Long Word play Poems
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Limericks
Limericks
by Michael R. Burch
Clyde Lied!
by Michael R. Burch
There once was a mockingbird, Clyde,
who bragged of his prowess, but lied.
To his new wife he sighed,
"When again, gentle bride?"
"Nevermore!" bright-eyed Raven replied.
The Platypus
by Michael R. Burch
The platypus,...
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Categories:
word play, giggle, light, nonsense, parody, silly, smile, word
Form:
Limerick
Epigrams V
Epigrams
Autumn Conundrum
by Michael R. Burch
It’s not that every leaf must finally fall,
it’s just that we can never catch them all.
Piercing the Shell
by Michael R. Burch
If we strip away all the accouterments of war,
perhaps we'll discover...
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Categories:
giggle, humor, humorous, irony, literature, word play,
Form:
Epigram
Week 3 - Brian's Poet of Note - 'Richard Wilbur Part 1'
Imitation! Creative Compliment, Lacking in Originality, or Plagiarism?
This week takes me back to college days. I was taking a graduate course (as a Physics major) in 'Modern Poets' at the University of...
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Categories:
word play, love, poetry, poets, , Lullaby,
Form:
Free verse
Tozzath
Pellucid pachyderms wade across
the purpling River Manjees
and Tozzath watches from the bank,
the seat of his maroon pantaloons soaked with mud,
his nostrils flaring with the fragrance of ombadalias,
whose lacey petals flutter
like the wings of long-dead...
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Categories:
death, fantasy, girl, magic, word play,
Form:
Free verse
Social Privy
justice
What does this vastly misunderstood word mean to you?
Too what ends?
May we seek?
Who(m) may guide us?
Endless deliberation (spiss spiss spiss)
Debated and glorified by us all
Beloved; instilled among (a) core...
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Categories:
word play, absence, abuse, addiction, adventure, allusion, analogy, anxiety,
Form:
Free verse
A Gardening Expose
With these lines I’ll relate an intriguing tale of dubious accuracy
For I Hope to unveil sordid affairs of more than one conspiracy!
Be warned, that though you might be disturbed by the facts I relate?
They are...
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Categories:
garden, word play,
Form:
Rhyme
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 a ewe eat a yew.
I ate on the ait eight...
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Categories:
word play,
Form:
I do not know?
Everybody, Let's Get a Move On By Having Fun At the University
K: I'm so not sorry for what I've done
I was in a university, having so much fun
In a university in this splendid city,
J & K: But you don't see me
You don't see me
Everybody, let's get...
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Categories:
emotions, feelings, happiness, hope, joy, word play,
Form:
Lyric
Unquotable Quotes: L 50 - Tongue-Teasing Epigrams
UNQUOTABLE QUOTES: L (50) - Tongue-Teasers
The « early bird catches the worm » only because the worm has not woken up yet.
« I don’t love you ! I hated your father ! » - must...
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Categories:
art, humor, irony, women, word play,
Form:
Epigram
Translation of Eric Mottram's Time Sight Unseen, Part Two By T Wignesan
Translation of Eric Mottram’s TIME SIGHT UNSEEN, Part Two by T. Wignesan
"Instead of an item in a school of rhetoric, the poem could have variety of articulations, continuity and discontinuity, sentence and parataxis, and an...
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Categories:
art, creation, literature, philosophy, word play, writing,
Form:
Free verse
Mad About Towns
When we set out on a road trip
We didn’t stick to the old script
And were gladly amazed
And rarely unfazed
Hitting strange towns though some were skipped
We started from Thatsnot, OK
Which was more or less ok
But then...
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Categories:
humorous, travel, word play,
Form:
Limerick
The Reading of Villon Poems At West Berlin's Free University During the 1957-58 Winter Semester
The reading of Villon poems at West Berlin’s Free University, Winter Semester 1957-58
...
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Categories:
word play, inspirational, passion, poetry, poets, remembrance day, surreal,
Form:
Free verse
I’m just Saying
So yall, here are some sayings. Some are from wayyyy back in the day, I’m talking ‘bout the 70’s up to current, and they all have meanings. Many of you may have heard them and...
