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.


Sunken Sailor

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
© Jim Bowron  Create an image from this poem.


Bad Rhyming Muse

I never wanted she
trimming my words

I always wanted muse
icon not to be blues





so much Tuesday 14.06.2016

Premium Member Cannonball

round metal object
placed inside long cylinders
drop shoot cannon ball

3/29/18
written by James Edward Lee Sr.©2018
Form: Haiku

Late To Supper

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!
© Pat Adams  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Quatrain

Premium Member Rhetoric the Form

a question that needs no answer  this example after Shelley's 'Wind'

O mist
If Autumn comes can Winter be far behind?
Form: Didactic


Premium Member Malice In Blunderland

no more splitting hares white rabbit's clock is ticking ... stop passing the buck 03/03/20
Form: Senryu

Premium Member Verse Freed To Opinionate

MARS&VENUS
Side
 by side-
she'd listen
missing true love's
gaze
Face
to face-
he'd listen
only hearing 
praise.
Form: Lanterne

Premium Member Monoku Neo Impression

dots before the eyes*


*the most famous example https://www.artic.edu/artworks/27992/a-sunday-on-la-grande-jatte-1884
Form: Monoku

Premium Member Parse-Lee Say-G, Rose-Marie 'N Time

Sigh-man 'n Garf-uncle
      A Luv-Lee Pear
         Whir they a bit 'u-no-what'
            ~ Wood you 'of dared dare

Premium Member Ups and Downs

What goes up
     must come down
   But can it go back up again?

   Hope so, when --
     your jaw drops, my friend
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Don'T Let This Freak You Out

Spelling's such a stupid thing
    to get freaked out about

  Of this, I am very shure
    ~ In fact, I have no dout
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member A Can Knot

a po-at-tree
can knot one's
toil...letting...

when

th(e)-oughts go
directly to paper
as any po am

stans sand
© Sand Blown  Create an image from this poem.

Premium Member On Translating Turbulent Tulips

    ‘Turbulent Tulips’ 
     cannot be translated to Vietnamese
 
     Neither can
       ~ ‘Peripatetic Peonies’
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member WHO KNEW

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

Premium Member Rejigging dis-membered memories

can't re-assemble
what the forgotten has lost
for to re-member,
memories you must firstly
dis-member them carefully
Form: Tanka

Premium Member Pigs Squeal

      Pigs squeal
         They also lie

      Wudja expect 
         from a creature
       that lives in a sty
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Who's In Charge

WHO’s in charge

Everybody has the right to everything that everybody has…wouldn’t want to referee that.


11/30/2021
Form: Monoku

Premium Member Pardon the Grammar

I keep dilly-dallying to compose 
my very own debut book!!
The more I read, seems all 
the cool plots are already took!
Form: Quatrain

Premium Member Haiku In a Word 4

haiga*



*Japanse vertical haiku combined with a picture

An example of my haiga http://haiga-ichthys.blogspot.com/
Form: Haiku

Gun Control

Red Ryder had a BB gun
That Playboy bunnies could outrun
Their fluffy tails
Alerted males
A Little Beaver is more fun!
Form: Limerick

Premium Member Clerihew Velasquez

In Spain lived Diego Velasquez
upon his painting did evryone gaze
setting his scene so expertly
 hidden therein ,was he
Form: Clerihew

Premium Member Take a Drink

Take a drink
  then think
Think, then
  take a drink
Getting confused
  on the brink
One more drink
  ~ doublethink
Form: Monorhyme

Heavenly Words

Say seven words
to send me heavenwards
heavy holiness heats
as the heavens turn
I hope in hell
that you horribly burn

Randomling 22: Newton's Poultice

Apple falls from tree
Newton (ouch!) takes notice
Comes up with law of gravity
while wearing a poultice
on the solstice
Form: Verse

The Guard

The Guard is
Guarding
Some people
Or
Some place
Or
Something
Valuable.

Who is
Guarding his
Back from
Traitors?

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