Death Word Play Poems
These Death Word Play poems are examples of Word Play poems about Death. These are the best examples of Word Play Death poems written by international poets.
The Deserta rattler flicking its
split tongue...gathering
chemical messengers~ Prairie Dog
without a prayer
vulture, periscope downward
navigates a granulate sea,
follows the wavering flow of tracks~
just over a grilling...
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Categories:
word play, dark, death, fate, imagery,
Little Miss Muffet
Little Miss Muffet loved her curds and whey,
give me a box of cereal with cold milk and I will be on my way....
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Categories:
word play, children, fun, nursery rhyme,
Prowling For Prey
lioness is hunting
lioness...
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Categories:
animal, fun, word play,
WHEN I GROW UPWhen I grow up
I will love to know why
People call a Snake specie Rattlesnake,
When all snakes actually Rattle
When I grow up
I will love...
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Categories:
word play, allusion, culture, humorous, life,
The Eyesbeing watched
by eyes over there
over there
where the eyes are not
their ethereal glare
nefarious
unseen, ready
like puckered lips
this eyeless wraith
with lidless eyes
nowhere, peering
beyond their death
there are eyes staring
that...
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Categories:
psychological, scary, word play,
In the Good Old DaysI am yet to have the good old days
It has just been just wishes of death
To give me one big rest
When I have...
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Categories:
word play, depression, emotions, lost, mental
Dead End Street
Once, when I was young – another writer,
A poet and poetry lover, someone undiscovered…
She (it could have been he since I only knew
Pen names...
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Categories:
word play, poems, poetess, poetry, poets,
The Death Notice - O Anuncio De MorteThe Death Notice
O Anuncio de Morte
I am turning into an old man.
While my mind runs 100 miles an hour,
I am learning my body...
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Categories:
word play, eulogy, farewell, how i
Fragments Landed HerefRaGmEnTs
landed HERE
in time for
the twilight of
life
…where
percussive villains
perform on
a global stage
as glowing slime
slithers
through one
mendacious midpoint
at a time &
earth's...
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Categories:
word play, dark, death, humorous, society,
Time“Time is money”
“Time heals all wounds”
“Time is what you make of it”
Truth, somewhere in the ticking
corridors we daily and nightly
transverse (Poe said brightly
and dimly dreaming)...
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Categories:
word play, faith, life, time, truth,
What's the MatterHave you heard all the science chatter
That the future is not made of matter
I don’t mean to detract
But as a matter of fact
That all they...
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Categories:
science, word play,
Bow To MeA genie's lamp cannot compare,
To smoke awoken from my breath,
Slithered out in ancient swear,
Unshackled life from sudden death.
Hear me now in brazen bond,
Bow to me,...
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Categories:
word play, allegory, confusion, crazy, dance,
ExhaustedI am tired of politics
On the left the ideas are always right
And on the right there is no humanity left
No one ever changes their...
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Categories:
word play, angst, betrayal, emotions, introspection,
And Goddess of Destiny Ordained That We MeetAnd Goddess Of Destiny Ordained That We Meet
I walk through silent waters so slowly adrift
My doomsday heart racing just to barely keep up
The old barn...
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Categories:
word play, art, destiny, dream, symbolism,
Vignettes a CollectionIn the base motor pool
See an off-limits card school-
A scheming Bilko takes the pot
Hoodwinking top brass was his game,
Fast talking his claim to fame.
VIGNETTE-ALL OF...
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Categories:
poetry, word play,