sighted with time, they now recognize that life’s ultimate rewards are few and fleeting. But they once felt otherwise, wholeheartedly. Very few people in this world will understand why this hit me so hard, but I am of the firm and unwavering belief that anyone who sells drugs should be tried and convicted for murder most foul first degree no reprieve. This twenty-two-word poem by Megan Falley doesn’t play around. Falley describes the first sexual encounter between two lovers and a resulting realization.