Word Play Poems | Examples of Word Play Poetry

Looking out my back door as the day slowly dies the sun bleeding colours across the endless skies of all the hopes I ever had I never knew would come through I was hoping for something would show me what to do watching from my window the night was on the rise the moon spreading silver above the cloudy skies of all...

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Should you like to view the shrike or have a butchers take a hike to where they nest while at rest but better yet sneak a peek at the dancing yet docile and stupid blue-footed booby as it will make you smile for they have no need to choose a pair of blue suede shoes and how to catch them there's no secret you would...

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Dancing in my room as the daylight fades my silhouette turns pirouettes on the window shade how much love does it take to break the spell and shake this gloom I know too well rainy days I've had my share the outlook it's not always fair searching for a way reaching out for you 'til you return and make the sun shine...

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When Holmes ejaculated, 'It doesn't take a brilliant detective to identify many of the people on this planet are damaged or defective,' Dr. Watson was heard to observe, 'Never a truer word spoken. Most we meet, at 221B Baker street, are utterly, if not completely, broken. Psychologists reason, 'Conditioning's the cause for them to follow such absurd routines,' but it's my considered and confirmed belief, insanity...

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I knew an old buffoon quite the gloomy poltroon who flew his hot air balloon through a stormy monsoon and among the Walloon and Flemish much to their surprise did not meet his demise but with neither a blot not a jot nor blemish at all on hand in the small 6-Government densely populated parliamentary constitutional monarchy 3-language country of Belgium safely did crash land ...

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words wake me up shake me up insist on having their way I am the marionette they are my puppet masters They are insistent and persistent I follow their lead I am their minion They laugh at my plight, loving their power words wear the crown wield the power write the edicts dictate what will happen before and beyond they declare and decide demand and command I am their play...

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don't talk, you'll spoil it— this version of me I've been trying to see as you— don't say anything, let's enjoy our basic witch status, excel in the practice of angles— let's remain unsolvable assistants in the craft. sleights of hand, close-up magic, all of it— disappears without audience participation. ...

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There was a young Lady who followed a Prince, then became a Princess when she kissed a frog, I don't know why — perhaps she's Di. This same young Lady married the dog, not a hog to marry a dog, she married the frog to catch a King, I don't know why — perhaps she'll die. There was a young frog who...

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Spring is sprawling out there somewhere in a Bikini on a Beach drinking Beer toes in the sand glass in hand while snowflakes are falling and winter's still here then when good old sunny summer comes (and swallows do too) oh to go Barefoot in a Boat on the sea Barbecue in the garden play Ball in the park fun in the sun 'til evening twilight lowers the night a curtain...

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We went for a walk, one windy day, through the woods, and along the way, she said to me, "If you please, let's sit a while, it would make me smile, beneath these shady willow trees." Yet, as just then, a gale-like gust blew by, in apprehension, I asked her, "Why?" And with a flirt, a lift of skirt, the lady promptly...

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People come and people go and how the times do change but something here needs to be done it should be rearranged preachers pundits politicians won't ever set things right the man in the street can make a difference if he takes up the fight so many souls lost at sea tho' they're on dry land action speaks louder than words they need a helping hand and...

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May your annual commemoration of the winter solstice with one of the Earth's poles at its maximum tilt from the sun be abundant with innumerable manifestations of felicity friends good food and fun and may the next full circuit of the ecliptic engender a propensity toward bestowing plenteousness too and may unparalleled prosperity be forthcoming and settle like snowflakes gently upon you ...

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collaterally speaking... war is like plowing... don't like peace...hell!...bomb-plow it: life...collateral......

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tuxedo cat all dressed up nowhere to go...

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The shuttlecock's not got a feather my balls have lost their tether yo-yo and hula hoop have gone for a loop chasing rainbow's become a boring chore in any kind of weather and me I fling and fly frisbees no more as now there's come the day when games and music I can't play the fiddle has a broken bow out of wind such...

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