Welcome to Wonderful Wordplay Wednesday!

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This Wonderful Wednesday we thought we’d add a third W and make it Wonderful Wordplay Wednesday!

Wordplay is any fun and amusing use of language to create an effect or say something in a different way. Probably the best known form of wordplay is alliteration, where you run words which start with the same letter, such as the famous “Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.”

Another type of wordplay is the tongue twister, which often uses the similarity in the sounds of words and/or words which are hard to pronounce in order without tending to make a speaking error, such as “She sells sea shells by the seashore.”

Some formats of poetry rely on sorts of wordplay, such as the Acrostic where the poet writes a poem in which the first letter of each line spells out a related word when read vertically.

There is also the Palindrome, in which the words in one or more lines are reversed and the whole still reads sensibly as a statement.

The possibilities are endless, but makes for a fun challenge and can generate a fine sense of accomplishment when you succeed!

Let your muse loose and see what wordplay appears!

Be sure to read and comment playfully on the other posted creations, and leave a heart at the top of this blog if you enjoyed yourself or plan to! -Bob/Scotorum

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38 Comments

  • di710smiles says:

    WoW Awesome blog..Love the graphics and 3rd W..Like always creative, clever you are 😉 :love: :love: :love: :love: 🙂

  • Scotorum says:

    Here’s an attempt at a wordplay write I did in 2007. It is what it is LOL

    THE WAYS OF THE WORLD

    No quotient exceeds infinity.

    However…

    The sentient perceive reality.
    The penitent receive divinity.
    The defiant upheave continuity.
    The trenchant deceive society.

    No saint disseminates depravity.

    However…

    The innocent obviate veracity.
    The valiant negate iniquity.
    The compliant inculcate passivity.
    The violent fractionate domesticity.

    A complaint dissipates satiety.
    As helium violates gravity.

    No miscreant upbraids duplicity.

    However…
    .
    The deviant pervade diversity.
    A client concedes some liberty.
    A transient evades captivity.

    And just when I think I have it made,

    A giant invades my cavity.

  • di710smiles says:

    This is it..different, crazy and not sure if right but,..hummm did it 🙄 😳

    Toddler had trouble with potty
    Unable to wipe poopy felt hotty
    He moved wildly
    With an ordor not mildly
    Wanting to get up proudly
    But , the room was cloudy
    While waiting he feel asleep snoring loudly

  • Scotorum says:

    This was my first Palindrome, from 2007 when I began writing poetry again after a forty year hiatus. I did it the easy way, with easily reversible one and two word phrases. It attempted to express disappointment in a situation which had developed with an online friend. The reverse part reflected hope that things would change for the better.

    Crap

    Ambition
    overriding affection
    quietly growing
    subtly spreading
    achievment hastening
    also causing
    corrosion and infection
    disappointment and depression;
    corruption overcoming
    integrity and friendship.
    *Crap*
    Friendship and integrity
    overcoming corruption
    depression and disappointment
    infection and corrosion;
    causing also
    hastening achievement
    spreading subtly
    growing quietly
    affection overriding
    ambition.

  • Angel Love says:

    Great blog you got together, Bob! Late for me to think…so I’ll just say good night! 🙂

    G oing to bed

    O h how I long

    O nly for sleep

    D reams to come

    N ever too late

    I n the day

    G ood night

    H ello sleep

    T ill tomorrow 😉 😆 :love:

  • Barbara_K says:

    Wonderful fun and blog and theme and challenge. Great pieces posted!

  • wildfire1 says:

    Strong
    Intelligent
    Loyal
    Easy going
    Natural
    Tantalizing
    Woman
    I am
    Love and
    Devotion
    Full of
    Life
    Over protective but
    Wise
    Eager to
    Run free

  • wildfire1 says:

    TO CAST A SPELL
    OBEY THE WITCHS LAWS.
    BEWITCH
    ELEMENTAL MAGICK
    A WITCHS HEART
    WITCH
    IN PERFERT LOVE AND PERFECT TRUST.
    THE SUPPER NATURAL
    CHIMES AND TAILS MAN
    HELPING THE WORLD AND LAND.
    THIS SPELLS TO BE A WITCH

  • Scotorum says:

    Another bewitching Acrostic! 😯 :love:

  • Scotorum says:

    Like Building the Pyramids of Egypt

    I
    I desire
    I desire your love
    I desire your love more
    I desire your love more than
    I desire your love more than you.
    I desire your love more than you know.
    I need you to be my own true love
    I need you to be my own. True!
    I need you to be my own.
    I need you to be
    I need you.
    I need.
    I

    You?
    You wanna?
    You wanna come?
    You wanna come over?
    You wanna come over and play?
    You wanna come over and play in?
    You wanna come over and play in my yard?
    You came to me when I needed you most.
    You came to me when I needed you.
    You came to me when I needed.
    You came to me.
    You came to.
    You came.
    You.

    We.
    We?  Never!
    ..We never thought.
    We never thought “we.”
    We never thought we could.
    We never thought we could be.
    We never thought we could be this.
    We never thought we could be this happy!
    We always knew we would be together.
    We always knew we would be.
    We always knew we would.
    We always knew: “we.”
    We always knew.
    We.  Always.
    We

    RGD 2007

  • Bettie says:

    Huhmmmmm guess I miss sum fun .. Didnt know waz here till now and awesome Blog this be …. Sorry miss .. Hugs Now :love: :love:

  • Bettie says:

    WORD PLAY FUN FUN

    S – ome times I miss

    O – ut on whats goin on

    M – ost times um on time

    E – ever now an again I miss the ride

    I – eye

    L – ove word play

    O- h how easy it is to play

    V – ery seldom make miss stake wit this

    E – ven it you try

    Written By: Bettie Davis ———————– © May o9 , 2o12

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