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Word Play Poems | Examples of Word Play Poetry

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 short, long, best, and famous poem examples for word play.
Premium Member The Uki II
Uki 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...Read the rest...
Categories: word play, dark, fantasy, nonsense, scary,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member A I POETRY DEFINED
A I POETRY DEFINED a l o g rhythms...Read the rest...
Categories: science fiction, word play,
Form: Footle



Premium Member The Midnight Spire Spooky Nonsense
hryeer 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...Read the rest...
Categories: word play, fun, gothic, nonsense, scary,
Form: Light Verse
Battling Time
I 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...Read the rest...
Categories: word play, change, crazy, fun, funny,
Form: Rhyme
Leather Piecemeal
As 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...Read the rest...
Categories: word play, art, beautiful, beauty, cute,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member The Haunting Scary Broogle
bescare 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...Read the rest...
Categories: word play, dark, fun, gothic, horror,
Form: Light Verse
B-cup Collecting Tips on the Southeast
the 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....Read the rest...
Categories: word play, art, corruption, courage, crazy,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member PoetrySoup EPITAPH r i p
PoetrySoup R. I. P drowned in an AI sea ...Read the rest...
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...Read the rest...
Categories: word play, adventure, celebration, confidence, courage,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Werewolf Who Knitted A Cardigan
the 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...Read the rest...
Categories: word play, fun, humorous, light, nonsense,
Form: Light Verse
be gentle
. i've never been critiqued...Read the rest...
Categories: word play,
Form: Epigram
Premium Member dilly dallying danny
dilly 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....Read the rest...
Categories: word play,
Form: Alliteration
Deny
AI bye bye just don't fly ...Read the rest...
Categories: word play,
Form: I do not know?
Dawning
No 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. ~~ Innocence dares not question The mating, as fear slinks away, premonitions abound. Requited...Read the rest...
Categories: creation, word play,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Foreword
Frightened by what I have written, Still I move forward past my foreword....Read the rest...
Categories: poetess, word play, words,
Form: Crystalline

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