Why do I always watch my birds?
I know that statement sounds absurd
but today I reached an all-lime toe
when I received a blushing crow.
It’s wetting gorse – and here’s the crunch:
my conversation packs a lunch.
I’m not sure when all this began
but I think I need a plaster man
to help me when my stouth gets muck.
I should sit, perhaps, and bead a rook,
fight a liar, or flick some powers.
No, I think I’ll go and shake a tower.
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The Reverend William Archibald Spooner was born on this day in 1844. He’s remembered today for his unfortunate habit of getting his words muddled up. Happy Spoonerism Day to all those who belly crate.
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I spoon loverisms!
Thank you for keeping the memory of Mr Spooner alive and kicking!
How can I thank you, Bister Milston,For pitty woems ike the loneYou tent to me so day?I know: I’ll sponor Hooner,A man I knever new about Until too old me of gis hiftOf shanguage lift….–Gesendet mit der GMX Mail App
brilliant. Pimply Sabulous~
And for those readers travelling BC’s Vancouver Island, there’s even a coffee emporium to help you celebrate in style, (if not decorum): https://foggdukkers.com/
Love it!
Brian…deepest south salutations from the far flung wop wops..the land of lengthy cumulus curiosities
Your ode to the mother load prism of spoonerism hedonism…..comedy communism….pluck for the lyricism of mistakes..where luck makes a criticism…a witticism…..Liza Tarbuck’s what’s up chuck truism…which delightfully defies the schism of dogmatism..
Sorry about that..but do doff me hat…the quirk of your work…was a perk…gave me a smirk..after another berserk….couldn’t be dafter week..
Don’t know if you are fan of Test Cricket…the shiniest baubles of all my foibles…couldn’t find any poems of yours about the most glorious sort of my beloved sport…if you have done any, would love to have a butchers..
Apologies of a profuse persuasion but do some cricket ditties….been loving the needle and niggle this summer..
https://www.poetrysoup.com/me/Tobes
Also spoken word prose for a few of those fellow tragic badger bros…apropos everything Test cricket..
Can’t do a link – my YouTube channel is “Test Match Troubadour”..
Hope you don’t mind me asking and sharing..cheers
Ta
Toby
Hi Toby, thanks for your very counter-breviloquent message. As for poems about cricket, I’m afraid I’ve never really written anything beyond this small piece of Beatles-based silliness a few years ago for an Ashes series:
Bairstow, Border, Boon and Botham,
Bradman, Broad and Brearley:
Speaking words of Wisden,
Letter B.