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Hi, my name is Alys Jackson and I'm an author and poet

based in Adelaide, South Australia.

My work has been published in books, magazines,

anthologies and online.

Peter Piper

Little Peter Piper picked a piece of pepper tree,

but little Peter Piper had a pepper allergy.

 

First, he had a tickle from his head down to his knees,

followed by a sniffle that became a violent sneeze.

 

He tumbled through a rose bush with a thousand prickly thorns,

then leapt into a passing bullock’s awfully pointy horns,

 

was tossed into some nettles, (Badly stung upon the nose),

stumbled into bull ants, which then bit him on the toes.

 

So, Peter climbed a pepper tree, (scraping both his knees),

but Peter has an allergy that turned into a sneeze.

 

He tumbled through a rose bush with a thousand prickly thorns,

then leapt into a passing bullock’s awfully pointy horns…

 

And so on…

4 thoughts on “Peter Piper

  1. Dear Alys

    I liked the poem very much and It was really funny. It was funny when Peter tumbled to a thousand prickly thorn and I liked how you added funny things

    Kind regards

    Ranulaka

    • Hi again, Ranulaka. I’m glad you liked the poem. I used to like to read tongue twisters as a child. This is based on the original Peter Piper tongue twister that I memorised. Alys

  2. Dear Alys,
    I really like the way you changed the tongue tie of peter piper and changed it into a funny poem. This poem was really fun to read because every single time something new and funny happened to poor peter

    Kind regards Tirath

    • Hi Tirath. Yes, I enjoyed tongue twisters when I was little. I think I can say Peter Piper quite quickly. I found it a lot of fun trying to change the words and making them rhyme. I wasn’t very kind to poor old Peter, though. I wonder if you’ve ever tried writing your own tongue twister. I wrote this one: This will settle Cecil’s sister’s thistles! See if you can read it quickly. I find it impossible 😠😠😠😠 Alys

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