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Language Poems | Examples of Language Poetry

Language Poems - Examples of all types of language poetry to share and read. This list of language poems is composed of the works of modern poets on PoetrySoup. Read short, long, best, and famous examples of language poetry. This list of works about language is an excellent resource for examples on how to write language poems.
Premium Member Smoke It Out
A Mary Juana wanna marijuana merry marry Wanna...Read the rest...
Categories: language, meaningful, relationship, word
Form: Monoku



Premium Member Crystal-clarity
If what was becomes what is becoming what was becomes what is...Read the rest...
Categories: future, language, light, today,
Form: Monoku
Mind Blowing
Playing your fingers On keyboard is mind blowing Heart rhyming the soul....Read the rest...
Categories: heart, language, motivation, music,
Form: Haiku
Summer’s return
Summer- embraced, like a returning friend- from a distant land. Here warmth descends- here, she’s standing at the green fence. Listen- Summer’s chipping off her snack- rain and leaves crunched, with the cracks, incessantly- stirring a...Read the rest...
Categories: language, desire, dream, emotions, feelings,
Form: Free verse
Language
Language not a gap Learn by adapting to it Bridge to any race....Read the rest...
Categories: culture, engagement, language, race,
Form: Haiku



Babel
Do you believe in faith, enough to have faith in your belief? Do you know enough to know that you do not know sufficient? Do you listen or merely talk? Are there really several radios on the table - all saying...Read the rest...
Categories: conflict, emotions, language, mental
Form: Free verse
The Professional
Sports Wresting They sought a style of wrestling Something legend were made of Crisp moves showing each combatants Abilities Move for move Move and counter move Submttive and non submissive Contestive rule enforced grappling Blow for blow showing ahworld each Competitors stance Allowing to...Read the rest...
Categories: analogy, engagement, integrity, language,
Form: Bio
Premium Member The Magic of Music
The Magic of Music Bring to mind your favorite song. How does it make you feel? Where do those feelings originate in your physical body? Think about the lyrics,...Read the rest...
Categories: emotions, inspiration, language, magic,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Silence is Golden
Witness the folly of the yammering crowd Those that speak smugly and those that speak loud Spitting out syllables the live long day With nothing to show and nothing to say A chorus line of mechanical mouths A bevy of...Read the rest...
Categories: language,
Form: Rhyme
Since English language my mother tongue, no surprise
Since English language my mother tongue, no surprise... etymology encurtains, encompasses, and encapsulates healthy fixation why I can spend countless hours engrossed with printed material courtesy select magazines or books, plus aiming to craft satisfactory poems or prose as an avocation to share...Read the rest...
Categories: language, addiction, analogy, books, dream,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Alphabet Soup
Are for R and Pee for P Em for M and D for Dem T for Two and Toe and Tim G...Read the rest...
Categories: fun, language, love,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Call Me What You Will
Hideous heathen heretic! Dangerous deadly derelict! Blasphemous bellowing bunk! Scandalous scheming skunk! Rambunctious riotous rascal! Devious as Eddie Haskell! Cancerous countywide curse! That's ok, I've been called worse....Read the rest...
Categories: language,
Form: Rhyme
The Lingo
Lawyers have a lingo That’s like gibberish to me. The same is true for those who have A medical degree. I guess with any specialty, The lingo is unique And understood by colleagues, Yet to others sounds like Greek. When language is exclusive, It’s...Read the rest...
Categories: language,
Form: Rhyme
Thought I'd wite a song for you coloratura
Inspired by fiction nevermind the details I wrote a song I thought you'd want to hear ah song all without controversy sumthang pleasant to hear sumthang to sing to your lover so they'll know you are sincere ah sweet sweet simple tune everyone would like to hear I just thought I'd write a...Read the rest...
Categories: culture, dance, film, language,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Put Your Best Foot Forward
Lately when I speak I put my foot in my mouth It's hard on my shoes...Read the rest...
Categories: language,
Form: Haiku

Specific Types of Language Poems

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