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
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Pleasures She WoreYour skin glows like a peach blossom,
Delicious as the smell of Lotus Flower,
In the purest hope of spring.
My yearning heart rises with yours,
Feminine is her voice and she leaps like a panther
By just...
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Categories:
word play, art, beauty, best friend,
Form: Prose Poetry
A form WYATTS ALEXANDRINEWyatt's alexandrine combined a rhyming fourteen
To introduce a novel verse,to the poetry scene;
...
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Categories:
poetry, word play,
Form: Alexandrine
S“S”
by Lanier Thomas
So,
Seeing
Successful
Salubrious
Senators sitting
Supposedly serving
Silently subordinate
Society, so sickening
Stomachs, several sundry sullen
Students spurned supporting such senators....
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Categories:
corruption, political, word play,
Form: Etheree
SONNET untraditionalnothing moves,
silence!
echos of voices,past
awake!
faces appear,then
...
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Categories:
word play,
Form: Sonnet
Simply Beyond HelpZounds!
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...
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Categories:
word play, dark, nonsense, surreal, word
Form: Free verse
Ear Rocky Hard Place
Mesopotamia
The Fertile Crescent once was
~ Then Babylon rose...
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Categories:
word play, flower, history, humor, word
Form: Senryu
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...
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Categories:
word play,
Form: Light Verse
heretically heretical
Categories:
humor, word play,
Form: Monoku
ObliviousShe 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...
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Categories:
word play, feelings, first love, i
Form: Free verse
My PainHey 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...
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Categories:
word play, emotions, encouraging, fate, love
Form: Free verse
word USP II munch
Categories:
art, sound, word play,
Form: Shape
word USP 1 pollock
Categories:
art, word play,
Form: Shape
-SUNDAY AFTERNOON at KALAHARIGerry leading the weekly walk*
if only giraffe's could talk
' I could show you where to see me'
& 'in which hide to be'...
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Categories:
africa, animal, word play,
Form: Rhyme
Neon VacancyMy 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...
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Categories:
word play, abuse, addiction, betrayal, boyfriend,
Form: Free verse
The SpoonerverseI’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...
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Categories:
humor, word play, words,
Form: Rhyme
Specific Types of Word Play Poems
Definition | What is Word Play in Poetry?