I've been trying to think of a poem I could write (for
about a year and a half) using oronyms. I just couldn't come up with
anything. Oronyms are sound units that are redistributed to make different words or phrases. Like using a notion for an ocean. Or ill eagle for illegal. I think this must be a lot like using puns in poetry. Knock, Knock jokes would be a good example.
This poem does it.
And thus (very rough draft)
The Olympic committee
wrote to say
they wanted new events
for Olympians to play.
My brother and I
thought of pogo stick jumping,
cannon ball flying
,
and bumper car bumping.
Finally we thought
we'd suggest they try
an event where
Olympians could toss pie.
We tried this out
to our delight
and had a really
good pie fight.
We tried to clean up
and got about half.
Then Mom came along
said, "Go take a bath."
We wrote the committee
expressing our cheers.
They telephoned back,
but we couldn't hear
because we are Pie Throwing
pie-in-ears.
I know, that last stanza needs work to get to pioneers. Any suggestions? I'm going to get this right.
what words can you think of that are oronyms? (Don't cha just love that word?) Try writing your own poem and I'd love to see it. Greg Pincus had a poem posted for Poetry Friday, titled Etto's Voice, that I would call an oronyms.