Absurdity

• Make everyday things into something completely unlikely, even impossible. Imagine a cake your sister baked, but instead of it being soft and delicious, it’s so hard that knives bend and break when people try to cut it, or some spilled milk where the pool of liquid keeps growing and growing, no matter how people try to mop it up, until it threatens to flood the town or city. Exaggerate the ordinary and you’ve created a bizarre, humorous situation that people can still understand.
  
  

Rhymes

• Use unexpected rhyming words to create a funny effect, such as “icicle” and “bicycle”; it takes people off guard and surprises them, and you can use that to create odd, funny images that leave people giggling. Use a rhyming dictionary for ideas on rhyming words. Choose the unexpected to create imagines that will stick in the mind and make curious pictures.
  
  

Exaggeration

• The more you exaggerate things in a poem, the funnier it can become. Make your anthill the size of the Empire State Building, for example; it’s something people can see in their minds, and it’s so ridiculous that it becomes funny. Exaggerate the way someone moves -- it can be as fast as the wind or as slow as a slug -- and use that to create a humorous effect in your poem. Make a voice so loud that it can be heard in other countries or even on other planets, for instance, to give a real comic effect in the poem.
  
  

Funny Situations

• Use funny situations as the basis for your poem, something like finding a fly in your soup, and how you’d react -- maybe looking at it from the fly’s point of view, which turns the situation on its head and can make it funnier. Make the object of your poem seem human, with feelings, as this lets people relate to it. You can use it to emphasize the humorous aspect (such as describing the events that ended up with the fly in the soup in the example above).