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Best Play On Words Poems

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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: play on words, word play, words,
Form: Quatrain



Premium Member I Write Poetry
I play with words, but I’m not sure why I write poetry.
One day I just felt the need to try! I write poetry!

It fills my...

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Categories: play on words, poetry,
Form: Ghazal
Premium Member The Universe of Creativity, the Poet, and the Poem
Poetic lines
plucked out of the universe of creativity
a structure perhaps in place.

The poet's mind
a receptor
like a television receiving radio waves.

A message and a form emerges...

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Categories: play on words, poems,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Wordsmith


He welds and melts, pours and molds
In his "Conversations with My Soul"
He smooths the rough steel of syllables
Into a "Portrait" graced by his "Play on...

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Categories: play on words, appreciation, friendship, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Poet Stamp 2011
This is for you, Mystic Rose,
The closest cyber encounter family tree, my spree
Harry Horsman, Sara K, summer's gone, let's haiku and play.
Achoo contest, butterflies, Parise...

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Categories: play on words, happiness,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Lord Harry's Front
Old Lord Harry put up a good front.
He hid socks in his pants as a stunt.         ...

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Categories: play on words, funny, gender,
Form: Limerick
Record Player
I'll be honest, 
I gave into anger,
I gave him what he desired,
But I played the roll of the looking glass,
Only to realize, he was blind.

Oh...

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Categories: play on words, anti bullying,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Hummerous Life
In times like this it’s pertinent to stroke the longest cord
for hummer is impertinent and seldom brings discord.
Each slippery politician who runs yelling, “Come on...

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Categories: play on words, funny, political, satire,
Form: Burlesque
Cliche Confusion
They say "money makes the world go round" I really don't understand 
I thought it was a magnetic field not something made by man 

They...

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Categories: play on words, funnyheart, heart,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Birthday Wishes, Without Loving Family Memories Life Is Devoid
Without Loving Memories Life Is Devoid

So your pretty face turned forty today
My how sweet time races far away
Give yourself a gift of love this way
and...

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Categories: play on words, appreciation, beauty, birthday, blessing,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Bio Modified: Romantic Realist
Romantic
teacher, writer, fitness enthusiast and self-proclaimed movie critic
who loves family, friends, and food,
I play with words, explore interesting/controversial topics and celebrate life;
feel grounded in my...

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Categories: play on words, character,
Form: Bio
Premium Member All In a Day
shaped like a boat,
          a sock peeked out,
        down...

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Categories: play on words, humor, military,
Form: Free verse
Amazing Poetry
Writing poetry is a part of my life, 
Rhythm and rhyme create symphony in my mind, 
Be it pleasure or pain, challenges or strife, 
In...

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Categories: play on words, poetry, writing,
Form: Pantoum
Premium Member Meeting
Allow good times to come around:
Love knows the way to greet your heart,
Open to chimes that bless your grounds;
Voice profound play in words of art,
Echo...

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Categories: play on words, allusion,
Form: Sonnet
Roast of An Unnamed Poet
He's packin' magic Viagra
Muse infused grooves set the mood
grab ya' and stab ya' 
we're opposites 
still we speak the same language 
teach and preach truth
every...

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Categories: play on words, allegory, history, rap, slam,
Form: Ode

Book: Shattered Sighs