Wedding Word Play Poems

   ~ To be read with an Irish brogue ~

   Mary, please marry 'me merry Barry'
   'Me merry Berry,'...

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It'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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It's true that pork 'n' beans have
chunks that are winning

And Indian spiced pumpkin
sets your heart spinning

Pho bo's delightful, cod soup's disarming
jjamppong, French lentil --charming

Japanese dashi,...

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"The Road Less Traveled"

Not all roads diverge in a wood,
Some lead to places misunderstood.
They wind and twist, never straight,
Leading us to a different fate.

While others...

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Yesterday, a young lady wedded 'I do’ to 'I due'

   ~ Today, some scream, ‘Hands off my body, you!'...

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Black
satiny, ebony
dashing, unbridling, entertaining
formal tuxedo, athlete, wedding gown, chalk
snowing, swaddling, sparkling
cottony, sudsy
White


Written April 29, 2021...

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when I married Mike
I thought that our marriage would last forever
but in retrospect
I should have listened
to my dear old pa
as he walked me down the...

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THE HEIRLOOM
I lay within a drawer so long
Loneliness was my heart's song

My diamonds never saw the light of day
Since granma's death,I'd been that way

Her grandson...

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a prosaic prothalamion
with a epithalamium
sung to greet their wedding day
in rhyming roundelay-
verse and versicle
doxology
antiphon-
in plain
song...

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MY BEAUTIFUL GIRLS

Zinnia,I remember you,each day
Don't ever despair,my Petunia
Or give up,precious Lily.

Never forget,my Carnation
I'm thinking of you,my Pansy
You have my devotion,Honeysuckle.

My heartfelt love always,Myrtle 
With...

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A riddle, son of Manoah, a riddle are you
Twice came an angel to a barren Danite
Promising rest for Israel, deliverance.
Out of Zorah you came, bold...

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The theater I accomplished when I was young,
I always hoped to become a stage and screen actress.

Appeared on stage in "Our Town" to an appreciative...

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The stranger in the mirror says:
Alz is not well

Those grey hairs alzways lose twenty-something
track of time ...
can’t tell when he’s at,
where he last slept
Or how...

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"The Strict Machine"




Take a note 
pick up your sharpened quill
tap dance your screen
your mind like 
a Magpie's beak 
a Silent Epiphany
One, 
Two and
Three
a Silent Jackhammer...

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Blood
crimson
not called by
any other 
name

Bud 
perfect 
crown petal
Donald's girlfriend
bold 

Gold
sun rise
Mary's joy
orange sun sets
red

Moth
and queen
corsages
colorful blooms
large

She
naked
lilies kin
belladonna
pink 

Blue
purple
red and white
sun worshipers
pig

Quaint 
fancy 
velvet tufts
ostensible 
face

Liz
easy
popular
multicolored
shade

Dull
deadly...

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