There is modern light verse I like - Wendy Cope, for instance, and the work on the Sphere - but my favorite light versifiers are a century old or more: Hilaire Belloc, Max Beerbohm, Lewis Carroll, W.S. Gilbert. This is very likely a matter of what I expect to find in light verse, and therein lies my answer to the question. It's also probably a matter of what I know and return to; I am more adventurous in other reading.
Max Beerbohm wrote this:
"In London, at the Bodley Head; New York, Charles Scribner's Sons."
This little line, when nicely read, iambically runs.
Cheers,
John
Oh - my own funny poems I do like, but I'd hesitate to call them light verse.
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