A short blurb that I spat onto the page. I'm constantly mixing up the first letters of words when I speak quickly, so I wanted to do it on purpose and maybe make it a bit witty for once. Unfinished.
I like the word play on this poem - the rhyme scheme is nicely done, bull dog/dull bog, sullied/bullied - it is both subtle and works. While you can tell the poem has conformed to the pattern, it does not take away but rather enhances the meaning. I enjoyed it.
Some how I missed this one... and thanks to invs I now see the spoonerism that works so well. You are so very correct. Bullying is often a sad form of family inheritance if not learned in some other sadistic manner. It also, perhaps indirectly, speaks to the timid that have become that which they hated and feared the most. Some, eventually overcome this but it is always there under the surface; the invisible scar. Very well put and memorable. It should be required reading in all schools.
i've always been a fan of spoonerisms (that confusion of consonants that you describe). you used them quite nicely in this well crafted little piece. quite different and nicely done.
thank you! I didn't know there was a name for that! :)
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you might enjoy this telling of the cinderalla story, done in spoonerisms.......
https://www.y.. read moreyou might enjoy this telling of the cinderalla story, done in spoonerisms.......
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJv_YXIXBsE
I like the word play on this poem - the rhyme scheme is nicely done, bull dog/dull bog, sullied/bullied - it is both subtle and works. While you can tell the poem has conformed to the pattern, it does not take away but rather enhances the meaning. I enjoyed it.
An empathetic, self-pitying, generous, lazy, sensitive, indecisive, candid, capricious student who is always saying she's writing something when really she rarely is. I listen to a lot of music and st.. more..