At Cleo's request, we'll start a Limerick TRAIN thread.
Three rules:
1 Work at making it a real limerick. [First post is somewhat instructive on that matter.]
2 Avoid the traditional ribald or worse, if you would, please
3 Link with at least two words [ or sounds ] from final line of previous post.
All aboard...
3-3-2-2-3
Hey, a lim'rick's a lim'rick! Let's face it!
It's got three feet, then three feet; then space it
with a couplet of two.
(Splash’s eyes roll to blue?)
Then it's one more with three feet. Just pace it.
Now, I'm not makin' fun o’ you, Jimmy!
We enjoy all yer gaffs; ye're no dimmy!
Lor's a great writer too!
(Would that I could be you!)
But a lim'rick's a lim'rick! It's whimmy.
So let's 3-3-2-2-3 together!
See, a lim'rick – no matter the weather –
goes with ‘3’ feet, then ‘3’,
then with two ‘2’s. You see?
Then you finish with one more ‘3’ measure.
Once we get it, our joy will continue;
it won't stop . . . but we'll jig! Yes, it's in you!
So let's try it once more!
Please, this beat, don't ignore,
and our fun will go on. (Not agin you!)
© Daniel J Ricketts 02 Mar 2002 (rev. 7-12-03)
Full Version: Limerick TRAIN
Note Link (minimum two words) ~ Here I chose four: fun will go on
First Link
Cleo’s fun will go on if you link it
with a couple of words. Please don’t think it
will be all that hard.
Come on! You’re a bard!
Grab a couple o’ words… Just don’t kink it!
© Daniel J Ricketts 18 Feb 2004
First Link
Cleo’s fun will go on if you link it
with a couple of words. Please don’t think it
will be all that hard.
Come on! You’re a bard!
Grab a couple o’ words… Just don’t kink it!
© Daniel J Ricketts 18 Feb 2004
A couple 'o words don't seem too hard
it's the pace of the train - and its shard
The beat can be sharp
or smooth like a harp
but whatever ya do, just stand guard!
it's the pace of the train - and its shard
The beat can be sharp
or smooth like a harp
but whatever ya do, just stand guard!
Just stand guard with the brakeman, Your Grace;
if you do, we’ll chug on all apace.
He’ll kick ‘too’ from line one,
and you’ve well begun…
then I’ll wipe off the smirk on my face.
if you do, we’ll chug on all apace.
He’ll kick ‘too’ from line one,
and you’ve well begun…
then I’ll wipe off the smirk on my face.
QUOTE (Just Daniel @ Feb. 18 2004, 05:09)
Just stand guard with the brakeman, Your Grace;
if you do, we’ll chug on all apace.
He’ll kick ‘too’ from line one,
and you’ve well begun…
then I’ll wipe off the smirk on my face.
if you do, we’ll chug on all apace.
He’ll kick ‘too’ from line one,
and you’ve well begun…
then I’ll wipe off the smirk on my face.
MY count'nance is sunny and bright
so take it away
'cuz I wanna play
with word-games all day n' all night!
© D R Harris - 18 February 2004
HOMAGE
Word games played ? No sooner
said that leapt aboard schooner :
setting sail with a will,
write them out with a quill
for our master, the Reverend Spooner .....
Alan McAlpine Douglas
Word games played ? No sooner
said that leapt aboard schooner :
setting sail with a will,
write them out with a quill
for our master, the Reverend Spooner .....
Alan McAlpine Douglas
QUOTE (Alan @ Feb. 18 2004, 15:38)
HOMAGE
Word games played ? No sooner
said that leapt aboard schooner :
setting sail with a will,
write them out with a quill
for our master, the Reverend Spooner .....
Alan McAlpine Douglas
Word games played ? No sooner
said that leapt aboard schooner :
setting sail with a will,
write them out with a quill
for our master, the Reverend Spooner .....
Alan McAlpine Douglas
For our master who we revere,
may You always keep me near
to love and to hold
although I'll grow old
I'll make it 'cause I'll know You're here.
© D R Harris - 18 February 2004
We'll make it 'cause traffic is nil,
to Lindi's we'll visit and fill
our tummies with food
and brighten our mood
then raze that computer's sheer will!
to Lindi's we'll visit and fill
our tummies with food
and brighten our mood
then raze that computer's sheer will!
QUOTE (Cleo_Serapis @ July 08 2004, 06:28)
We'll make it 'cause traffic is nil,
to Lindi's we'll visit and fill
our tummies with food
and brighten our mood
then raze that computer's sheer will!
to Lindi's we'll visit and fill
our tummies with food
and brighten our mood
then raze that computer's sheer will!
Hey Lori and Peter~
A quick Limerick in response to yours!
Thanks again for everything!
Much thanks go to Lori and Pete,
for making the morning so sweet,
Pete's mind spinning wild,
enthused like a child,
as Lori helps hasten the feat.
for making the morning so sweet,
Pete's mind spinning wild,
enthused like a child,
as Lori helps hasten the feat.
