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January Word Play Poems

These January Word Play poems are examples of Word Play poems about January. These are the best examples of Word Play January poems written by international poets.


Premium Member Where Is Petootsie
how many words are added to the dictionary each year?
None?
One?
Two?
Would you believe a new word is added every two hours?
Four thousand new words are added...

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Categories: word play, words,



Bouquet
He swirled the wine around his glass
and then he sniffed for its bouquet.
Some wilted flowers for his wife!
'A fine bouquet,' I heard her say.

written 28th...

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© Jack Horne  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: word play,

Premium Member Composing a Lipogram
You may think that writing
is dysfunctional-
to script a thought not using 
that sign of ABCs post-D.
This art that's built of words 
is inspiration-bound;
finding worthy, optional...

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Categories: poems, word play, words,

Clandestine Closet
Never advisable to be naked! 
       Unfolding ability to assume changes
       Depict funeral...

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Categories: word play, age, clothes, color, woman,

Premium Member Can't Deny It Hurts
at times what was not said
speaks louder than what was said



AP: Honorable Mention 2023

Posted on January 16, 2023...

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Categories: word play, longing, sad, silence, word



Writer and Reader, Out of Sync
writer
auspicious,  positive
explaining,  unveiling,  hoping
optimist, energy, -  pessimist, lethargy
complaining,  curtailing,  groping
suspicious,  negative
reader


January 12, 2023

I added a bit of rhyme...

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Categories: 11th grade, word play,

Premium Member Likeness Ssenekil: Part 2
*Image of Many Meanings by KWC.

Likeness ssenekiL: Part 2

(HOMONYMS: Homophones & Homographs)

The batter's foul ball killed a fowl that later caused a foul odor.
After painting...

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© Hilo Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: word play,

Premium Member Likeness Ssenekil: Part 1
*Image of Many Meanings by KWC.

Likeness ssenekiL: Part 1

(HOMONYMS: Homophones & Homographs)

He'll heal his heel.
They sow so they sew.
His aide aid with an ade.
You saw...

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© Hilo Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: word play,

Premium Member Revelation
epipeny: realizing where you left it as your throat swells shut



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entirely contrived - January 6th is Epiphany, Insurrection Day, and who knows what else......

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© Jeff Kyser  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: word play,

Because - Version 2, Stanza 1
(this is the first verse of 10 I started in January 1997 and substantially revised in April 2010 some 12 years ago. I think it’s...

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© Neil Johns  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: word play, age, dream, fate, growth,

Premium Member Catch-Phrase
*Image of Eleanor and Franklin Roosevelt.

Catch-Phrase

TANKA
(interrupt someone who's talking)

West would say, If I
may stop you dead in your tracks
East would say, If I
may slice you...

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© Hilo Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: word play,

Premium Member Freakish Fanny
Freakish Fanny fled fine Finland
For far-fetched Formosa fields,
Forsaking fantastic fiords forever
Forfeiting flourishing forests,
Frigid fertile farmland, festivals
Forgetting feared future fighting.

written January 22, 2022...

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Categories: fun, humor, word play,

Premium Member Bread and Circuses
bread
edible, necessary
nurturing, sustaining, supporting
sourdough, wheat; big top, entertainment
laughing, clowning, applauding
nomadic, enjoyable
circuses

written January 14, 2022...

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Categories: word play,

Premium Member Loosely Cloaked
holding back
showing restraint
juggling calculated risks

his every pause
more revealing than
discourse or soliloquy

his every whisper
from depths within
divulging wrinkled corners

every show don’t tell
more touching than the last
suggestive and...

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Categories: word play, heart, longing, love, meaningful,

Premium Member A January Fulton
F   A   M   I   N   E
R   E   I   G...

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Categories: january, word play,


Book: Shattered Sighs