Word Play Poems | Examples of Word Play Poetry

Still a child at heart tho' older are some other parts and only for a lark back to my childhood here I hark I remember a rhyme in the far reaches of my mind hickory dickory dock the mice ran up the clock the clock struck one the mouse fell down luckily the plucky other ducked shucked and jived escaped survived got out alive and ran away to live another...

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Once we were hunter-gatherers tribes grouped outdoors before the days of yore now we're hunt and peckers each cooped indoors on personal computer keyboards and way back when we'd communicate banging on the drums yes since then we've progressed today we're all fingers and thumbs ...

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Under eighteen hot tears spilling nowhere near serene at the end of your rope cannot cope need fulfilling please don't mope there's always hope here's the dope find someone thrilling you can soft-soap who is willing and won't say 'Nope' to a clandestine marriage on the slippery slope of the blacksmith's anvil hire the carriage you prefer defer the billing and elope ...

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Scots golfers do not 'golf' as they say in the U.S.A. invented in Scotland it's as they ought a sport the Scottish play the first tennis player known by name (Louis X) did not 'tennis' when he played the game even so I may one day bend my elbow consider the racket and give it a go looks like the language is slowly downward drifting and come this Christmas you won't see...

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If I owned a circus for you I'd play the clown (Do jugglers ever tire of throwing up? Only when they're sick of it.) or if I had a rickshaw I could run you round the town if I were landlord of a bar drinks would be on me as proprietor of a restaurant you would dine for free and if I had a row...

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When first invited to The Land of Milk and Honey where stars at night shone bright and days there were always sunny he demurred to go Abraham was of a mind to politely decline as wouldn't you know he was lactose intolerant and diabetic too so the alleged Promised Land would only guarantee even more misery but when he repented and relented as his story unravels more than 2,200...

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Tho' right-handed instruments the two do play yet one is downside up left-handed musicians both are they or seem to sup from a similar southpaw cup and if you follow the trail of crumbs they lead to Jimi the Starr of guitar and stick to Ringo the Hendrix of drums ...

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"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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