Word Play Poems | Examples of Word Play Poetry

"If I were meant to soar up there with you," said the caterpillar to the butterfly, flitting overhead, "and not stay sitting earthbound here instead, I would have been born with wings, and it will be over my body when dead, akin to a murder of crows, before you'll get me up in one of those funny-looking flying things." ...

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Long after midnight in late December woke one night in total fright as where I was did not remember but more importantly couldn't see the forest for the trees and did not recall myself at all or who exactly was this me but when I could it would feel so good as then I'd be out of the woods so instead of groping blind did quite the obvious...

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While on safari (Kiswahili for 'trip') in Tanzania over the horizon in a downward slip across the savannah the sun had begun to set thought I'd seen it all and yet out on the endless plains known to the Maasai as 'Serengeti' not laughing but and don't think me petty with leopard-like rosettes dotted some funny-looking hyenas there were spotted ...

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"Go along to get along" a wise man he once said (altho' I don't concur) but it occurred to me neither follower nor leader be if you want to get ahead and if the herd you stroll behind please do consider the view (but not too closely) yet what is worse yes you may curse that which you step into some believe the...

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Do you have a poetic licence to park your pitiful purple prose (alliteratively he wrote) it even puts my poor feet to sleep and gives me painful coma toes (literally did he quote) And have you paid your syn tax to persist in paltry poetry (a non sequitur perhaps) as dabbling in sad scribbling is how your paean 'ppears to me (no storied scripts mere scraps) Before...

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O, to be born mechanical or to possess hands botanical Alas, I find myself charlatanical in the position of car salesmanical Though there’s no...

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June June June June.... is out of tune with imploding doom unJe uJne Juen June....is out fo nute tiwh lpidmgino dmoo… mdoo omod oodm mdoo... si ni nuet tihw expoidnlg oglom doom doom doom doom... is in tune with exploding gloom ...

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My heart kneels at the sight of her tribal marks Bogoria’s geysers gushing Love, splattering Blood Parting her lips to split the world between mortals and gods I kiss her to split her Soul, create Life with her destroy all her Fears, let my intrusive Thoughts claim Victory, fill her Void; Diamanti sono per sempre, I ignore her Flaws, put her above the soi-disant amour propre, Belgard her Sacred nature;...

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Why does the trolley dolly or cart I choose to use in every supermart always have a wonky wobbly wheel and feel oh so wearing as if it's about to lose its marbles or ball bearings? It clunks like junk with a 'thunking' sound and almost dumps my groceries on the ground won't go straight invariably tilts veers careens or curves and without a doubt indubitably gets on my nerves ...

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Physicists may say, 'Random is not truly random, it only appears to be,' but another theory goes, (according to me) 'Not so when playing games of chance,' (and I have done the sums) for this experiment logic states, 'The odds in favour are 5 to 1.' As I spy with my little eye, seeing spots and counting dots on a regular die, (these don't go to 11) the...

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Froggy went a courtin', "Ribbit," he did sing, altho' singing weren't his thing, more like the punchline to a joke, 'Please don't smoke or I might croak.' In the deep end of the pond true love was his goal, and by the dawn help to spawn a few more tadpole souls. Hopped on to a water lily where he espied a fine-looking froggy filly, and in her...

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'twas at the country fair I spied her outstanding in her field (in many more ways than one) beyond compare second to none eyelashes long and lovely skin of velvety down I insist who could resist those eyes so big so brown (limpid pools?) 'twould make a fool of (almost) any man but I'm her biggest fan and I won't lie I...

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The best thing about waking up is not the coffee in our cup warming the cockles I'd impart from the bottom of our heart it's knowing we survived to see another day arrived no matter what may come our way as being late when we're done and gone is far too harsh to contemplate so smell the flavour savour the roast and of our time here on earth before...

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Silverback led his gorilla by the wrist out into the fog and missed, lost his heart and then his way, sadly, he was heard to say, "Don't get me wrong, I'm no King Kong, it's plain to see, so, don't make a monkey out of me." Silverback took his gorilla by the hand, looking for the promised land, a jungle bungle at very best, made him...

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When asked if he toked the evil weed, William Jefferson Clinton (né?Blythe III), aka, Bill Clinton, we heard, did indeed, if not totally beyond the pale these words he spoke, "I smoked but didn’t inhale," and altho' with no proof, yet by the book, with that he was off the hook. Then came Monica Lewinsky, their relationship he lied to hide, accused with obstruction of...

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