April may be the cruelest month, but it’s also National Poetry Month. In honor of the month that’s almost lost and gone, let’s celebrate the art of losing before it’s too late:

One Art
by Elizabeth Bishop

The art of losing isn’t hard to master;
so many things seem filled with the intent
to be lost that their loss is no disaster.

Lose something every day. Accept the fluster
of lost door keys, the hour badly spent.
The art of losing isn’t hard to master.

Then practice losing farther, losing faster:
places, and names, and where it was you meant
to travel. None of these will bring disaster.

I lost my mother’s watch. And look! my last, or
next-to-last, of three loved houses went.
The art of losing isn’t hard to master.

I lost two cities, lovely ones. And, vaster,
some realms I owned, two rivers, a continent.
I miss them, but it wasn’t a disaster.

–Even losing you (the joking voice, a gesture
I love) I shan’t have lied. It’s evident
the art of losing’s not too hard to master
though it may look like (Write it!) like disaster.

“If people say, ‘He was here on earth to make sure tongue twisters and limericks got together,’ that’s not so bad. I was best man at the wedding.”

So says Lou Brooks, the man responsible for the delightful – and delightfully difficult to say – Twimericks: The Book of Tongue-Twisting Limericks, in a recent interview on one of our favorite blogs, House of Cat.

If you’ve caught the Twimericks bug, head on over to www.twimericks.com for games, puzzles, and so much more mischievous fun.

(Should your tongue become twisted into a Perfect Over-and-Underhand Bavarian Pretzel Knot, however, don’t say you haven’t been warned…)

Fred’s false teeth fell five hundred feet,
From the fifty-fourth floor onto 45th street,
Fred flagged a fleet florist,
With five ferns from the florist,
Who said, “Fred, now how will you eat?”

Can you say that five times fast? How about just once? The limerick tongue-twisters of Twimericks: The Book of Tongue-Twisting Limericks will have you flubbing words and switching syllables in nutty, poetic prose.

For games, puzzles, and a look behind the creation of Twimericks, visit Twimericks.com!