Hey, ya writ one fer Lori 'n' Pete!
and they writ one fer you; man, that's neat.
But it's Alan's I fear...
though he's gettin' quite near
to the 3-3-2-2-3 jig beat
and they writ one fer you; man, that's neat.
But it's Alan's I fear...
though he's gettin' quite near
to the 3-3-2-2-3 jig beat
Lightly struttin', Daniel
I met a fine rhymer named Dan
who writes rhymes as fast as he can
his poems are neat
and always upbeat
Ole Dan is a five minute man.
who writes rhymes as fast as he can
his poems are neat
and always upbeat
Ole Dan is a five minute man.
A five-minute man?! 
That ain't nice...
even thrown in with apples 'n' spice
but I'll never cite Sue
in something so blue :pharoah2
nor'll I wish on 'er boils 'n' lice.
wavin' back Lightly, Dan'l 
That ain't nice...even thrown in with apples 'n' spice
but I'll never cite Sue
in something so blue :pharoah2
nor'll I wish on 'er boils 'n' lice.
wavin' back Lightly, Dan'l
I meant no offence, Mister Dan
when I said 'a five minute man'
Your poetry's swell
and penned very well.
Composing so quickly is grand.
Sue
when I said 'a five minute man'
Your poetry's swell
and penned very well.
Composing so quickly is grand.
Sue
I was kiddin', sweet Sue; can't you tell?
I can take any gaff purdy well!
... and I hope ye can too,
'cause they come without clue,
an' ya'd best larn ta duck, or ya'll swell!
I can take any gaff purdy well!
... and I hope ye can too,
'cause they come without clue,
an' ya'd best larn ta duck, or ya'll swell!
I don't dish out what I cannot take
of that you may make no mistake
I now have a clue
of your humor too
so see ya around for fun's sake.
of that you may make no mistake
I now have a clue
of your humor too
so see ya around for fun's sake.
For fun's sake, let's talk about work
as some of us bat heads with jerk(s)
it ain't very purty
and can be quite nerdy
when all you can see is me smurk!
Ah.. bat heads with jerk... my forte.
It seems that I must, let me say,
either stand or ignore...
wish they'd show her the door...
but I'm doin' my job anyway!
It seems that I must, let me say,
either stand or ignore...
wish they'd show her the door...
but I'm doin' my job anyway!
I'm doin' my job here just fine
and I ain't one to get out-of-line
but sometimes we must
boot those we can't trust
to make things all nice, no more "whine"!
and I ain't one to get out-of-line
but sometimes we must
boot those we can't trust
to make things all nice, no more "whine"!
Charlie took a young lady to dine
at a place he considered quite fine
She couldn't be pleased,
complaints never eased,
so he offered some cheese with her whine.
at a place he considered quite fine
She couldn't be pleased,
complaints never eased,
so he offered some cheese with her whine.
She served up sour whine with her sleaze
... would spread all the gossip she'd please;
if I had let her stay
she'd have soon had the sway,
but I chucked her. She was a disease.
... would spread all the gossip she'd please;
if I had let her stay
she'd have soon had the sway,
but I chucked her. She was a disease.
She stepped in a bucket of sleaze
and sank in it up to her knees.
She's stuck there to stay
because that same day,
a witch made that sleazy mess freeze.
and sank in it up to her knees.
She's stuck there to stay
because that same day,
a witch made that sleazy mess freeze.
I carved that old witch in a frieze
then transferred her there, if you please
with magic and trance,
then after a dance
I burned it and watched its nose sneeze.
then transferred her there, if you please
with magic and trance,
then after a dance
I burned it and watched its nose sneeze.
QUOTE (heartsong7 @ July 15 2004, 16:47)
Charlie took a young lady to dine
at a place he considered quite fine
She couldn't be pleased,
complaints never eased,
so he offered some cheese with her whine.
at a place he considered quite fine
She couldn't be pleased,
complaints never eased,
so he offered some cheese with her whine.
:pharoah2 :pharoah2 :pharoah2
QUOTE (Just Daniel @ July 15 2004, 17:37)
She served up sour whine with her sleaze
... would spread all the gossip she'd please;
if I had let her stay
she'd have soon had the sway,
but I chucked her. She was a disease.
... would spread all the gossip she'd please;
if I had let her stay
she'd have soon had the sway,
but I chucked her. She was a disease.
:pharoah2 :pharoah2 :pharoah2
QUOTE
I carved that old witch in a frieze
then transferred her there, if you please
with magic and trance,
then after a dance
I burned it and watched its nose sneeze
then transferred her there, if you please
with magic and trance,
then after a dance
I burned it and watched its nose sneeze
The Munchkins were milling about,
the Witch of the West was knocked out.
