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.

Juan and Tu by Kenn Nesbitt
Juan and Tu
Somewhere Sometime by Kenn Nesbitt
Somewhere Sometime
The Eggs Were All Bedeviled by Kenn Nesbitt
The Eggs Were All Bedeviled
Do You See What I See?
Michael's Viking Bicycle by Kenn Nesbitt
Michael’s Viking Bicycle
This Afternoon I Met a Slark by Kenn Nesbitt
This Afternoon I Met a Slark
Do You C What I C?
I Think I’m Related to Bigfoot
Itches by Kenn Nesbitt
Itches
My Very Long Poem
When Flowers Wake Each Morning by Kenn Nesbitt
When Flowers Wake Each Morning
Making Cakes by Kenn Nesbitt
Making Cakes
Random Andy by Kenn Nesbitt
Random Andy
I'm Really Good at Texting by Kenn Nesbitt
im rlly gd @ txting
Hap-the-Happy-Hyphenator by Kenn Nesbitt
Hap-the-Happy-Hyphenator
The Lamps Were All Delighted by Kenn Nesbitt
The Lamps Were All Delighted
Examine any Fire Hydrant
Today I Touched the Buffalobster
Christmas Cat
Brody the Emoticon by Kenn Nesbitt
Brody the Emoticon
Pitta Patta, Pitta Patta
Pitta Patta, Pitta Patta
Clippity Cloppity Bippity Boop by Kenn Nesbitt
Clippity Cloppity Bippity Boop
I'm Always in Parentheses by Kenn Nesbitt
(I’m Always in Parentheses)
Lousy Catcher’s Mitt

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