Short Word Play Poems
Short Word Play Poems. Below are examples of the most popular short Word Play poems by PoetrySoup poets. Search short Word Play poetry by poem length and keyword.
Tie one on
Yesterday I went to port
Today I'm going to court
I'm just a sad sailor
And I'm in jail
That's all I know
I never wanted she
trimming my words
I always wanted muse
icon not to be blues
so much Tuesday 14.06.2016
round metal object
placed inside long cylinders
drop shoot cannon ball
3/29/18
written by James Edward Lee Sr.©2018
Ed said he was a cannibal
How could he be any bolder?
Even so, when he got home late
All he got was the cold shoulder!
a question that needs no answer this example after Shelley's 'Wind'
O mist
If Autumn comes can Winter be far behind?
no more splitting hares
white rabbit's clock is ticking ...
stop passing the buck
03/03/20
MARS&VENUS
Side
by side-
she'd listen
missing true love's
gaze
Face
to face-
he'd listen
only hearing
praise.
dots before the eyes*
*the most famous example https://www.artic.edu/artworks/27992/a-sunday-on-la-grande-jatte-1884
Sigh-man 'n Garf-uncle
A Luv-Lee Pear
Whir they a bit 'u-no-what'
~ Wood you 'of dared dare
What goes up
must come down
But can it go back up again?
Hope so, when --
your jaw drops, my friend
Spelling's such a stupid thing
to get freaked out about
Of this, I am very shure
~ In fact, I have no dout
a po-at-tree
can knot one's
toil...letting...
when
th(e)-oughts go
directly to paper
as any po am
stans sand
‘Turbulent Tulips’
cannot be translated to Vietnamese
Neither can
~ ‘Peripatetic Peonies’
I do believe there are too many
Or maybe just a few…too many
To many a few is too many
And to a few too many too few
can't re-assemble
what the forgotten has lost
for to re-member,
memories you must firstly
dis-member them carefully
Pigs squeal
They also lie
Wudja expect
from a creature
that lives in a sty
WHO’s in charge
Everybody has the right to everything that everybody has…wouldn’t want to referee that.
11/30/2021
I keep dilly-dallying to compose
my very own debut book!!
The more I read, seems all
the cool plots are already took!
haiga*
*Japanse vertical haiku combined with a picture
An example of my haiga http://haiga-ichthys.blogspot.com/
Red Ryder had a BB gun
That Playboy bunnies could outrun
Their fluffy tails
Alerted males
A Little Beaver is more fun!
In Spain lived Diego Velasquez
upon his painting did evryone gaze
setting his scene so expertly
hidden therein ,was he
Take a drink
then think
Think, then
take a drink
Getting confused
on the brink
One more drink
~ doublethink
Say seven words
to send me heavenwards
heavy holiness heats
as the heavens turn
I hope in hell
that you horribly burn
Apple falls from tree
Newton (ouch!) takes notice
Comes up with law of gravity
while wearing a poultice
on the solstice
The Guard is
Guarding
Some people
Or
Some place
Or
Something
Valuable.
Who is
Guarding his
Back from
Traitors?