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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


Premium Member 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



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: word play, words,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Separated By a Common Language
"England and America are two countries separated by a common language." 
                ...

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© John Watt  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: word play, america, england, language, word
Form: Rhyme
Poetry For Poets: I Own This- Edition
Well 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
Premium Member Piano
Porcelain keys create
         Passionate sonatas
         Pitched in dulcet notes...

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Categories: music, poems, word play,
Form: Pleiades



Premium Member 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
Premium Member To Be Thrown Overboard Soon
Two 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
Premium Member 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
Premium Member 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
Premium Member Weather Forecast
December 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 End
YOUR 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
Premium Member The Whistling Hamlet
A 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 Brown
Walk 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 Noticed
Beard 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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© Nick Trim  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: word play, hip hop, humorous, rap,
Form: Rhyme
One Step At a Time
adventure, 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
Premium Member Spoonerism Poetry: She's Too Titty
She’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
Rejected
12/21/19


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
Premium Member Common Sense
Now 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 Surrender
I'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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© Nick Trim  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: word play, anxiety, character, confidence, conflict,
Form: Rhyme
Before You
Each 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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© Tom Pen  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: word play, desire, i miss you,
Form: I do not know?
Rhyme God
Enter 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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© Nick Trim  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: slam, smart, word play,
Form: Rhyme
Sickening
7/9/20
"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 Disorder
A 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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© Kevin Shaw  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: word play, anger, confusion, food, mental
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member A Man From Duluth
There 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