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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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
Restless NightsMy 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...
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Categories:
word play, christian, deep, how i
Form: Rhyme
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.”
...
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Categories:
word play,
Form: Light Verse
SURREALITYSURREALITY
the secret
dread..
reopened
a
chance
happening..
the discovery
alienates,
the spell
...
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Categories:
surreal, word play,
Form: Other
If all there is---isIf 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...
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Categories:
fun, time, word play,
Form: Rhyme
Specific Types of Word Play Poems
Definition | What is Word Play in Poetry?