Word Play Poems | Examples of Word Play Poetry

When business went from bad to worse and the Nookie Bookie (a pimp) with a curse saw the number of customers' trousers drop he took umbrage at an advertisement in the press inserted by the local knocking shop (where pleasure is a business) which was seen to say... RED LIGHT SPECIAL Too many hookers spoil the brothel Gentlemen today's the day you're in luck 2 for the price of 1 more BANG...

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FLIP-FLOP FLIP-FLOP FLIP-FLOP GOING BAREFOOT FEELS FINE AT THE TIME YEAH AND SHOES DO TOO SOMETIMES I NEED SOMETHING LIGHT SOMETHING NOT QUITE SO TIGHT ONLY SANDALS WILL DO OF THE PACK I HAD MY PICK WISH I KNEW WHAT MAKES THEM TICK AND GET A HANDLE ON THESE MY BRAND NEW SANDALS THEY DIDN'T COST A LOT OF MONEY BUT WHEN I WALK MY FEET...

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Spoke to a bloke from Blighty whose wife wouldn't wear a nightie when she rolled over he told me her ankles were tangled then turned back her throat strangled all the more 'I can't retire' she said so instead she wore bloomers to bed ...

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We drive on the left park in the driveway and walk on the pavement over here in the good old U.K. They drive on the right and on the parkway also the pavement over there in the U.S. of A. Confusing to tourist and traveler alike, so where should we go when riding a bike? ...

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Plain Jane Mrs. Poindexter Perry Questioned quipster with a quarrelsome query riling him up, down, on top and around sappy sarcasm certainly not very sound tearjerking interrogation turning treacherous uncontrite interview unequivocally uncourteous...

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I've oft been offered but not tempted by large helpings of pie in the sky from too many crooks who indeed the broth did spoil and so as not to be sullied by such greasy oil I stay out of their kitchen not because I can't stand the heat but what's on their menu ain't my cup of meat apple or cherry by the slice...

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There are those who think the masses are like a legion of lemmings doing a death march into the sea (actually a river) but suicidal lemmings are a myth created by none other than Walt Disney in Alberta, Canada where (no lemmings live) the 1958 film 'White Wilderness' was made and the sordid scandalous scene by the filmmakers was staged spinning turntables were constructed all covered...

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In my experience between the two I'm not naming names but what people say and what they do are not always one and the same as they don't follow through life gets in the way I understand but that's no reason not to let me know there's been a change of plan when told I'll call give you a ring is when I know I'll never hear from them ever again all...

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In the next life if reincarnated as a mayfly I am designated it's good enough for me with nothing but fun for twenty-four hours (under the sun) until the race is run bonking here bonking there I'll be bonking everywhere non-stop until I drop ...

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The bold horizon burned and died cold in my eyes as I turned aside on the road to nowhere taking it slow making it easy in no hurry to go I'm taking my time for I never felt the need to heed the latest mad fad or follow the current day's craze yet I don't fret or sweat the small stuff but I did learn soon enough the tide...

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benign bewitchment beyond bibble-babble bias between boisterous besties backed by bandwagon bandits bamboozled both boldfaced barefooted brothers...

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Putting my best foot forward shoulder to the wheel nose to the grindstone my Achilles heel while sticking my neck out I soon found as with my eye on the ball ear to the ground when I put my back into it not with tongue in cheek but to keep my chin up heard joints creak the onset of old age memory loss an early taste for in the end...

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Wise man say, “No laugh up sleeve, while wear heart on same. For misconstrued may be, lose heart's desire, passion's flame.” Happy dentist say, when at chair, always looking down in mouth, “If two-thirty appointment, timely arrive, open wide, north and south.” Smart dry cleaner say, “When laundering get old, ironing fatigues. Fresh stuff, no fluff nor fold, we take...

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I can't bring myself to read the front page news with which they string us along as portrayed by the views of those with a vested interest or the rest with an axe to grind who must think we're all just deaf dumb and blind to the truth of which there's more in the speech balloons of the funny characters in the Sunday cartoons it's all a...

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18th April 1775 on the strong big-boned mare 'Brown Beauty' may have been her name borrowed from John Larkin a very good horse of Narragansett Pacer fame a copper-bottomed silversmith Son of Liberty Patriot and Boston-born riding with Prescott and Dawes toward Lexington then Concord minutemen in advance to warn of the British Army's actions was intercepted in Lincoln but doing his bit the man...

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