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Beatrix Macabre Is a Poetess BecauseMuttered the gothic maiden tattered blue dress hand out,
lachrymose tea pours in yes my dear there are no dark poets left,
they all died off now whose the best do throw some in to test?
Tee...
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Categories:
word play, career, character, dark, devotion,
Form: Bio
Raining in summerOn this majestic month of May,
The clouds have conspired with the sun in a mist of golden gray,
Like a toxic forbidden love that fights to stay,
Wishing to birth magic yet creating an agonizing flurry...
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Categories:
word play, cheer up, funny, may,
Form: Free verse
there are always a fewThere are always a few
Troublesome “tickl-ings “
Daringly darting
In somnambulant slumber
Shape shifting shadows
Mocking the moonlight
Creeping through the crevasses
Of literary limitation
Weeping with the whispering words
Subtlety suppressed by silence
Like mice they meander the mind
Seeking sustenance and satiation
Borrowed brown...
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Categories:
fun, word play, words,
Form: Alliteration
ABSTRACT POETICSABSTRACT POETICS
stored
images
conscious
of gaps
of rhetoric
& inspiration
of
instinctive
clichéd speech
inner
explanation
is evoked
resembles
&appeals to
to the ear
& then
to mould
at
a later
stage...
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Categories:
word play,
Form: Other
REALITY REVEALEDREALITY REVEALED *
dilemma
of
integrity
sensuality
conflicts
with curbed
desire
irony
in
self-effacement
ephemeral
& by chance
emotional
& dramatic
objective
an
influence
in academic notion
of the
unnoticed
omnipresent
to interpret
the unconscious
with
exhilarated
experience
where
architectonic
energies
of
indeterminate
shapes of
optical
multiplicity
enveloped
the
transparent
quickening
in the eyes
counterpoised
&
more endurable
the urge
&
the perception
of self
the desire
to
find satisfaction
in
organic beauty
a bestowal
of happiness
in
absurdities
embodying
unruly chaos
in the appearance
by accident
rather
than design
translated
into
manner
& style
always
inexpressible
an attempt
to understand
the austere
distortion
of an objective
consideration
&in particular
embodying
space
promote
a desire
&tendency
of
separation...
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Categories:
poetry, word play,
Form: Other
ABSTRACT DREAMSABSTRACT DREAM
An
abstracted blur
in flashbacks
of
yesteryear
caught
in a daydream
illusions
symbols
of childhood
coloured
filled swathes
of painterly
hues
A private
fantasy
in slow motion
suspended
in space
OPEN VERSE using spaces&breaks/no grammatical symbols /relying on 'the one breath limitation'/this intuitive cadence permits the 'reader' (reciter)to respond...
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Categories:
poetry, word play,
Form: Other
IMAGININGSIMAGININGS *
a mischievous
appearance
& disconcerting
expressions
undress the night
unconscious smiles
for
every dream
in
uprooted shadows
the day
does not
sleep
in great
weariness
where we
lock ourselves
hidden
softly
in its virtues
upon
in
a
field
of reflections
a
hand
to caresse
&
playful eyes
to
share
their clarity
lids
cast down
trace
temptations
lost
in
the dull
shadowed
skies
of leisure
whede innocence
facez
crippled
torment
in
laughter
wrinkles
OPEN VERSE using spaces&breaks/no grammatical symbols /relying on 'the one breath limitation'/this intuitive cadence permits the 'reader' (reciter)to respond in an interpretative-interplay unique** to the ' happening moment'
...
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Categories:
poetry, word play,
Form: Other
A Pealing Appellation
Pleasingly plump
Appealing appellation?
Por favor, senor ~
Propose its purgation
...
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Categories:
cute, farewell, word play,
Form: Alliteration
DIALECT RECITATION poetry reading
Aye 'ee is fierce and hale.
Four mile to work,across the vale;
No slommakin' slattern 'ee,
Okkard as an itching flea.
Eee'd fetch hosses to boss's yard,
Garmed with mud,as thick as lard,
Cla'holt of 'em wiv a rope,
On is own,allus...
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Categories:
word play,
Form: Bio
If only you knew
Categories:
mystery, word play,
Form: Questionku
A - an ABCDERIAN in A Word
Ah
be
come,
dearest
ever
faithful;
genuine,
honest,
in
joyous
kinship;
love
makes
not
only
paradise
quicken;
rest
safe
together
under
virtue's
wings;
X's*
your
Zion
...
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Categories:
word play,
Form: Abecedarian
A - ACROSTIC reversed
.
.
.
.
.God's poiemA *-
created foR
works of arT
in poems and pictureS.
.
.
....
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Categories:
word play,
Form: Acrostic
An Alliterative Pursuit Of A LoverAn Alliterative Pursuit Of A Lover
I will firstly frankly forwardly forthrightly fastidiously befriend you.
Then I will completely correctly courteously candidly chastely court you.
Then whencesoever I have wonderfully wackily warmly wooingly won wed you,
I’ll be free...
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Categories:
word play, desire, friendship, funny, lust,
Form: Alliteration
portmanteau most fowlportmanteau most fowl
conceived of a twisted mind—
turducken madness...
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Categories:
word play, food, humorous, imagination, word
Form: Senryu
This Poem's Overdue
Heavens make dew
Poor folks make do
Scooby’s name is -doo
Winnie's is Poo
...
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Categories:
word play, dog, humor, senses, word
Form: Monorhyme
Specific Types of Word Play Poems
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