Metaphor Word Play Poems
These Metaphor Word Play poems are examples of Word Play poems about Metaphor. These are the best examples of Word Play Metaphor poems written by international poets.
RiddlesRiddles
Riddle me this Batman:
what is the middle of a fat man?
Is there anything clean
about a garbage can?
If two can dance
can Toucan Sam?
Is beige the same...
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Categories:
word play, 10th grade, deep, humor,
On PointPith is pithier than pithy
-it’s not a question of if.
You know atoms are tiny
when you get at ‘em.
Sometimes they’re the point.
Meanings have layers
like lasagna.
Two or...
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Categories:
word play, 12th grade, allusion, body,
Tongue-Tied Dispatches
In the realm of self-interest, a curious soul,
Could not adhere stamps, sans wit owning a role.
His tongue, like a rover in arid terrain,
Lingered...
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Categories:
fun, word play,
Million Everests
If love is a gamble,
I wouldn't shy away to risk shedding
yellowing pages of my soul,
to grow souvenir sunflowers in your yearning soul.
As I can't...
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Categories:
word play, devotion, feelings, love, metaphor,
The TimeYou are so quiet,
Your appetite doesn't clash with your sight,
Your wisdom doesn't match your boredom,
It is no longer your freedom.
Your absolutism is the snowball,
Your...
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Categories:
word play, character, life, metaphor, perspective,
FaeIt's straightforward enough to be the Cheshire Cat grinning.
A stroll in the park to smile when you're winning.
But when you find yourself irked...
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Categories:
word play, analogy, character, language, metaphor,
A NightmareErwin’s orange tabby isn’t dead.
You must open the box,
Coax it to come out.
Stroke its poor neglected head.
Ivan was a good boy,
Yet he took a...
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Categories:
word play, allusion, angst, dream, introspection,
NothingI 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,
Miguel Cervantes RevisitedWhirrrrrrrr went the wwwwwwindmills
as the sworrrrrrrrds sliced the airrrrrrrrrr
Climate change grrrrrrrrrrroaned
as the...
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Categories:
word play, extended metaphor, fantasy, giggle,
Sunny Side Upall-around good egg
proud Waffle House novelist ...
hatching scrambled plots
11/20/2022
Poetry form: Senryu
Mark Toney © 2022
Graphic design by Mark Toney using CanvaPro...
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Categories:
humorous, metaphor, word play,
Dating PoetryImage Gene met a four
but Sima Lee he still a doored...
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Categories:
word play, image, metaphor, poetry, simile,
VenomousVENOMOUS…
Snakes have their venom;
So do works of injustice:
Both bite with poison:-...
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Categories:
word play, allegory, analogy, life, metaphor,
Goosebumped In Early FallWhew, today’s unexpected chilled wind
Made a mockery out of both spring
And fall in their changing off the guard-like
Waning and waxing in the rhythmic circadian
Nature of...
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Categories:
word play, allegory, cool, imagery, irony,
On the Salutations of Ginsberg To Pessoa and Pessoa's Alvaro To WhitmanEvery time I read Pessoa I think
I'm better than he is
Salutations to Fernando Pessoa-Alan Ginsberg
Me, the monocled one, with my foppish belted...
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Categories:
word play, appreciation, poetry, tribute, word
Moon TuningPeeping down through
the closed blind,
reflecting moon spy-tease
the created mind;
manipulating the running
of ebony-hued time,
trying to canvas a poem
with lines that rhyme.
Now if you knew how to...
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Categories:
word play, allegory, hate, inspiration, metaphor,