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.
Itches
Do You C What I C?
My Very Long Poem
When Flowers Wake Each Morning
Making Cakes
Hap-the-Happy-Hyphenator
im rlly gd @ txting
The Lamps Were All Delighted
Examine any Fire Hydrant
Today I Touched the Buffalobster
Christmas Cat
Brody the Emoticon
This Afternoon I Met a Slark
Pitta Patta, Pitta Patta
Clippity Cloppity Bippity Boop
Lousy Catcher’s Mitt
How Did You Get So Mean?
(I’m Always in Parentheses)
My Sister Kisses Thistles
The Man From Timbuktu
Everyone’s from Somewhere Else
I Like My Triangular Kitten
What a Ham
The Setter Sweater Store