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Best Word Play Poems

Below are the all-time best Word Play poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of word play poems written by PoetrySoup members


Premium Member Summers Eve
~Summer’s Eve ~


I am a woman!
I am proud-

I am everything you want. 
Plus more
The adoring wife,
A beautiful mother, 
A grandmother a granddaughter 
A daughter, a...

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Categories: word play, beautiful, grandmother, mothers day,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Separated By a Common Language
"England and America are two countries separated by a common language." 
                ...

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© John Watt  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: word play, america, england, language, word
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Play On Words
Write here, right now. Write now, right here!
Capture the moment while it's near 
and seize the day. You now know how: 
write now, right here;...

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© John Watt  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: word play, words,
Form: Quatrain

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry



Poetry For Poets: I Own This- Edition
Well hopefully you've read the last "Poetry for Poets", now here's the one I wanted to write, enjoy...

POETRY FOR POETS 
(I own this- edition)

Poems
more organic...

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Categories: word play, creation, metaphor, poems, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Piano
Porcelain keys create
         Passionate sonatas
         Pitched in dulcet notes...

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Categories: music, poems, word play,
Form: Pleiades
Premium Member View From the Prism of 'Ism'
socialism  communism  fascism   despotism
  buddhism  catholicism  hinduism  zoroastrianism  
territorialism  colonialism   imperialism  ...

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Categories: word play, satire, society, truth, word
Form: Monorhyme



Premium Member To Be Thrown Overboard Soon
Two scruffy pirates picked me up.
Intending to toss me overboard.
I weighed too much; they were struggling.
True.
They needed to lighten their load.
But I was not going...

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Categories: fun, humorous, word play,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member Tease For Two
"Tease for Two"



“Ein bisschen Zucker 
mit Ihrer Sahne, Sir?“

German accent 
smoky toned 
she purred

Periwinkles suavely winked, 
then played with his -

cufflinks

“Not now Schvee Tart” 
he...

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Categories: word play, adventure, humor, romance, word
Form: Romanticism
Premium Member Something More
“Something More” 

Softly pastels spill
from lips where
crimson speaks the heart

time brushed its coarse
hands along the body 
of my work 

and like a voyeur
you watched
the romance...

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Categories: muse, word play,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Writing Poetry
Poems may be simple, try writing a rhyme,
add some images to make it sublime.
Simple words may make meaningful phrases,
difficult words can turn into mazes.

You could...

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© Bill Baker  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: word play, education, feelings, poems, poetry,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Weather Forecast
December 2017

Extremely high winds are forecast due to an influx of sprouts over Christmas . My New Year’s resolution to avoid chocolate is not the...

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Categories: word play, humorous, life, weather, word
Form: Narrative
Your Better End
YOUR BETTER END

To be
To stare
To contemplate
To risk
To dare
Once and again
To trust
To leap
A Jump of faith
To fall
To land
No one can say
To forgive
To forget
Or try again
To breathe
To...

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Categories: word play,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Paper Kingdom
Immigrants why do you come?
Whether you are spiritual or mathematical etc. This is our Karma:

Isacc Newton’s 3rd Law
For every action, there is an equal and...

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© I Am Anaya  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: word play, how i feel, political,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Whistling Hamlet
A whistling wheezing hamlet, whispering and emanating, tunes euphonic, 
In a remote isolated valley, far-flung from the abode of the temporal, 
Warbling quietly to whistle...

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Categories: word play, community, earth, education, encouraging,
Form: Alliteration
Thoughts On Mgk Eminem Diss, It's Just What I Noticed
Beard looks weird,
that's a lyrical genius to be feared,
you wrote a 6 year song and got the facts wrong,
fired with the hair and safety still...

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© Nick Trim  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: word play, hip hop, humorous, rap,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Reflection on the Important Things