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 Sheep Is Being Sheepish
My Frog Was in an Accident by Kenn Nesbitt
My Frog Was in an Accident
The Eggs Were All Bedeviled by Kenn Nesbitt
The Eggs Were All Bedeviled
Somewhere Sometime by Kenn Nesbitt
Somewhere Sometime
Backward Dan
Michael's Viking Bicycle by Kenn Nesbitt
Michael’s Viking Bicycle
Triangles Make Me Feel Nervous by Kenn Nesbitt
Triangles Make Me Feel Nervous
Do You See What I See?
Do You C What I C?
This Afternoon I Met a Slark by Kenn Nesbitt
This Afternoon I Met a Slark
Itches by Kenn Nesbitt
Itches
I Think I’m Related to Bigfoot
My Very Long Poem
Random Andy by Kenn Nesbitt
Random Andy
When Flowers Wake Each Morning by Kenn Nesbitt
When Flowers Wake Each Morning
I'm Really Good at Texting by Kenn Nesbitt
im rlly gd @ txting
Making Cakes by Kenn Nesbitt
Making Cakes
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
Hap-the-Happy-Hyphenator by Kenn Nesbitt
Hap-the-Happy-Hyphenator
Pitta Patta, Pitta Patta
Pitta Patta, Pitta Patta

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