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Categories:
word play, culture, education, environment, language, life, people, word
Form:
Narrative
Translation of Eric Mottram's 1922 Section 1 In Earth Raids 1976 By T Wignesan
Translation of Eric Mottram’s 1922 Section 1 by T. Wignesan
for David Attoe
Notre devise pourrait être: ‘que nous nous ne soyons pas envoûtés’
Wittgenstein in Zettel
laissez pendre la graisse sans cou
où la tête...
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Categories:
america, culture, earth, word play, , literature,
Form:
Free verse
Ah Satisfactorily Succumbing Into Salubrious Sleep
Ah...Satisfactorily Succumbing Into Salubrious Sleep
Aye sandman, I surrender to yar supreme governance
surreal spectacular soiree gifts subconscious sphere
soothing (analogous to natural palliative), ah...REM
member nought, asper exquisite entertaining cerebral
kaleidoscope replete with nonpareil visual trappings
aesthetically tantalizing unforgettable..., but...
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Categories:
word play, 12th grade, adventure, appreciation, celebration, dance, devotion,
Form:
Free verse
When It Struck 12
It will be wintertime very soon
Here comes the evening moon
Gradually, we'll be shining like the sun
Eventually, you and I will be made as one
Tick Tock Tick Tock
The clock is taunting me...
Tock tick tock tick
The time...
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Categories:
angst, confusion, emotions, time, winter, word play,
Form:
Free verse
Unquotable Quotes: Poets - Xxxvi
Unquotable quotes: Poets, Poetasters and Platos – XXXVI
For James McAuley – in remembrance of a memorable week in Cardiff 1965
The greatest poet ever is NOT Homer, Lao Tse, Ovid,...
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Categories:
creation, poetry, poets, word play, words, writing,
Form:
Epigram
Likeness Ssenekil: Part 2
*Image of Many Meanings by KWC.
Likeness ssenekiL: Part 2
(HOMONYMS: Homophones & Homographs)
The batter's foul ball killed a fowl that later caused a foul odor.
After painting the room red, he then redd it up and read...
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Categories:
word play,
Form:
I do not know?
The Unlit Flame At Blue Feather's Cross Roads
"The Unlit Flame at Blue Feather’s Cross Roads"
Words these days are seldom Red
like drops of lifeless blood falling cold on a hot frying pan,
sentences are scattered, stuck in Go Nowhereland,
semi-solid, immovable coagulating gelatinous, turning dark...
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Categories:
word play, angel, muse, mystery, romance, sensual, symbolism, word
Form:
Romanticism
A Ghetto Conversation
Hey bruh,
haven’t you heard,
ain’t you read the news?
The White House is gonna eradicate
the fear infested inner city blues
That Trump fella says,
he’s got his poison pen ready to use
He says black folks got nothing...
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Categories:
culture, prejudice, truth, word play,
Form:
Verse
Dotting I's and Crossing T's
I come from a family of high dots ...
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Categories:
appreciation, conflict, feelings, humor, word play, words,
Form:
Light Verse
Dandylion
"Dandylion"
The guy was a
Dandylion
there was
no denying it
full of promises
and making wishes
residing over
this new world
poetically
speaking, he
shone like
the Sun
he sat on his throne
for all to see
the mane man
roaring non-garrulous
declaring
to...
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Categories:
dream, humor, muse, word play,
Form:
Narrative
Unquotable Quotes: Li 51 - Tongue-Teasing Epigrams
UNQUOTABLE QUOTES: LI - Tongue-Teasers
If you want to give someone a « taste of his own medicine", you must first obtain sufficient quantities of the same medicine in the market, and if it’s out-of-stock -...
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Categories:
corruption, judgement, planet, poetry, science, word play,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
A Nautical Truth - Water Is Magnetic
This is for all those of an ocean-going mind who, for no apparent reason, are compelled down to the seas again.
Throughout history, water, in all its forms, has held an attraction to humanity. Whether it...
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Categories:
word play, how i feel, humor, moon, perspective, sea,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
By the Numbers
Everybody love to say they’re number one,
but it takes two
to make beautiful music,
so we’re told
Pitch perfect
That one favorite song two lovers have,
it never gets old
After ninety nine repeats,
it sounds one zero zero multiple...
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Categories:
love, metaphor, romantic, word play,
Form:
Romanticism