Tag: poetry play on words
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June 10, 2007 01:17 AM EDT --
PARson, hear me
I don’t come to sPAR
I come to listen, PARtake
And hear what you imPARt.
I’m not a meek little sPARrow
To look up at your PARapet
Blindly swallowing
And dancing on your PARquet. . . .
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July 17, 2007 05:09 PM EDT --
I’ve mown down the weeds or should I say
The brown patches of parched grass
That have so ill spoken of the sun’s rays.
The downtrodden perennials once having proudly displayed
Nature’s . . .
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November 06, 2007 06:11 PM EST --
Embr ace d infinite horizon
F ac e d towards the sky and Wobbling
We tr ace d that he is
like an ace in Gobbling
. . .
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November 23, 2007 12:20 AM EST --
Okay, here it is, it's judgment day
I have to d o judging,
with some trepidation
on those with whom I usually play
. . .
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June 18, 2007 10:49 PM EDT --
“Sailing Ships”
The sailing ships at sea
Hail from every nation.
Tailwinds guide their journeys
Detailing their salvation.
Gaily colored . . .
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October 04, 2007 02:52 AM EDT --
You’ve beckoned with your baritone
And dishonestly crooned
An onerous poisoner
With crossbones festooned
You pardoned your prisoner briefly
And teased and postponed
But you’re a seasoned practitioner; . . .
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June 10, 2007 10:21 PM EDT --
“Particular Memories”
Particular memories jolt our senses,
Like Parker House rolls and white picket fences.
Tall parfait glasses with short, rounded stems
And sparkling stones that . . .
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July 08, 2007 09:39 PM EDT --
“Persistent Asperity”
Percussive hail permeates my senses
As it daunts with persistent asperity.
Its all-pervading attempts to insult ~
I perceive with perfect . . .
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October 18, 2007 09:05 PM EDT --
Courtesy Encarta ® World English Dictionary:
*paranomasia; pun: a play on words, especially a pun [Late 16th century. Via Latin from, ultimately, Greek paronomazein , literally “to name differently,” . . .
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October 25, 2007 01:40 PM EDT --
Welcome Poetry Play on Words members and anyone who should happen on this poem.
" One of . . .
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July 04, 2008 02:24 PM EDT --
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June 04, 2007 05:04 PM EDT --
Particular…
Drop the ‘p’ and you have articular
Give it back and you have particular
Art will be found in the lead with particular
But art’s not in sight with the word . . .
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June 12, 2007 01:11 PM EDT --
"Departure"
She waits for him in the lush parterre
As she parts then plaits her long blond hair;
Balms the parch on her dry, full lips…
Then parrots his words of rhetorical . . .
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June 28, 2007 06:03 PM EDT --
“These hie words have thoroughly taxed my brain …
in ways that may have made me insane!”
by Autumn Farrington
Insane…for wishing for more of . . .
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July 10, 2007 08:40 PM EDT --
A perfect imperfect
is what I am,
with perpetual dreams
and peripheral vision.
A person of perverted . . .
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September 19, 2007 12:48 AM EDT --
Avowed suitor of mine so dear
Hath overpowered my father’s sneer
Now allowed to court my hand
Each days’ flower is more grand
On Monday a bellflower he did send
A cupflower next . . .
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October 14, 2007 03:12 PM EDT --
Photographs in the scrapbook
Putting me in jeopardy
A parade of parties and faces
Happy parents, bouncing babies
I’ll wrap this away
Because I’m paranoid you see
I’m unprepared for the . . .
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November 20, 2007 04:58 PM EST --
I don’t recom men d men ,
to com men t on wo men ’s tempera men t,
when fire men are summoned,
to extinguish heat flashes,
hot enough to make Bogy men think,
they’ve . . .
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December 16, 2007 03:06 AM EST --
I was cap tivated by his charm when I met him
With a cap acious cap acity for love
I fell cap tive to his blue eyes
Ines cap able; with my mad cap desire
With young cap rice
I cap sized . . .
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March 14, 2008 11:26 AM EDT --
Can Love Be Rediscovered
I'm so ti red of putting in more
than what should be requi red
to make our relationship work
but lately I'm so uninspi red
the love I have for . . .
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