Mark Peterson Poet Quatrain

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 March 30, 2016 at 11:02 AM Yay! I knew this would do well ... one of my favorites. Congrats on your winning verse, Mark! Mark Peterson March 30, 2016 at 1:44 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 March 29, 2016 at 2:41 AM Congrats on ur awesome winning write dear Mark.. Mark Peterson March 30, 2016 at 1:45 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 March 28, 2016 at 10:17 PM Very funny poem, Mark! Congrats on your win:) Mark Peterson March 28, 2016 at 11:40 PM Laura, thanks so much for taking notice. I appreciate your visit here.

Andrea Dietrich March 28, 2016 at 8:39 PM hey way to go!!! Yayyy for us! Congrats, MArk. Mark Peterson March 28, 2016 at 11:41 PM What more can I say. My tang is tongueled, and my merds are all wixxed up.

Roy Jerden March 28, 2016 at 7:22 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 March 28, 2016 at 7:28 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 March 28, 2016 at 6:36 PM Congrats on a great win Mark Mark Peterson March 28, 2016 at 6:55 PM Joseph, many thanks for taking notice.

Jan Allison March 28, 2016 at 4:54 PM so so funny mark great to read this again - many congrats:-) hugs jan xx Mark Peterson March 28, 2016 at 7:03 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 March 27, 2016 at 6:24 PM Don't worry (what you said to me below) I did one and the words go right out of my memory!! Mark Peterson March 27, 2016 at 8:03 PM I'm glow sad to hear that. Yours is a terrific poem!

Timothy Hicks March 18, 2016 at 1:18 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 March 20, 2016 at 7:04 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 March 17, 2016 at 7:46 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 March 17, 2016 at 8:19 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 March 17, 2016 at 6:57 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 March 17, 2016 at 7:32 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 March 17, 2016 at 4:06 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 March 17, 2016 at 7:37 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.