The Tongue Twister

"It's a twister!" - For the "Twist it Twisted" contest

 

An ode in homage to the simple Tongue Twister that has brought joy and laughter to so many.  You'll find the words of six well-known Tongue Twisters among these lines.  May you enjoy them and remember the fun you had with them in times past.  - Rick

 

The Tongue Twister

 

When rubber buggy bumpers bump

When she sells all her seaside shells

Then lips long locked laugh lusciously

For frown from face falls finally

 

When pecks of pickles Peter picks

When woodchuck chucks the wood he could

Then thrice three times the tongue takes twist

And merry mirth marrow shan't miss!

 

For this diversion I do thank

The black boot brought by bootblack back

And fat frogs flying past so fast

For with a twister grief can’t last

 

 

©2009 Richard Puetter

All rights reserved

 

 

 

Reviews

[emmajoy]

Really enjoyed being reminded of those tongue twisters I had fun with when I was 'ickle'! Think you have nine here?

Beautifully put together and truly fun .. something that's often missing in poetry. Thank you, thank you for the smiles - and yes, I tried to say them!

(The illustration is ideal!)

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[Shalini Dinesh (Poet's ..]

Wow really enjoyed the writes, I had to slowly read it to read better, lol, that was fun reading your work...... She sells sea shells on the sea shore, never have I said it properly...

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[bonbon7810]

So creative, it's fun and youthful, I love it!

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[Murtuza]

You've tied me in knots! This is a great piece and quite fun. I like the way you've meshed the twists together to make a collage of tongue twisters.

Keep the ink flowing!

Murtuza
:)

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[Gilad Levanon]

Love it.

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[Adam M. Snow]

This is very good

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[Globy]

great writing! And the picture matches the words 100%
well don!

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[Dinesh Sairam]

Woah, 17470 views and only 19 reviews? I guess you really got the readers twisted there. I used to love tongue twisters too and so, I love this poem :) My personal opinion, the best short tongue twister I ever bumped into was :

A right-handed guy named Wright, was always right. But in writing 'write', he always wrote 'right'. And where he meant to write 'right' he wrote 'wrought', righting 'right'.

This maybe a tad easy now. But in my younger days, this used to always get me, lol. Beat that! :)

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[Inci]

nice poem..haha! a tribute to tongue twisters

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[zwmorris]

This was fun and interesting, i liked it.

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[FlawedByDesign]

hehe - I enjoyed this very much; a real tongue twister. Love the way you incorporated the tongue twisters of old and made them new again.

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