Here is a poem wot I wrote as a valentine for my husband:
TO BE THE BEST
If you were an ice cream, you?d be a chocolate chip.
If you were a lollipop, you?d be a sherbet dip.
If you were a love-poem, you?d be a Shakespeare sonnet.
If you were a hat you?d be a massive Easter bonnet.
If you were an animal, you?d be a roaring lion.
If you were a shirt, you?d be a pink and green Hawaiian.
If you were a battle you would be my Armageddon.
If you were a weight you would most certainly be leaden.
If you were a disliked day you?d probably be Monday.
If you were a murderer you?d likely be Ted Bundy.
If you were a skin complaint you might be dermatitis.
If you were a dancing saint I think you?d be St Vitus.
If you were a steroid, then you?d be an anabolic.
If you were a drinker you would be an alcoholic.
If you were influenza you?d make sure to be pandemic.
If you were a fungus you?d work hard to be systemic.
If you were a crushing snake you?d be a boa constrictor.
If you were an earthquake you?d go off the end of Richter.
I?m pleased to note my suppositions have no factuality.
You?re a husband and a father, and that?s the actuality.
But just as with these fantasies, when you?re put to the test,
You show me every day you are the ultimate and BEST!
Now it's your turn. Write an amusing poem in rhyming couplets paying attention to finding unusual rhymes. You will find a rhyming dictionary and a thesaurus very helpful with this exercise.