Short Play On Words Poems

play on words voiced aloud...

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A man in French is ” homme”;
drop the “h” and add a “p”
“homme” becomes a “pomme”, 
an apple. And if I’m not mistaken
isn’t that how the first “homme” 
got to know “la pomme fatale”?...

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Adolph Hitler was right












handed

wasn't sure about this one
but then its just a play on words
probably using the worlds most evil person
was a bit extreme
but you get the gist...

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tell me now
do I
      protest
      too much?
words
    of alarm
    and
    metaphor,
in puns
     and
     play on words,
synonym
   of
      arrested
      stress
in
device
      & trick...

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Paronomasia

Rhetoric usage—
A pun, a true play on words!
Shades of confusion . . . 
	Ditto sounds, other meanings . . . 
Phonetic pun poetic!

Gary Bateman, Copyright © All Rights Reserved
July 28, 2018 (Tanka)...

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Thoughts of death.
Life roulette.

Play with fire.
With ones desire.

Beyond the norm.
Not to conform.

Quiet, Talk.
Quick-witted, jabberwock.

Past, present.
future judgement.

Chained domain.
Free reign.

Love to hate.
Soul checkmate....

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Listen to poem:

A long piece of string
is shorter when knotted.
Memories entwined, enraptured 
are captured, confined 
to remind in locket.
Held dangling over the heart,
on string tied behind 
the neck, knotted

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A Wordplay Poem
30 June 2021...

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You say you appreciate my imagination and play on words
this attitude of mine needs maintaining
as much as a sound needs to be heard
the opinion of what my work does fascinates me 
so this poem's from me to you
a heartfelt thank you
with complete sincerity...

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smooth
           numb
charming
             mean
sundown
              sunset
notions
             emotions
perchance
               dreams
blurred
           blue
green
           bloom
teem
           heed
need
           hint
deploy
           joy...

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The book keeper
mops the slush pile,
dusts paragraphs,
adding a vase of clarity
on the table of contents,
creates settings
for the ghost writer
to slow down
run-on sentences,
mends torn sheets -
Oh, tearsheets…
Anyway,
in the end
wraps a nice soft cover
around everything....

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hurt
      howls
courage
      is crushed
feelings 
        fashion
and alters
       perspective:
vanity's vision
blind to 
          wisdom 
empty of 
         endeavour 
embraces 
        self-love
lives an illusion 
in 
mirages's 
          mirror 
of 
time & 
           space...

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Rudolf was in his Tundra cave with his wife
He poked out his nose and said, its raining outside
She said, are you sure it is rain, it looks like snow from here 
Certainly he said, Rudolf the Red knows rain dear 
I have a very soaking nose
And if you ever asked me
I could even tell you when it snows...

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I live by the mouth
quick wit is my bullet
the trigger no doubt
my impulses pull it

You could say on the hole
it does me no good 
but I haven’t control
would stop if I could

The day my mouth runs witless
I’ll stand a prat to witness




*hole - play on words, on the whole/ on my mouth hole...

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WILL THE REEL* TEDDY PLEASE STAND UP

John Alexander acts a Roosevelt - Teddy.
Bugle calls him up the stairs, steady.
With great veracity and a capacity to frame -
his character as a lunatic or a hero, just the same.

6/13/2017
Clerihew Form

* as in a movie reel (a play on words)...

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She Misses His Hymn

She brood
His oohed

11/21/17

STAND ALONE FOOTLE - Poetry Contest

Note-brood, verb-worry, fret, sit, incubate
oohed, abstract noun-pleasure, satisfaction
title-since he is not in her presence, misses (play on words) 
his essence, his hymns (play on words) she worries (brood) 


Another goose egg....

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great play on words,
  an phrases here Joe,
ears of clay, hear not,
as feet of clay support what,
false advertising in its way,
common in the media of today,
rachet jaw i hope i'm surely  not,
just ancient mortal here it is my lot:) 
ol johnson pays the piper  just to play...

re: "A Peace Of My Heart" Joe Maverick 


Don Johnson...

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Where a bargain is not a play on words;
I grip the cart eager to seek discounted goods,
Beautifully arranged on tin shelves.

Smiles around every corner;
Down every aisle a satisfied person.
A deal on every item, leaving the store by the bagful.

A much needed change of pace;
Weaving up and down the unforgettable
Joy that is the dollar store....

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Shirley has a flea circus
She keeps in a bag she bought
She ties the bag shut real well
So escape for them is naught

A rendition of Hamlet 
They would play for all the nerds
All on top of a scrabble board
She calls it, a play on words!

She had those small actor fleas
In that bag that she had got
So none of them could escape
When tied with a Shirley knot!...

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Just deny that you once had a member
You’re not gay and you are not transgender
Cos it comes from the top
that you’re in for the chop…
but you voted him in, do remember!

Inspired by the current news in the US today. The title is a play on words as I have read that at one time he was an ally of the gay and transgender community


27-07-17...

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April showers dampen flowers...
   May has showers that will soon
dazzle flowers with great showers...
   prelude to the month of June.

Happy flowers love their showers
   that bring gifts for happy times
when with bouquets, pretty flowers
   walk the isle as church bells chime.


Sandra M. Haight

(Form: Quatrain with play on words, flowers, showers)
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If you are gay it's quite very clear
That sometimes you'll queer if the same sex is here.

But don't get any fags...they're bad for your health.
Homosexuality has nothing to do with sickness, so go on help yourself!












(play on words gay: happy, queer: weird, fags for the English means cigarettes
 let yourself out of the closet! be strong and do not hide)...

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There's a cow pie in the yard.
So what do you think?
Is it bull?

(Cow pie is American slang for cow dung & "bull" is the
abbreviated form of a vulgar word meaning something foolish
or useless. Anyway, it's a play on words that I hope translates
ok for the non native English speakers here)

For Dr. Ram Mehta's Contest on Quinzaine Poems
and now for PD's "any poem under 5 lines #1" - Poetry Contest...

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two shoes lie mirrored
forgotten when spring cleaning -
the wake remembered

The use of 'lie' in line 1 is meant, a play on words to try and create a double image /
feeling depending on how it is read.

1. Two shoes laying side by side, a mirror reflection of each other
2. The shoes, just by their presence there imply that they are used, which as the reader
discovers later in the Haiku is in fact a lie....

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Please Don’t Laugh

Today, I have a wonderful feeling
	all I want  to do is shout out loud in squealing
	and write silly little quips randomly appealing.

Goofy writings, a play on words
	and I don’t care if you heard
	or feign pseudo interest in my blurbs.

Happy chuckles can really be a most difficult task
	if in public view you fall and hear the laughs -
	just ask someone who’s fallen on their ass....

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Flirting  can be lots of fun
 A verbal tango of the tongue
 With complete strangers it can be done
  A play on words, spun on puns

 At the store while waiting in line
 Your flirting can begin
 And if the girl in front of you is fine
 You will flirt with a silly grin!

 You can also flirt on the Soup
 With a poetess you find cute
 It's fun for all within the group
 As we flirt with metaphors in hot pursuit...

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