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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S u Rr E a l i T y no B
Categories:
word play, words, writing,
Form: Imagism
S u Rr E a l i T y no A
Categories:
word play, words,
Form: Imagism
Definition of A PoetDefinition of a poet: I think a poet is...? A poet is...? A poet...is!...
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Categories:
word play, inspirational, poetry, poets, spiritual,
Form: Free verse
Demeritocracy
Sadly, everyone agrees
South Africans will reelect the ANC
No matter that it's a tragedy
~ it’s...
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Categories:
word play, africa, history, leadership, race,
Form: Couplet
You Pick 'em
Categories:
cat, confusion, word play,
Form: I do not know?
Smoke It Out
Categories:
word play, language, meaningful, relationship, word
Form: Monoku
Nacre's Embrace from Grain to Gleam: A Story of Quiet Revenge
Sand only looked to alight,
find some alone-time in the muck
no fuss was meant, it is only a space
as big as a grain taken, escaping its identical
brethren of billions on the sea floor.
Oyster only opened his...
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Categories:
word play, allusion, analogy, nature, word
Form: Free verse
Palindrome: Dumb-old-dork of ExportsMom spilled hot stew, wets a pal, lap short-shorts,
Dad yelled its hot, loop pool pop dive exhorts,
Mom says not that sort of hot,
Pip, spiced hot that's all it got?
Snot tons, "Jokes--Pip, we're exports, not Hogwarts?"
...
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Categories:
word play, confusion, father, friend, humorous,
Form: Limerick
trial and errortriple hating
triple agents
trip over
tripping tirades
(on a)
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Categories:
word play, humorous, society, surreal, word
Form: Alliteration
BabelDo you believe in faith,
enough to have faith in your belief?
Do you know enough to know
that you do not know sufficient?
Do you listen or merely talk?
Are there really several radios on the table -
all saying...
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Categories:
word play, conflict, emotions, language, mental
Form: Free verse
The ElegyCollaboration of poems
I have looked away books to read
then I realized I can't utter a word
All of them told I can't read
Then I chose to write
I smiled and smiled and I wrote
Come again to me...
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Categories:
word play, anxiety, war, water, western,
Form: Elegy
BeLlIcOsE bIlGe
Categories:
society, word play,
Form: Alliteration
Smokey Filled Speak Easy
In the dim-lit alley of the soul's bazaar,
Were jazz and jive spill from ajar,
We tap our feet, snap fingers, under stars,
And speak in verses, raw and without pause.
The city breathes, a living, pulsing beat,
Its heart...
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Categories:
word play, 6th grade, anxiety, celebration,
Form: Rhyme
Alphabet Soup a RiddleWithout further interruption a game, riddle.
Abyssal void manifests a skeleton and a cloak,
he has a sickle but is no reaper,
plays cards instead.
Dealt in a kraken with all sevens,
four on the board but the dice are...
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Categories:
word play, dark, deep, extended metaphor,
Form: Free verse
For this Strumpet, No Trumpet - Open Poetry 9 Contest
Donald ate beans to full capacitance
Added pitted prunes for extravagance
He courted the town strumpet
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Categories:
word play, humorous, music, romance, sound,
Form: Limerick
Specific Types of Word Play Poems
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