This free verse poem is full of word play, metaphors and strong verbs. I usually prefer to write with rhyme and rhythm but this is one of those occasions when I felt that free verse would be better as it gave so much freedom to play with words that have two different meanings.
WORD PLAY
If you are unsure what word play is, look at the TEACHERS PAGE, FIGURATIVE WRITING, WORD PLAY for details, and have some fun with the WORD PLAY JOKES GAME, and the NEWSPAPER WORD PLAY GAME. A very basic definition is that word play is a play on words which can be used to infer two different meanings, often with a funny effect. Therefore, it is often used in jokes and in newspaper headlines etc.
Some of my poems include word play, and these are therefore listed together below, although they may only have a small amount of word play along with using other figurative writing techniques. As far as possible, I have provided a description with each poem to give an indication as to how much word play features within it, as they will vary in usefulness when teaching (or learning) word play specifically as a figurative writing skill.