Welcome to Wonderful Wordplay Wednesday!
2012-05-08 at 11:58 pm
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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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WoW Awesome blog..Love the graphics and 3rd W..Like always creative, clever you are
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Scotorum Reply:
May 9th, 2012 at 12:29 am
Hi Diane! I’m glad that you could stay up late tonight until I got this sucker posted!
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di710smiles Reply:
May 9th, 2012 at 12:31 am
Giggle
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GabiPitt Reply:
May 9th, 2012 at 3:37 am
Hi Bob! Ellie asked me to let U know that she can’t access or see any of yr blogs. She was trying to contact U cause of her Wednesday blog, but didn’t get any reply yet. Please get back to her or me as soon as possible…Thanx Gabi…by the way…Great blog!…love all those formats…
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Scotorum Reply:
May 9th, 2012 at 9:49 am
I sent Ellie a note. thanks Gabi.
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GabiPitt Reply:
May 10th, 2012 at 6:46 am
Thanx so much Bob!
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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…
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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.
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di710smiles Reply:
May 9th, 2012 at 12:39 am
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Scotorum Reply:
May 9th, 2012 at 12:45 am
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Angel Love Reply:
May 9th, 2012 at 1:15 am
Just what my brain needed at this late hour! Great write!
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Scotorum Reply:
May 9th, 2012 at 1:19 am
LOL a brain twister -- thanks AL!
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Silver Reply:
May 9th, 2012 at 8:07 pm
WOWZA BOB! Too Tired to look at the dictionary…. LOL
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Scotorum Reply:
May 9th, 2012 at 8:13 pm
But you know the meaning of all of them already,don’t you, Miss Harvey?
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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
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Scotorum Reply:
May 9th, 2012 at 12:47 am
LOL a subject dear to your heart Diane -- fun and funny, there is no right or wrong to wordplay, it’s whatever amuses the writer and the reader!
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Angel Love Reply:
May 9th, 2012 at 1:16 am
Too funny, Diane! Something you certainly know all about!
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Silver Reply:
May 9th, 2012 at 8:08 pm
Awww….sweet boy……love the write Diane…
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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.
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Angel Love Reply:
May 9th, 2012 at 1:21 am
This is great…love how you did it!
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Scotorum Reply:
May 9th, 2012 at 1:29 am
Wordplaying is fun! Thanks AL!
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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
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Scotorum Reply:
May 9th, 2012 at 1:30 am
Aw that’s so sweet and cute and a fine Acrostic! G’Night AL!
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Angel Love Reply:
May 9th, 2012 at 3:46 pm
Heehee…hope you had a great one, also!
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Silver Reply:
May 9th, 2012 at 8:09 pm
I was sleeping during this one…hehehe…love this Angel Love…..
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Wonderful fun and blog and theme and challenge. Great pieces posted!
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CreativePoetryCorral Reply:
May 9th, 2012 at 2:16 pm
Hi Barbara! Good to see you this fine day.
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Strong
Intelligent
Loyal
Easy going
Natural
Tantalizing
Woman
I am
Love and
Devotion
Full of
Life
Over protective but
Wise
Eager to
Run free
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wildfire1 Reply:
May 9th, 2012 at 3:39 pm
SILENT WILD FLOWER IS SPELLS
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Angel Love Reply:
May 9th, 2012 at 3:47 pm
Love it, Wildfire!
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Scotorum Reply:
May 9th, 2012 at 4:29 pm
Wow a super Acrostic wild!
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Silver Reply:
May 9th, 2012 at 8:10 pm
BEAUTIFUL and POWERFUL Wildfire…..
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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
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Silver Reply:
May 9th, 2012 at 8:11 pm
Witchin!
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Another bewitching Acrostic!
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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
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Silver Reply:
May 9th, 2012 at 8:50 pm
Three???? heheheh….So romantic Bob…….
are you sure these are just pyramids???? LOL
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Huhmmmmm guess I miss sum fun .. Didnt know waz here till now and awesome Blog this be …. Sorry miss .. Hugs Now
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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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