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 Very Long Poem
When Flowers Wake Each Morning
Making Cakes
Hap-the-Happy-Hyphenator
im rlly gd @ txting
Today I Touched the Buffalobster
Christmas Cat
Examine any Fire Hydrant
Brody the Emoticon
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
My Mother Was a Hippie
Mrs. DeBuss
My Hare Is Resting on My Head
Arthur the Artist