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Word Play Poems | Examples of Word Play Poetry

Word Play Poems - Examples of all types of word play poetry to share and read. This list of new poems is composed of the works of modern poets on PoetrySoup. Read short, long, best, and famous poem examples for word play.
Premium Member Simply Beyond Help
Zounds! longing for a merciful descent into the terminal ground where smoky eyes semi-watch streams of semi-(dis)information exhaled from smoking brains on a mission to search & deconstruct ticking clocks taunt timely bombs lost in purple blobs of orange haze awaiting purging deluges sprinkled with white bolts of blinding hell the raving raven's feathers flicker while flippant tentacles grope...Read the rest...
Categories: word play, dark, nonsense, surreal, word
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Ear Rocky Hard Place
Mesopotamia The Fertile Crescent once was ~ Then Babylon rose...Read the rest...
Categories: word play, flower, history, humor, word
Form: Senryu
Premium Member Play on Words
English words that end in “let” are called diminutives – did you forget? All were once of larger size but were easily diminutized by the suffix “let” appended where the word naturally ended. (Think of it like a tail tacked to...Read the rest...
Categories: word play,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member heretically heretical
Heretically speaking …I am at odds with myself ...Read the rest...
Categories: humor, word play,
Form: Monoku
Oblivious
She is oblivious to the fact That she can make my mind Tedious Which makes me furious But imagining her smiling upon Makes my heart troubled as ocean On a stromy night...Read the rest...
Categories: word play, feelings, first love, i
Form: Free verse



My Pain
Hey dear friend! In the truth you know, that I've shared with you. Don't you dare lie, and tell me that you understand my pain. Course truthfully, YOU DON'T!!! Please tell me it's gonna be okay, NOT "I know how you...Read the rest...
Categories: word play, emotions, encouraging, fate, love
Form: Free verse
Premium Member word USP II munch
. . . . scream* . . ...Read the rest...
Categories: art, sound, word play,
Form: Shape
Premium Member word USP 1 pollock
. . . . . . . . . . . . . d r ...Read the rest...
Categories: art, word play,
Form: Shape
Premium Member -SUNDAY AFTERNOON at KALAHARI
Gerry leading the weekly walk* if only giraffe's could talk ' I could show you where to see me' & 'in which hide to be'...Read the rest...
Categories: africa, animal, word play,
Form: Rhyme
Neon Vacancy
My lips the vacancy sign, my heart the hotel You ran up room service again. left burn marks on the mattress. Rude to the staff Yet you seem to always be welcomed back With my lips flashing like a neon vacancy...Read the rest...
Categories: word play, abuse, addiction, betrayal, boyfriend,
Form: Free verse
The Spoonerverse
I’m wrying to trite poetry, I’m doing it all the day, Wrying to get the turds out, To must jean what I say. Rumtimes the syme hust jappens, Other wimes it’s tierd, And the jeaning is all mumbled, Fexactly as I eared. So...Read the rest...
Categories: humor, word play, words,
Form: Rhyme
Restless Nights
My nights are often restless, My dreams are often broken. The tremors are often heard, Within words not often spoken. I'm tossed about in silent motion, Until I'm cocooned within the covers. The darkness holds me tighter, Than the embrace...Read the rest...
Categories: word play, christian, deep, how i
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Gasless Beans
Flackmoth wishes his love of legumes was not accompanied by foul fumes. Not having to release a whiff of flatulence would prevent incurring that other offense and social stigma, the “stinkma.” ...Read the rest...
Categories: word play,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member SURREALITY
SURREALITY the secret dread.. reopened a chance happening.. the discovery alienates, the spell ...Read the rest...
Categories: surreal, word play,
Form: Other
Premium Member If all there is---is
If all there is …is now And time but an illusion Wondering where it went Causes me confusion If there’s been no then Is it all Zen And the end is Where it will begin Is every sunrise The same one Or even worse There wasn’t...Read the rest...
Categories: fun, time, word play,
Form: Rhyme

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