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Premium Member Homonyms
Homonyms are words with
Two meanings that we know,
Words like gross and match and light, 
And pile and park and row,

Your boat out deep into the...

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Categories: homonyms, 9th grade, humorous, poetry,
Form: Quatrain



Premium Member Welcome To the Feast
A hearty welcome to the feast.
I’m your host, the rhyming beast.
Great dishes I’ve prepared for you.
Please try each one on the menu.
Start out with the...

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Categories: homonyms, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Likeness Ssenekil: Part 1
*Image of Many Meanings by KWC.

Likeness ssenekiL: Part 1

(HOMONYMS: Homophones & Homographs)

He'll heal his heel.
They sow so they sew.
His aide aid with an ade.
You saw...

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© Hilo Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: homonyms, word play,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member Behind the Eternal Fringes
The unpopular 
express 
their popular strings
to the garrison, contained
within 
safe boundaries, there,
their thoughts 
pirouetting words 
hung, 
the black beetles 
shine 
like exotic 
fresh water 
pearls...

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Categories: homonyms, muse,
Form: Free verse
Homonym Poem
SPOT THE HOMONYMS 
For the Homonyms are full of spots!

We were young and wore black
During the war we were under attack
We wear bright clothes now
Where...

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Categories: homonyms, word play, words, write,
Form: I do not know?



Premium Member A Beautiful Sunny Day - Poetic Devices
1. Today, the weather feels like heaven's bliss!
        	
  2. The balmy breeze and beautiful soft blue
...

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Categories: homonyms, beautiful, day,
Form: Blank verse
Lexophile
I admit it. I’m a Lexophile.  I’m likely on some list!
If there’s a play on words somewhere, I really can’t resist.
A twist of phrase,...

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© Dean Wood  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: homonyms, humorous, word play,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member A Litany of Poetry Devices
The truthful liar mesmerized no one 
Even his most fervent followers fell short.
We watched his interchanges which seemed crazy,
And his bragging and grandiose plans abort.
His...

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Categories: homonyms, poems, poetess, poetry, poets,
Form: Free verse
Homophonium
They’re having their tea over there,
To have two cups too,
We’re going to wear our cloths, where?
I don’t really mean to be mean,
So tear your tear...

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Categories: homonyms, confusion,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member Heeling Mephistopheles
"Heeling Mephistopheles" 

murdering crows
flies in on the bow 
of a Stradivarius 

strange webs cleared
from the mind of 
Machiavellian insolence 

insisting life written 
by dancing fingers
pressing...

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Categories: homonyms, muse,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member What Are Words - a Florilegium Poem
What are words other than coffin nails be?
Who does it belong to when it rails me?
An empty vessel at best that bails thee.

Lend me your...

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Categories: homonyms, analogy, emotions, literature, metaphor,
Form: Other
Premium Member Stripped Down


"Stripped Down"

Stripped down
the external shed,
snakes aren’t what you think

stripped down 
the external shed,
skins hung on a beam 

overhead,
hanging souls 
and their fangs

penetrating

Stripped down,
you hear me...

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Categories: homonyms, light, mirror, muse,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member We Are Poems
WE ARE POEMS

We are poems by design, 
clever rhythmic sounding rhymes. 

Doing exactly what we do,
lengthy wit or wise Haiku.

Sometimes we are homonyms 
or beautiful...

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Categories: homonyms, poems, poetess, poets,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Brocken Spectre - a Florilegium Poem
The root word for religion is not kind – 
Latin verb that means to tie or to bind – 
as it tends to play tricks...

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Categories: homonyms, introspection, poetry, religion,
Form: Other
Write Me a Tyburn - Hic a Hic Tyburn
HIC, A HIC, TYBURN 
~~~~~~~~~~~


Windy,
Windy,
Whiney,
Winey.
A  day down a windy, windy road,
okay, me a whiney, winey toad!

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Homonyms: Windy - Blowing.  Windy - Meandering. ...

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Categories: homonyms, wind, wine,
Form: Tyburn

Book: Shattered Sighs