Dot took her red shoes
and all her best booze
then watched them all party and shout.
******************
Her watch starts to party and shout;
when I scold her... Good grief, what a pout!
Turn off the alarm!
Such wake-ups do harm
to class-napping. What's that about?
when I scold her... Good grief, what a pout!
Turn off the alarm!
Such wake-ups do harm
to class-napping. What's that about?
Good one, Dan...I just went back to refresh my memory of the params for the limerick train....I see that I have not been following correctly....I was picking two words from the previous post rather than 2 words from the last line of the previous post....sorry about that... will adhere from here on.
Sue
Sue
Ms Johnson is napping in class
and dreams that she's rolling in grass
with Principal Pete
On whom she is sweet.
She wakes when he taps on her---glass. ;)
and dreams that she's rolling in grass
with Principal Pete
On whom she is sweet.
She wakes when he taps on her---glass. ;)
It's Taps if he wakes on that lass;
her beau's known for puffin' on grass,
but when he isn't high
he ain't such a nice guy.
What he'd do to that soldier is crass.
her beau's known for puffin' on grass,
but when he isn't high
he ain't such a nice guy.
What he'd do to that soldier is crass.
What he'd do to that grass is quite cruel
if he ain't gonna cut it, my rule:
Don't mow when it's wet
or else you will get
a bill for a fancy new pool!
if he ain't gonna cut it, my rule:
Don't mow when it's wet
or else you will get
a bill for a fancy new pool!
When Bill filled his fancy and lied,
Hillery stayed by his side.
When she's President
He'll be the first gent,
if she lets him on for the ride.
Hillery stayed by his side.
When she's President
He'll be the first gent,
if she lets him on for the ride.
If she lets him on for the ride
it could add more than cubs to his pride...
like a fissure or two
that bleeds red, white and blue...
but in plastic that Billy-boy dyed.
it could add more than cubs to his pride...
like a fissure or two
that bleeds red, white and blue...
but in plastic that Billy-boy dyed.
The plastic reactions of Bill,
were making her shriller until.
He saw very well
a cold day in hell,
if ever he's over that Hill
were making her shriller until.
He saw very well
a cold day in hell,
if ever he's over that Hill
Where there's a Will, he's aweigh
His fever seems over the hill;
he'll prove it ere long, get his fill
'cause crisis mid-life
is hard on the wife
but sense about that just ain't Will
Light 'n' wry if I mayo, Daniel
His fever seems over the hill;
he'll prove it ere long, get his fill
'cause crisis mid-life
is hard on the wife
but sense about that just ain't Will
Light 'n' wry if I mayo, Daniel
Will's sense came from a red and white pill
had to find a new way for his thrill
that crisis mid-life
so affected his wife
he has a new girl, her name is Jill
had to find a new way for his thrill
that crisis mid-life
so affected his wife
he has a new girl, her name is Jill
Mahaps that's another guy 'Will'
The one I knows ain't inta that thrill!
I's made errors afore;
I ain't one ta ignore
that I's got a lot more in me still.
The one I knows ain't inta that thrill!
I's made errors afore;
I ain't one ta ignore
that I's got a lot more in me still.
Droppin' in jest fer oil on each finger
ta Limerick some... but can't linger;
I must scoot fer drillin'
ta put in a fillin'
where each time I bite, it's azinger!
ta Limerick some... but can't linger;
I must scoot fer drillin'
ta put in a fillin'
where each time I bite, it's a
A bite where it hurts must be worse,
than a poet who runs out of verse.
So get that tooth done -
hurry back to the fun
in these Musings profound and diverse.
than a poet who runs out of verse.
So get that tooth done -
hurry back to the fun
in these Musings profound and diverse.
Have my musings confounded de verse?
Since I unhooked de train, will ya curse
my starting anew
because of so few
who joined in? Will my fate be worse?
Lightly, Daniel :sun:
Since I unhooked de train, will ya curse
my starting anew
because of so few
who joined in? Will my fate be worse?
Lightly, Daniel :sun:
It appears I've preceded a curse
that has followed me here... perhaps worse
than at first I had feared,
so must I now be geared
to silence my Light-hearted verse?
Sometimes when we've taken ourselves
un-seriously, there's someone who delves
to find how we tick
while seeming to flick
frivolity right off our shelves.
Wherever I go, I will write
my feelings and thoughts, howe'er trite,
and still try to shine
while staying in line
as best as I can, come what might.
sLightly dimmed, Daniel :wave:
that has followed me here... perhaps worse
than at first I had feared,
so must I now be geared
to silence my Light-hearted verse?
Sometimes when we've taken ourselves
un-seriously, there's someone who delves
to find how we tick
while seeming to flick
frivolity right off our shelves.
Wherever I go, I will write
my feelings and thoughts, howe'er trite,
and still try to shine
while staying in line
as best as I can, come what might.
sLightly dimmed, Daniel :wave:
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