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Wrangled Mime: Spoonerisms

Penning wrangled mime and wared out of my skits, I’m poked in serspiration, My mind’s in fisted twits. It’s not the way I spike to leak; I’ve turned to try it down. Still I'm rilled with florious grime, so nothing dings me brown. We poets are a lazy crot, voiling with turds and worse. Roping with the fools of corm, dinditions so reverse. A hong lot toke in the sub might dude me a girl of wood. Or how about a bun at the reach? Well, I can’t wet a gay, but I should.

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Timothy Hicks

Date: 3/30/2016 11:02:00 AM

Yay! I knew this would do well ... one of my favorites. Congrats on your winning verse, Mark!

Mark Peterson
Date: 3/30/2016 1:44:00 PM

Gosh, thanks Timothy for coming back to offer praise, which delights me. Especially so for having come from you, whose poetry I so greatly admire.

Dr. Upma A. Sharma

Date: 3/29/2016 2:41:00 AM

Congrats on ur awesome winning write dear Mark..

Mark Peterson
Date: 3/30/2016 1:45:00 PM

Dr. Upma, you have always been so attentive to the work of poets and to me in particular. I look forward to visiting your page soon to help balance the scales.

Laura Leiser

Date: 3/28/2016 10:17:00 PM

Very funny poem, Mark! Congrats on your win:)

Mark Peterson
Date: 3/28/2016 11:40:00 PM

Laura, thanks so much for taking notice. I appreciate your visit here.

Andrea Dietrich

Date: 3/28/2016 8:39:00 PM

hey way to go!!! Yayyy for us! Congrats, MArk.

Mark Peterson
Date: 3/28/2016 11:41:00 PM

What more can I say. My tang is tongueled, and my merds are all wixxed up.

Roy Jerden

Date: 3/28/2016 7:22:00 PM

Good job, Mark. Your spoonerisms mixing up phonemes in three words instead of the usual two and reversing the final phonemes in one case was quite creative, but required aight a quit of burk to tongue anal, if you me what I seen. Congratulations!

Mark Peterson
Date: 3/28/2016 7:28:00 PM

Well I needed a tint or hue to dumb as car as I fid. It was a lot of fun, and I'm glad you hosted it. I know about twenty little stories whose punch line involves a spoonerism. I'll send you a few soup mail.

Joseph May

Date: 3/28/2016 6:36:00 PM

Congrats on a great win Mark

Mark Peterson
Date: 3/28/2016 6:55:00 PM

Joseph, many thanks for taking notice.

Jan Allison

Date: 3/28/2016 4:54:00 PM

so so funny mark great to read this again - many congrats:-) hugs jan xx

Mark Peterson
Date: 3/28/2016 7:03:00 PM

Oh, Jan, you're such a pal to come by again. I see you had a nice placement too. Yours was hilarious, and I'll get by to see it again.

Andrea Dietrich

Date: 3/27/2016 6:24:00 PM

Don't worry (what you said to me below) I did one and the words go right out of my memory!!

Mark Peterson
Date: 3/27/2016 8:03:00 PM

I'm glow sad to hear that. Yours is a terrific poem!

Timothy Hicks

Date: 3/18/2016 1:18:00 AM

Oh my! These are Great Mark! You totally excelled in these spoonerisms ... girl of wood ... wet a gay? Awesome humor. I wrote for this challenge but went a different direction, and was a lot shorter. Yours was 10x funnier though .... deserves a win, in my opinion!

Mark Peterson
Date: 3/20/2016 7:04:00 PM

Thanks, Timothy. I did see yours briefly when I was searching around to see what competition I faced. Yours is definitely a different take, but that's kind of how your poetry is too. Thanks for reading mine. Good luck to both of us.

Jan Allison

Date: 3/17/2016 7:46:00 PM

Oh Mark this is hilarious I will have to be so careful not to get my turds mixed with words lol:-) i wanted to use 'shining wit' in my poem .... but thought better of it as i don't want my poem to get pulled lol:-) hugs jan xx7

Mark Peterson
Date: 3/17/2016 8:19:00 PM

Well things would be curse. Like being committed to a Spooner's home where they only used knives and forks. What fun. Thanks, Jan!

Andrea Dietrich

Date: 3/17/2016 6:57:00 PM

haha, wet a gay and turds and verse. those were the best. I can't wait to try this contest. I just keep putting it off though!!

Mark Peterson
Date: 3/17/2016 7:32:00 PM

I'm actually afraid the government will ban them, and when you've been at it an hour or so, you really wish they would. Seriously, you should try one, but be prepared to have speech then resound in your mind this way. Kind of like the song that keeps repeating in your head. Anyway, thanks, Andrea.

Vladislav Raven

Date: 3/17/2016 4:06:00 PM

Hi Mark, sounds, reads and looks like what is wanted. An excellent work. It isn't easy to do and you have pulled it off. You can never tell how the judge will see it but so far, positive comments and mine does join in. I really got a good laugh with this one Mark, i am starting to worry though, i understood the piece right off. This is hard to do so it gets a seven from me Mark. Well done on your Spoonerism....Vlad.

Mark Peterson
Date: 3/17/2016 7:37:00 PM

Great Scott Vlad! Thanks for coming to give it a try. I won't deny they're challenging, especially when the transposed syllables yield real words. Then add rhyme besides. Kind of fun when it's done—especially when folks give nice comments like you.