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Loss Word Play Poems

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


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 Obviously the Light-- My SpokenWord
"Don't come to me in your spills I rather be in peace all alone
Don't come to me cold in your chills I am warm I...

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Categories: word play, adventure, analogy, appreciation, celebration,

When Money Dies - Bitcoin Poem 067
The anguish flows when money dies
Amid the child’s and mother’s cries
It comes when scarcity is lost 
And money made without a cost

Taking savings, stealing time
Open...

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Categories: word play, america, faith, freedom, future,

Premium Member Apothecary of Wordsmith Dreamscapes
My sleep is disrupted, badgered
by incessant wordplay,
a thesaurus of woolgathering
in semi-conscious dreams.
I keep a voice recorder,
bedside, to record the tidbit morsels
Lest they're forgotten
when I awaken...

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Categories: word play, dream, poetry, sleep, word

Premium Member Blinded By Life and Praying To Truly See
Blinded By Life And Praying To Truly See


Hold that thought, 
the world desperately needs you
not just your skin
your deeper schemes
nor love that hath
quietly fled your...

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Categories: word play, art, surreal, vanity, visionary,



Premium Member In the Zone of Twilight Terror
jolted out of 
a fluid fuzzy 
fragmented 
dreamscape
into the sharp
dark ruminating 
ruins of reality

(it is very late in the evening
very early in the morning)

a paralyzed...

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Categories: word play, dark, fear, lonely, night,

Premium Member Nothing
I know Nothing, and I know it well,
for it ensures that my head doesn't swell.

Nothing is something to gripe about,
it outlasts my compulsion to shout.

Nothing...

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Categories: word play, angst, anxiety, extended metaphor,

Ode To the Deprived
The sun tugs young hours, 
Wrings the day. Flowers spring,
     Pupils play,
Waitlessness on one youngling. 

Longing eyes cashed the calendar, ...

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Categories: word play, age, child, father son,

Mental Space
Being loved will help but not something that's fake and will break. I'm not sorry to say I'm here to stay. Some people may never...

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Categories: word play,

Running Out of Rhyme
I used to move as fast as cars
runways built in space and mars.
I would dart as far as I could trace 
the words moving off...

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Categories: word play, loss, lost, poetry, self,

Premium Member Cravings of a Venomous Toxin
The cunningness I feel is near:
It tries coming for a stay
Living within a beast, I once lived in
It's a bit dangerous wanting my play.

I have...

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Categories: word play, abuse, addiction, betrayal, conflict,

Graveyard Visions
To your place, pass negative noon. 
As the moon drifts over the loss...
images of a different life swimming.
In the depths of the ones fevered past.
Catching...

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Categories: word play, allegory, allusion, analogy, angel,

Premium Member Covid Update
(This poem is political satire; 
don't read if you think you may 
be offended. No truth in any of it, 
considered by many to be...

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Categories: word play, humorous, perspective, political, social,

Silence of Heaven
So red the rose a crimson divinity 
Thorns sharp cruel dangerous  
Crush the petals so gently, so soft
Thorns are long, how they prick thee

A...

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Categories: word play, allusion, analogy, anger, art,

Remembrance In Frost
In the middle of a ruined parking lot
On doors in a vacant house
ancient walls softly speak 
painted with eyes that seek 
drifting columns of moonlight
and...

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Categories: word play, allegory, dark, deep, fear,


Book: Shattered Sighs