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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epigrams 6

These are humorous epigrams: puns, wordplay, quips, zingers, japes, jests, gags, giggles, one-liners, irony, etc.
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Useful idiots
All around.
And they failed to
Understand me.
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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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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 is only superseded by foresight,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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Accomplished verse must whizZ
Zestfully forwards as imagination's fleA
Bites author's itchy fingers. Cells greY
Yearn to coin expressions. Gift of gaB
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This tale describes how Israelites all grumbled
at God and Moses in the wilderness.
Although they all by biting snakes were humbled,
God cured them by a magical process
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As gifts to Solomon the Sheban Queen
brought lavish presents, Cushite gold
and precious stones and incense, clearly keen
to prove that she would not withhold
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I like to play tricks with words,
Because they feel so much better than

The tricks I played with you.
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ALPHABET ARTISTRY
Able acrostic artist’s alignment adds air.
Alliteration asks acknowledgement aware,
Bard’s brain bequeaths benchmark billet, blends braid bans blare,
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XYLOPHONIC RESONANCE HE LICKS ENIGMATIC
Kindly refer to notes. and see Temptations and Poetic Pizza Extravaganza below :)

Xylophonic Resonance
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Wondrous whirling worlds of words
Wander away.
Smooth musical tunes from the Muses melt my mind
And make my heart go boom.
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The uneaten satsumas
sat there all day

as we played
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Some write for glory and for fame.
I write because I am obsessed
and wordplay is my favourite game.
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In evening I need
to speak with my small voice
to fill my dreams with moon.
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He says he doesn't feel like working today.
It's just as well. Here in the shade
Behind the house, protected from street noises,
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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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A challenge is impending
An urge to prove, or improve
The zest to grow, n' not just pretending;
Or best to stick to lies
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By the sticks and stones I pray. Through my blood and bones I behold. Within the center of the circle. I am within I am. Source within me guides my soul. My body only that which has a beginning and an end. My physical consciousness is essential. For it is that which I am in this world. I am not a field of flowers. But i am a blade of grass. I gently catch the dew of dusk, offering it to the new day sun at the very top of my pointed crown. In the center of the circle I am fire. Earth. Air. Water. Spirit is the nature of the divine through which I devour the moonlight and transcend the stars. To uphold righteous creation in its midst between the veil and heaven where we all stand loyal to the throne of the divine. This by the sticks and stones. Is wordplay. This by my blood and bones. Is poetry. This without a doubt ends with nothing. But something deep within says something.what do you believe.
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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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