Reading Test

I began this poem some time in November I think. I found it today, finished it off, and polished it up. See how well you do on the Reading Test. 

Reading Test

(A poem to be read aloud)

By Melody Beerbower, 2-3-14

Here’s a test for those of you

Who think reading’s a piece of cake.

See if you can read these words aloud

And not make one mistake.

Love

Dove

Feed

Lead

Hive

Live

Speed

Read

Newer

Sewer

Grow

Bow

Pheasant

Present

Know

Sow

Fear

Tear

Sinned

Wind

Slumber

Number

Swooned

Wound

Now that didn’t take you very long,

But I bet you got half of them wrong.

Before you fuss or start to fight,

Read these sentences to see if you were right:

Tommy dove into a pool.

He sunk like a lump of lead.

He was fortunate to live,

At least that’s what I’ve read.

Once there was a sewer of cloth,

Who would always bow

When he did present a coat to buyers

Though it be made from the lowest sow.

When John got a tear in his arm

He tried to wind a cloth around it

As his fingers grew number

He realized just how tight he wound it.

                 ~*~

So how did you do?

Did you find that I was right?

Or did you spot the trick

With more than common insight?

Yes, I admit it was a trick,

So don’t tear my poems to tatters.

I’m just trying to show,

That context really matters.