Word Play Poems - Examples of all types of word play poetry to share and read. This list of new poems is composed of the works of modern poets on PoetrySoup. Read
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The Uki IIUki does as Uki does
bespindled body longly wire
a sharpen finger pointing on
sceetch n scewtch
o sire now gone
left he alone to brale and berr
in darken room to scratchen there
Uki does as Uki does
lest he the...
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Categories:
word play, dark, fantasy, nonsense, scary,
Form: Light Verse
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Categories:
science fiction, word play,
Form: Footle
The Midnight Spire Spooky Nonsensehryeer the spire
tall and overseeing
syeer across roof tops
beguy the haunt
of drift and of drag
a ghoul’s midnight
of taunt and brag
hryeer the spire
point at those
you beckon
home to the tomb
of your graveyard
of stone
hryeer the spire
thy fingerly jab
beguy the...
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Categories:
word play, fun, gothic, nonsense, scary,
Form: Light Verse
Battling TimeI would have been here sooner
But I got in a fight with time
And lost you see.
It wasn't fair.
I slept in a little bit,
and it started his day
way before me.
I asked him
where...
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Categories:
word play, change, crazy, fun, funny,
Form: Rhyme
Leather PiecemealAs mortal veils dissolved, our bodies merged in the ossuary's somber symphonies, two mistress awakened by the velvet-wrapped cadavers, our disinvested hands tracing syllabic patterns across the olive verdure of our skin, as maelstroms of...
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Categories:
word play, art, beautiful, beauty, cute,
Form: Free verse
The Haunting Scary Brooglebescare the Broogle stalking the stair
floiting hoiting loitering there
the Broogle the Broogle its howl of a scare
heeden oh heedon unsqueem beware
the Broogle the Broogle stalking the stair
befear the Broogle creepingly near
gooling hooling gathering here
the Broogle...
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Categories:
word play, dark, fun, gothic, horror,
Form: Light Verse
B-cup Collecting Tips on the Southeastthe city's sick scar, fuels my descent, into this abyss, where twisted creatures writhe, in the darkness. cyclops with one eye, on the ball, three-headed puppies, sealed behind glass, strippers selling tickets to the apocalypse....
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Categories:
word play, art, corruption, courage, crazy,
Form: Free verse
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Categories:
allegory, word play,
Form: Epitaph
Fearless
Fearless
I am not afraid of the future
The mystery it holds.
Lurking in the shadows, uncertain.
Bring with it, when it comes:
the crashing of a thousand cymbals
the roll of the drums,waves in my ears
roar of the seas, extravaganza.
The...
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Categories:
word play, adventure, celebration, confidence, courage,
Form: Free verse
The Werewolf Who Knitted A Cardiganthe werewolf who knitted a cardigan
began because his gran was ill
as she began but became unwell
with winding winding woven wool
so gran oh gran your cardigan
can span the colours a cardi can
because your grandson has...
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Categories:
word play, fun, humorous, light, nonsense,
Form: Light Verse
Categories:
word play,
Form: Epigram
dilly dallying dannydilly dallying danny deliberately defies
daughter dinahs deliberations
denise does donuts during danny’s debate
roaring, rearing, ready rusty ruminations
rarely recognizable, really riling up dinah’s
dander....
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Categories:
word play,
Form: Alliteration
Categories:
word play,
Form: I do not know?
DawningNo greater gift do I have than me.
To give all that I be, weakness and steel,
Handed unafraid, exuberantly tossed,
Into union where none became one.
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Innocence dares not question
The mating, as fear slinks away, premonitions abound.
Requited...
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Categories:
creation, word play,
Form: Free verse
ForewordFrightened by what I have written,
Still I move forward past my foreword....
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Categories:
poetess, word play, words,
Form: Crystalline
Specific Types of Word Play Poems
Definition | What is Word Play in Poetry?