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Puny Puns of Word Play

...
My puns are not too punny.
They are puny -
so itty-bitty that they have no bite-y.
Like tiny turtles with no turtle necks
or like selfish shellfish
offering no worthy catch,
what good are the...

Categories: spoonerisms, words, writing,
Form: Free verse

Epigrams V

...Epigrams

Autumn Conundrum
by Michael R. Burch

It’s not that every leaf must finally fall,
it’s just that we can never catch them all.

Piercing the Shell
by Michael R. Burch

If we strip...

Categories: spoonerisms, giggle, humor, humorous, irony,
Form: Epigram

Wow Me

...MEANA THE WEEVIL ITCH

In deepest hyper space, in the land of Zog,
lives a weevil itch who resides in a bog
At birth she'd been Zogletised as Gina,
but the El...

Categories: spoonerisms, fantasy, fun, humorous,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

The Toetry Pest

...I asked my mom for help finding a poem
Like Miss M said.
(A poem containing neologisms, or spoonerisms, or a pun).
But try as we might, it just couldn’t be done.
We Googled.
We Read.
There was ...

Categories: spoonerisms, humor, poetry, school, teacher,
Form: Rhyme

Be Careful When You 'Whist Your Turds'

...His teacher said he was a ‘shining wit’
Little Jimmy was SO pleased
But when he told his mum and dad…
They could not be appeased!


(Think spoonerisms)


Jan Allison
8th April 2...

Categories: spoonerisms, humorous, word play,
Form: Rhyme

Katurday Wit Mee Kat

...
Katurday and Iz plazs wit mee talky kat,

Ohs, hooman, it go away, me ballz;
Don't be stoopit, you gits itz oks,
Iz not fit under that bigz chairees.
Hay, Iz not fat, Iz jst fluffy...

Categories: spoonerisms, cat,
Form: Free verse

Lack of Pies

...They tried to tease her ears
 as she lay there hoken barted
 She'd been told a lack of pies
 And she was in a pot of lain

 So she came up with a plaster man
 to get levenge on her rover
  She...

Categories: spoonerisms, fun,
Form: Free verse

Spoon-Fed On Spoonerisms

...Hooming in the near lorizon, 
another girthday makes me bloomy
The yays, the dears are massing paster!
I am diserablly mepressed, and in a date of great sistress!
Age, you may agree, is rot fo...

Categories: spoonerisms, age, funny, old,
Form: Free verse

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 flor...

Categories: spoonerisms, humorous,
Form: Quatrain

In Sain Plight

...Alliteration is awesome;
thanks to thee
it effortlessly erases evidence
of spoonerisms.

Spooky.



Written February 29th, 2016
For the Spoonerisms Contest hosted by Roy Jerden...

Categories: spoonerisms, fun, funny, humor, humorous,
Form: Light Verse

Vodge Diper

...The day started badly as I had a bat flattery on my vodge diper

It was roaring with pain when I arrived at the par cark at the mall
Went to put my bopping in the shoot and I turned into a bow...

Categories: spoonerisms, car, humorous,
Form: Free verse

Inder the Unfluence

...
I'm just a little slort of sheep, 
I'm not drunk like thinkle peep. 
It's true: I don't know quite who is me yet, 
(The drunker I stand here the longer I get!)
So give me one more fink to drill my cup, 
'Cause I got all day sober to Sunday up.

*Inspired by "Spoonerisms"...

Categories: spoonerisms, drink, humor, wine,
Form: Couplet

The Road Behind

...The years fold into one another
like that old collapsible cup
I used to take on picnics;
memories in sepia and disappearing,
resistant, resurrected only by
a word, a sign, a sound.

It is a vaporous ...

Categories: spoonerisms, allegory,
Form: Free verse