Tag: poetry play on words
member name: Barbra L.
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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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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 15, 2007 02:56 PM EDT --
Parched lips embrace the cold tin cup;
The paragon uses from which to sup.
Hungry eyes, skin of parget façade;
Partaking now of sleep’s faint nod.
Unpardonable heat from this merciless . . .
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May 23, 2007 10:18 PM EDT --
My poem is about a mighty ship and its crew who come up against a horrific storm at sea. I’ve used the term ‘tar baby’ throughout because it means a very troublesome situation, . . .
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July 03, 2007 12:47 PM EDT --
“A Stellar Tellurian”
He runs not with speed of the hoofed gazelle
Nor quells the events that signs foretell.
But his mellifluent speech shellacked . . .
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July 15, 2007 12:18 PM EDT --
Earth’s modest flower
Crowned with embroidered lace
God’s reigning Queen
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September 19, 2007 08:58 PM EDT --
“A Formidable Presence”
I skip over the freshly mowed grass and dash onto the sidewalk…
The towering trees shower autumn’s season with dappled leaves . . .
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April 19, 2007 10:10 PM EDT --
Ernie Johnson Challenge: Poetry Play on Words: Word Play with the word: CAN
The word I’ve chosen to use with the word can is:
Incandescent: it means to emit light; glowing . . .
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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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April 22, 2007 05:06 PM EDT --
My poem this week is a rhyming one about actions being weighed out by reason of suspicion and wrong ones being brought to justice.
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May 03, 2007 05:36 PM EDT --
“A Compendia of Endless Expenditures”
Bendrofluazide and other addenda
Complement today’s medicinal agenda
Of endless routines of gulping and drinking,
From a compendium of . . .
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May 11, 2007 12:14 PM EDT --
Law is not limited
to legal action
and legalized faction...
allowing for lawful commotion.
But is . . .
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June 07, 2007 07:13 PM EDT --
“A Martian From Space…”
A Martian from space has artfully raced
To the confines of my apartment!
I’ve yet to surmise what . . .
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June 05, 2007 09:28 PM EDT --
"Art"
Art defines us, confines us and sometimes refines us.
It narrows our scope, partners with hope
And kindly puts hea rtache behind us.
It partitions itself on . . .
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April 25, 2007 12:36 AM EDT --
Poets writing pentads of pentastitches
Sometimes get too big for their britches
Pentameter writing deflates them a notch;
Pen points their weakness and leaves a blotch.
Affecting their . . .
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