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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.


Premium Member The Desert
a 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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© Joe Dimino  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: word play, dark, death, fate, imagery,



Premium Member 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,

Premium Member Prowling For Prey
            lioness is hunting
          lioness...

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Categories: animal, fun, word play,

WHEN I GROW UP
When 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,

Premium Member The Eyes
being 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 Days
I 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

Premium Member 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 Morte
The 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

Premium Member Fragments Landed Here
fRaGmEnTs
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,

Premium Member 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,

Premium Member What's the Matter
Have 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,

Premium Member Bow To Me
A 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,

Exhausted
I 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,

Premium Member And Goddess of Destiny Ordained That We Meet
And 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,

Premium Member Vignettes a Collection
In 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,


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