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
Five Sense Nonsense
Today I Have a Toothache by Kenn Nesbitt
Today I Have a Toothache
Toucan Can-Can by Kenn Nesbitt
Toucan Can-Can
To B or Not to B
The Llama and the Aardvark
Backward Dan
When Chemists Die They Barium by Kenn Nesbitt
When Chemists Die, They Barium
Maine Event
Juan and Tu by Kenn Nesbitt
Juan and Tu
My Brother's Insistent by Kenn Nesbitt
My Brother’s Insistent
Lefty the Lifter poem by Kenn Nesbitt
Lefty the Lifter
I'b God a Code by Kenn Nesbitt
I’b God a Code
My Sheep Is Being Sheepish
Pelican
Alphabet Break by Kenn Nesbitt
Alphabet Break
Speak When This Way Talk Do I
Zzzzz by Kenn Nesbitt
Zzzzz
The Lamps Were All Delighted by Kenn Nesbitt
The Lamps Were All Delighted
Somewhere Sometime by Kenn Nesbitt
Somewhere Sometime
The Eggs Were All Bedeviled by Kenn Nesbitt
The Eggs Were All Bedeviled
Do You C What I C?
I Think I’m Related to Bigfoot
Itches by Kenn Nesbitt
Itches