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Play Poems - Poems about Play

Premium Member Games People Play
she plays scenarios in her head till she can’t distinguish shades from fact or fiction it started out all innocent at first she didn’t sense the danger she let her thoughts play drift and skip ahead of herself like an untended garden the weeds soon taking over she spirals down a private rabbit hole and plays such games not meant for children the type with hidden...

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Categories: play, anxiety, emotions, fantasy, fear,
Form: Free verse
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Categories: play, art, humor, riddle, word
Form: Light Verse



Worm on the Berm
There’s a worm on the berm But I cannot confirm, Without seeing it squirm, If it’s dead. Or perhaps it’s infirm From a rare type of germ Which affects it long-term And will spread. Either way, it’s absurd To think twice, for a bird, With its appetite spurred, Will be led To the place this occurred And to which I referred Where that bird, undeterred, Will be fed. I won’t mention...

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Categories: word play,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Doing
We do things we love Do things we hate -- One, for affection: and the other, for fiend necessity, like~ executions and wars… Maybe better, not to confound the two – maybe better, more and less we do?!...

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Categories: play, forgiveness, hate, humanity, introspection,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Summertide Pairings
cinnabar and cinnamon strawberries and cherries apricots and luscious mango windchimes and crystals hummingbirds and butterflies sailboats and sunsets summer nights and nuptials ...

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Categories: play, appreciation, fruit, fun, summer,
Form: Free verse



Be my wife
My heart lies drowned in its own pool of blood— Let your love secure me from life’s flood. Let it come to my rescue from tonight; From my life, sweetness has just taken flight. My flower vase has long remained unfilled; All my heart’s desires stay unfulfilled. Let not your soothing care depart my life— Please save my soul—say yes, become my...

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Categories: play, care, emotions, feelings, i
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member my word of choice
lickety-split is my word of choice loving the rare 1863 buffalo nickel too many coins to put in the machine crazy ways about you, not to be mean furiously fast, frenzied, frazzled and discombobulated Two dimes are spit out by this machine, not related likety splickety schmickety blickety hickety licky diky mee what type glow turn into fury?...

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Categories: word play,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Circumlocution
In a round-about, indirect Not to dissect but inspect Alternative means to deflect From some singular aspect, Of getting to a point or effect… I need to be more direct. ...

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Categories: humor, word play,
Form: Alliteration
Glimpse of Forever
departing daylight mauve rose golden symphony Maestro conductor ...

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Categories: beauty, word play,
Form: Imagism
Premium Member A Good Sense Of Humour Blunts The Sharp Blades Of Reality
a sharp two-edge blade cuts too quick for pound of flesh- sly parry of wit leaves assailant floundering for razor sharp comeback slice...

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Categories: angst, anxiety, word play,
Form: Tanka
Premium Member Proverbs Shmaverbs
Cast your bread upon the water if you like it soaky As for mine it’s in the oven ‘cos I prefer...

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Categories: play, bible, food, humor, word
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Play in the Sunshine by Prince
Song: Play in the Sunshine by Prince Checked by www.howmanysyllables.com...

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Categories: play, heart, sea, sky, sunshine,
Form: Lyric
Root Of All Evil
Isn't it funny how people see money pieces of metal so very small there's not a lot you can do with a penny or two money itself has really no uses at all it used to be beads and once it was shells at least you could wear them and buy or sell how many have a dim view of money pieces of...

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Categories: play, how i feel, humanity,
Form: Rhyme
Precious Moments
There aren't enough hours in the day to do all I need to do and for me to be there with you not enough days in the week to go where I want to be or for you to be here with me and tho' someone said, 'Crime don't pay,' in a moment you stole my heart away you're guilty don't want to lose you an...

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Categories: play, cute love, fun, romantic
Form: Rhyme
Orpheus In The Undergrowth
"As the greatest of all poets and musicians, tho' you may call me 'liar', Hermes may have invented it but I perfected the lyre and with my music and singing if only I could see the forest for the trees I would coax the woods to dance for me but, on the other hand from where I stand, it appears to be, looking at it from...

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Categories: play, celebrity, fun, humor, music,
Form: Rhyme

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