Anyone For Tennis?
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I do enjoy verbal tennis
wordplay may be a game
outwit outsmart the opponent
is the only aim
lobbing phrases across the net
volley and rally back and forth
no one's a loser and yet
t...
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Categories:
word game, humorous, sports, word play,
Form: Rhyme
WORD LADDER
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I like to solve word ladders…as a puzzle I think they’re great!
Did you know Lewis Carroll invented word ladders back in 1878?
Yes, the same Lewis Carroll who in 1865 I understand…
wrote a sto...
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Categories:
word game, love,
Form: Rhyme
superbowl
...It’s a chill and rainy Saturday night in New Haven - it’s Superbowl eve! My roommates Leong, Anna and Lisa and I were playing a game of Upwards - it’s a scrabble-like word game and we’re all strangel...
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Categories:
word game, fun, humor, night, school,
Form: Free verse
Cluster
...Two rival hockey teams take the ice
Gloves off at game time. bAm! PoW! SLICE!
It was a cluster puck
And that is putting it toothlessly nice.
I learned woodchucks couldn’t chuck wood
What would...
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Categories:
word game, funny, humor,
Form: Rhyme
French
...You left us a sound recording of the pronunciation
but I'm guessing my ien from yang
with no written list to escrow
I'm blundering trying to shoulder this word game
and my reve of speakeasy fade...
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Categories:
word game, absence,
Form: Free verse
1 Word
...Poetry speaks Poem
play around with sentences
simulation play in life
poetry
is a word game
life
is playing
play
only dead people
who doesn't like poetry
because people die
They
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Categories:
word game, 10th grade, 1st grade,
Form: Blank verse
It Rained and Rained
...Now politicians play word game.
Saying climate change is to blame,
Implying Nature's got it wrong
And that they were right all along.
So these great powers must impress
And claim they can cure t...
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Categories:
word game, environment,
Form: Rhyme
A Child's First Day of Distance Learning
...I totally adore distance learning!
I realize, it’s the best for me!
in the morning got up so late...
still I could catch up with my class!
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Categories:
word game, children, fun,
Form: Verse
I Am An Illustration of God
...I am an Illustration of GOD!In the era of Wounded civilization
He fashioned us with an illustration…Triumphs used for defeat was crucified love…. Stop suffering rise up your pain above!!
Stop gra...
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Categories:
word game, bible, blessing, depression, father
Form: Free verse
I Am Addicted To Word Games
...I am addicted
Addicted to word games
Playing others online
Who are also addicted
To word games
My mother loved
Playing Dabble
Her favorite word game
She had to beat the clock
And makes sev...
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Categories:
word game, word play,
Form: Free verse
Word Game Obsession
...I sit with two I-pads on my lap
Four hours at a time
Sometimes six
Playing word games
Why two?
Because one is thinking
While I am pounding the keys on the other one.
I do not abide thinking t...
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Categories:
word game, word play, words,
Form: I do not know?
Poetry of My Soul
...My soul lives for poetry, even in my sleep,
Poetry is one of the best things in my life I will keep.
My soul is my partner, my spirit and my heart,
It inspires me to write even when my heart is ...
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Categories:
word game, heart, poetry,
Form: Couplet
Making My Way
...I’m feeling that feeling
I felt in the beginning
Times flying by
my minds still spinning
I think I’m losing ground
And my patience is thinning
Getting tangled up in
the webs Life’s spinning...
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Categories:
word game, character, repetition, truth,
Form: Free verse
Fire Cypher
...supercalifragilisticexpialidocious
Ice cold mic hold
A flow that’s so ferocious
a Higher level focus
Exposes my neurosis
bogus amateurs are hopeless
Yoga poses lotus
Possibly psychosis
Or...
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Categories:
word game, hip hop, rap,
Form: Free verse
My Love For Words
...Words are arbitrary,
Who says that is a W?
But who NAMED it?
Could not a W have been written as a Y?
Once upon a time, when someone created an alphabet?
Could not a 7 have been an S?
Liberating...
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Categories:
word game, perspective, poems, poetry, word
Form: Free verse
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