Wordplay Poems

You’re a poet, as they say
All you write is poetically full of art
Wince when you read your stuff
As from literacy you stand apart
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Some days are meant for marshmallows
Such light and puffy stuff
Time for tossing words about
For phenomenal fun with fluff
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Bumptious
Scrumptious
Totally presumptuous.
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Atop windswept, telescope-spangled peaks,
astrophysicists interpret supernova explosions,
predicting widespread tulipmania preceding depravity.
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natty nutty nifty nuisance ne'er knows
neophyte nascent nappy naked
reeling reckless rabid rankor
ridicules radiant ravenous royal
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Insight... is only superseded by foresight,
which in truth is an out-of-the-box sight-

of thinking, brainstorming, eyes phased and sideways,
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Not immoral but immoderate
is the way that I’m designed;
no disproof come with quod erat
demonstrandum, to my mind.
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Free verse, they call it. But is it really fully free?
As language looms large like a secret-police state
Dominating, dictating, dulling unfettered thought
In unsuspended sentences of stultifying strict syntax,
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Useful idiots
All around.
And they failed to
Understand me.
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epigrams 6

These are humorous epigrams: puns, wordplay, quips, zingers, japes, jests, gags, giggles, one-liners, irony, etc.
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What makes a poem what it is and recognised as such?
Is it announcing joy or bliss, as if these count so much?
Is it a sense of savoir faire, a touch of elegance,
A precious phrase beyond compare, of perfect eloquence?
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The most important of the lot is when we take exams,
It's then we study theme or plot, and when each student crams,
To learn the structured styles of verse and rhyming schemes as well,
Perhaps reciting to rehearse as poems cast their spell.
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Wordplay: exchange of thoughts, courage, flight,
destination, pain, fear, sense question, life, get to know, risk, strangers, meet,
coffee shop, hotel, room service, fast food, beach, most beautiful sunsets, walks, hours, oldtimer, spanish towns, language barrier, god, conversations,
search, pain, no answer, lonely seagoing seagull, a lot hiking, jj_mobilphotography, honored, return flight, pain, experience, adventure, grown, comfort, I was there...and all this with: be strong without drama
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These words ring in my ears as I dream of a meaning
I'm hungry to post, have another heart taste,
such, that promise of sex might not tempt me at all!
Hark! Sharp uptake of breath from freak's mind at a phrase,
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Useful idiots
All around.
And they failed to
Understand me.
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Old Pantaloons, a Chiasmus
by Michael R. Burch

Old pantaloons are soft and white,
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How do poets get their ideas and simply write and write,
Dismissing all their doubts and fears and sharing day and night?
It doesn't matter what they've penned when editing's not done,
But this I tell you, as a friend, editing sure is fun!
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New Runny Babitt (For Tanja)

While you were writing
serious wordplay,
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