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Word Play Poems | Examples of Word Play Poetry

Word Play Poems - Examples of all types of word play poetry to share and read. This list of new poems is composed of the works of modern poets on PoetrySoup. Read short, long, best, and famous poem examples for word play.
Premium Member CHANCE POEM 061024 diversions
in    moments  of joviality of the idlyllic with exquisite  glory in private  redemption besides  fancy  or courage  to forget  achievements in matters  ...Read the rest...
Categories: word play,
Form: Other



Premium Member Just Monkin' Around
Chang Li is new to the monastery He’s a die-hard revolutionary ~ Ka-boom went the loud sound Just Chang “monkin’ around”...Read the rest...
Categories: word play, games, home, violence, word
Form: Limerick
Premium Member CHANCE s ur R ea L i Ty experiental words June 8
imitated . . marked . . ...Read the rest...
Categories: word play,
Form: Shape
Premium Member CHANCE POEM 060824 trifles
open & banal smatterings submitted weaved & stretched in gratuitoius pride of place triviality amongst the representive in decline slight impulses filtered by the established contemporary in random ...Read the rest...
Categories: word play,
Form: Other
Emotions
I, am bounded by emotions But I refuse to be reduced. Inside of me they revolve The combination, Let me mention. How much they cause confusion. When fear connects with anger I swear, I am here in the background Filled with frustration. Drowned in...Read the rest...
Categories: word play, cute love, emotions, encouraging,
Form: Epic



Why I don't like therapy
One person once asked, "Why don't you like considering therapy" and this is my answer: What I feel does not have a schedule to pop out, And I don't bottle things up until the next hour. so, please don't tell...Read the rest...
Categories: word play, dedication, emotions, encouraging, endurance,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Guess I'll Be Me
I Guess I'll Be Me Before, when I was afraid to be me, I looked at others and tried to be a copy. Mimic all their motions, repeat the same moves... Maybe then I can follow all their rules? I...Read the rest...
Categories: word play, growth, humor, identity, irony,
Form: Other
Premium Member The Dance of Dances
“Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance.” – Carl Sandburg. Glowing like the roused firefly glows, Stirring souls, poetry just knows, Love, fire, boldest winds of desire, Rains blessing, song without a choir. Words pouring out soft, gentle...Read the rest...
Categories: word play, appreciation, muse, poems, poetry,
Form: Quatern
A Reason
Wrinkled edges in my youth Flesh, proximal to the bones "solarised" Melanin, kindred to burnt sacrifice Sketched bruises, signs of storms weathered The "hour glass", a testimony of lemons through sands Stitches in pattens...Read the rest...
Categories: word play, emotions, endurance, humanity, imagery,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member CHANCE POEM 060524 enigma
too grand running around turned to absolute sounds recalled secrets painstakinly plotted &artfully ...Read the rest...
Categories: word play,
Form: Other
Premium Member Mating Dance - Newly Aromatic
Message scent, the moment met ~ a nod of her head, their future set ...Read the rest...
Categories: word play, future, romance, senses, sensual,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member inFATuating - More Cheese
American knees say pizza, please ~ with gobs and gobs of muenster cheese ...Read the rest...
Categories: word play, america, food, health, word
Form: Couplet
Unknown origins; Satire: Punch Magazine
Punch line ...Read the rest...
Categories: word play, appreciation, culture, education, history,
Form: Footle
Premium Member CHANCE POEM 060324 survival
CHANCE* POEM A one survives as therapy compulsive affection & appreciation is explained the world round this too where all is possible all that counts & the message becomes something similar freed by contrast ...Read the rest...
Categories: word play,
Form: Other
Premium Member 'Post Mortem'
After poor old Mortimer was dead by his grave ~ a flowerbed...Read the rest...
Categories: word play, beauty, flower, funeral, irony,
Form: Couplet

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