poetic device: Wordplay

Wordplay in poetry just means playing with language. It might mean inventing new words, using punctuation in unusual ways, or replacing letters with numbers. It might mean writing sentences backward, overusing alliterations, or including tons of puns.

I love wordplay in poetry, so I have written many, many poems that use some form of wordplay, including all of these.

My Legs Both Understand Me
My Kitten Had an Accident
Swimming Ool
My Smelly Telephone by Kenn Nesbitt
My Smelly Telephone
Five Sense Nonsense
How Not to Cook by Kenn Nesbitt
How Not to Cook
Today I Have a Toothache by Kenn Nesbitt
Today I Have a Toothache
It's a Farmer's Job to Farm by Kenn Nesbitt
It’s a Farmer’s Job to Farm
Toucan Can-Can by Kenn Nesbitt
Toucan Can-Can
Maine Event
To B or Not to B
An Oyster Celebration by Kenn Nesbitt
An Oyster Celebration
When Chemists Die They Barium by Kenn Nesbitt
When Chemists Die, They Barium
My Brother's Insistent by Kenn Nesbitt
My Brother’s Insistent
Lefty the Lifter poem by Kenn Nesbitt
Lefty the Lifter
Speak When This Way Talk Do I
The Llama and the Aardvark
Pelican
I'b God a Code by Kenn Nesbitt
I’b God a Code
Juan and Tu by Kenn Nesbitt
Juan and Tu
My Frog Was in an Accident by Kenn Nesbitt
My Frog Was in an Accident
Alphabet Break by Kenn Nesbitt
Alphabet Break
My Sheep Is Being Sheepish
Zzzzz by Kenn Nesbitt
Zzzzz

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