Best Word Play Poems
Below are the all-time best Word Play poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of word play poems written by PoetrySoup members
Summers Eve~Summer’s Eve ~
I am a woman!
I am proud-
I am everything you want.
Plus more
The adoring wife,
A beautiful mother,
A grandmother a granddaughter
A daughter, a...
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Categories:
word play, beautiful, grandmother, mothers day,
Form:
Free verse
Play On WordsWrite 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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Categories:
word play, words,
Form:
Quatrain
Separated By a Common Language"England and America are two countries separated by a common language."
...
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Categories:
word play, america, england, language, word
Form:
Rhyme
Poetry For Poets: I Own This- EditionWell hopefully you've read the last "Poetry for Poets", now here's the one I wanted to write, enjoy...
POETRY FOR POETS
(I own this- edition)
Poems
more organic...
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Categories:
word play, creation, metaphor, poems, poetry,
Form:
Free verse
PianoPorcelain keys create
Passionate sonatas
Pitched in dulcet notes...
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Categories:
music, poems, word play,
Form:
Pleiades
View From the Prism of 'Ism'socialism communism fascism despotism
buddhism catholicism hinduism zoroastrianism
territorialism colonialism imperialism ...
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Categories:
word play, satire, society, truth, word
Form:
Monorhyme
To Be Thrown Overboard SoonTwo scruffy pirates picked me up.
Intending to toss me overboard.
I weighed too much; they were struggling.
True.
They needed to lighten their load.
But I was not going...
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Categories:
fun, humorous, word play,
Form:
Light Verse
Tease For Two
"Tease for Two"
“Ein bisschen Zucker
mit Ihrer Sahne, Sir?“
German accent
smoky toned
she purred
Periwinkles suavely winked,
then played with his -
cufflinks
“Not now Schvee Tart”
he...
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Categories:
word play, adventure, humor, romance, word
Form:
Romanticism
Something More
“Something More”
Softly pastels spill
from lips where
crimson speaks the heart
time brushed its coarse
hands along the body
of my work
and like a voyeur
you watched
the romance...
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Categories:
muse, word play,
Form:
Narrative
Weather ForecastDecember 2017
Extremely high winds are forecast due to an influx of sprouts over Christmas . My New Year’s resolution to avoid chocolate is not the...
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Categories:
word play, humorous, life, weather, word
Form:
Narrative
Your Better EndYOUR BETTER END
To be
To stare
To contemplate
To risk
To dare
Once and again
To trust
To leap
A Jump of faith
To fall
To land
No one can say
To forgive
To forget
Or try again
To breathe
To...
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Categories:
word play,
Form:
Free verse
The Whistling HamletA whistling wheezing hamlet, whispering and emanating, tunes euphonic,
In a remote isolated valley, far-flung from the abode of the temporal,
Warbling quietly to whistle...
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Categories:
word play, community, earth, education, encouraging,
Form:
Alliteration
Trayvon BrownWalk with me,
Don't...SHOOT,
cuz I don't wanna die young,
I wanna grow old and have
a daughter or a son, or maybe both,
to live...
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Categories:
word play, black african american, community,
Form:
Rhyme
Thoughts On Mgk Eminem Diss, It's Just What I NoticedBeard looks weird,
that's a lyrical genius to be feared,
you wrote a 6 year song and got the facts wrong,
fired with the hair and safety still...
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Categories:
word play, hip hop, humorous, rap,
Form:
Rhyme
One Step At a Timeadventure, growing up, hip hop, repetition, word play
A ONE STEP AT A TIME ©
Life is but a hopscotch path
Players vying for placement
Rules to follow aground
Tokens...
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Categories:
word play, adventure, growing up, hip
Form:
Verse
Spoonerism Poetry: She's Too TittyShe’s too titty to be a preacher.
She can’t even bead a rook.
A rental deceptionist? Maybe.
At my teeth she once look a took.
As a wean...
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Categories:
parody, word play,
Form:
Quatrain
Rejected12/21/19
Not going to pretend it
I've been feeling rejected
And disrespected
Nothing I said and did
Was effective
Time I take a sedative
Or maybe 10 of them
Was fine one minute...
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Categories:
word play, dark, how i feel,
Form:
Rhyme
Common SenseNow I’m thinking, while sitting on a chair,
There is something that I would like to share
I fear my mind is dense
Can’t make out common sense
How...
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Categories:
word play,
Form:
Limerick
Alchemy
How do you change a lie into the truth?
Alchemy, dear children ...
this is how it's done, using unverifiable proof
First, you take a sick, dirty lie,
and...
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Categories:
word play, corruption, dark, psychological, word
Form:
Dramatic Verse
Never SurrenderI'm a grit teeth beginner breaking out the cage,
growing strong and fitter with wit coming of age,
squeezing letters out of lemons got me in a...
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Categories:
word play, anxiety, character, confidence, conflict,
Form:
Rhyme
Before YouEach day was a gift
without you.
Every sunrise breathtaking
without you.
Music moved me
without you.
But ever since our first night,
nothing is as beautiful ...
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Categories:
word play, desire, i miss you,
Form:
I do not know?
Rhyme GodEnter the Everest that devastates
as he never ever rests and demonstrates
his quick wit picnic of traits that place
with lickety split flicks on...
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Categories:
slam, smart, word play,
Form:
Rhyme
Sickening7/9/20
"Sickening"
This is sickening
And quickening
Not at all, what I was envisioning
Nobody listening
Most chickening
Fidgeting
And limiting
Themselves to the point of being crippling
The effects rippling
And tripling
On top of it,...
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Categories:
word play, dark, deep, poetry, rap,
Form:
Rhyme
A Plate of DisorderA Plate of Disorder
Are you ready to Disorder Sir?
What can I tempt you for a starter,
May I recommend the Turmoil Soup?
Garnished with Havoc Green Tartar.
For...
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Categories:
word play, anger, confusion, food, mental
Form:
Rhyme
A Man From DuluthThere once was a man from Duluth
whose habit was spinning the truth.
He had told the same tale
(every day without fail;
'twas getting quite long in the...
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Categories:
drink, humor, word play,
Form:
Limerick