Deadline: November 1, 2010
We all know that poets like Pam Ayres and Spike Milligan have a funny way of looking at life, but we wanted to know how you see it. In this competition, we asked you to have a go at writing your own funny poem. It could be about an everyday event, about getting older, a family holiday - in fact anything, as long as it had a humorous twist.
We received many fantastic poems, full of puns, punchlines and play on words.
Read some of the shortlisted funny poems here
Below you can read the first and second prize winners, and the three runners up.
The deadline for entries has passed.
Winning entries
First place
Rambling
by Rosemary Gregory
To keep me fit now I’ve retired, I’ll join a group for walking We’ll stroll around the countryside, admiring stuff and talking Observing nature in the raw. Oh! I can...
Second place
How Come?
by Geraldine Durrant
When the Good Lord ordained all the nations and sundered the East from the West, and created the Us’s and Thems’s, how come Thems’s got everything best? How come France...
Third place
My Hens
by David Patton
I bought some hens the other day. The blasted things just will not lay! I've tempted them with corn and seeds and tended all their chicky needs. I built some...
Third place
First day at school
by Caryl Reeves
They said I'd go to school one day, and now that day has come, I'm walking on my way there, holding hands with my mum. She's done my hair in...
Third place
Getting On
by Shelagh Wain
I may have bad knees and a bus pass, But I do try to keep up-to-date With iPods, and Facebook, and Twitter: It's the little things I really hate. Like...
