Limerick, Poetic Form Exercise Options

[Cleo_Serapis]

A Limerick is a popular form of short, humorous verse, often nonsensical and frequently ribald. It consists of five lines, rhyming aabba, and the dominant meter is anapestic (a metrical foot composed of two short syllables followed by one long one, as in the word seventeen. 2. A line of verse using this meter; for example, “’Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house”), with two feet in the third and fourth lines and three feet in the others. Examples of limerick:

"The limerick packs laughs anatomical
into space that is quite economical,
But the good ones I’ve seen
so seldom are clean
and the clean ones so seldom are comical."

"There once was a young man from Kew
who found a dead mouse in his stew.  
Said the waiter, “Don’t shout  
or wave it about,  
or the rest will be wanting one too!”

"There was an old man from Peru,
who dreamed he was eating his shoe.
He woke in a fright
in the middle of the night
and found it was perfectly true."

The origin of the term is obscure, but a group of poets in Co. Limerick, Ireland, wrote limericks in Irish in the 18th cent. The first collections in English date from c.1820. Among the most famous are those in E. Lear's Book of Nonsense (1846).

[Cleo_Serapis]

Thanks Daniel! :)

Create with ideas you have thought;
that writer's block; you will have fought.  
New rhythm is calling!
Though words you'll be mauling,
you'll paint what your mind's image caught.

[Cleo_Serapis]

I know not to write when I'm tired,
it's been far too long, now I'm wired.
I've lost it, the beat?
I'm spraining... my feet!
That great lesson's got me inspired!

*A reply to Daniel on teaching me limerick at another site.

[Arnfinn]

There was a postman called Wally
Who went to work on a trolley.
He'd ring and he'd ding
Then letters he'd fling
To passing bystanders, by golly.

The tram was double nine one
Or post truck nine double none
To passengers and tram run
Nine double nine one,
And for Wally a sackful of fun.

[JustDaniel]

Remember this one, LorII?

Feet-Shuffling

Do cross-overs make you perturbed?
Your rhythm was somewhat disturbed.
But IF you don’t like it,
I’ll just take a hike; it
is fine for my tongue to be curbed!

© Daniel J Ricketts 19 Nov 2002

. . . or this one?

Limerick Lesson for LorII

uh ONE-2-3; ONE-2-3; KICK it!
uh ONE-2-3; ONE [That’s the TICKet!]
then ONE-2-3; ONE
and ONE-2-3; ONE
then ONE-2-3; ONE [See, you’ll LICK it!]

© Daniel J Ricketts 26 Nov 2002

[Cleo_Serapis]

Remember this one, LorII?

Feet-Shuffling

Do cross-overs make you perturbed?
Your rhythm was somewhat disturbed.
But IF you don’t like it,
I’ll just take a hike; it
is fine for my tongue to be curbed!

© Daniel J Ricketts 19 Nov 2002

. . . or this one?

Limerick Lesson for LorII

uh ONE-2-3; ONE-2-3; KICK it!
uh ONE-2-3; ONE [That’s the TICKet!]
then ONE-2-3; ONE
and ONE-2-3; ONE
then ONE-2-3; ONE [See, you’ll LICK it!]

© Daniel J Ricketts 26 Nov 2002

Tee hee!

Don't remember the first one , but I DO so remember the second!
For anyone who doesn't know -

Limerick Lesson for LorII

uh ONE-2-3; ONE-2-3; KICK it!
uh ONE-2-3; ONE [That’s the TICKet!]
then ONE-2-3; ONE
and ONE-2-3; ONE
then ONE-2-3; ONE [See, you’ll LICK it!]

© Daniel J Ricketts 26 Nov 2002

The CAPPED words are the STRESSES.....

A very helpful lesson Daniel!

Cheers!
~Cleo  :dance:  

[Guest__*]

 

Touche!

But we have only just met. You professed not to speak the sacred tongue of Druids and Bards.
And I never say yes to comparitive strangers, particularly when they listen to the BBC a lot.  I've met quite a few of those people personally.

They are all (darkly)  luvvies

A

[Cleo_Serapis]

Sillies!  :jester:

Sticking my two cents in here to say, the banter's gone beyond.....

We certainly do NOT intend to poke fun of anyone here personally...so everyone - do not take this thread personally!

There....I feel better now....

Limerick anyone?

[JustDaniel]

An alien ate me fer dinner,
but somehow the act made him thinner.
Seems he couldn’t keep down
the thought of this clown;
though I alienate, I’m the winner!

© Daniel J Ricketts 16 Oct 2003

[Cleo_Serapis]

An alien ate me fer dinner,
but somehow the act made him thinner.
Seems he couldn’t keep down
the thought of this clown;
though I alienate, I’m the winner!

© Daniel J Ricketts 16 Oct 2003

HAH HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!

I LOVE this one Daniel!  :jester:  :jester:  :jester:

I'll have to write something!  :dunce:  :pumpkin:  :lovie:

[Athena]

An alien ate me fer dinner,
but somehow the act made him thinner.
Seems he couldn’t keep down
the thought of this clown;
though I alienate, I’m the winner!

© Daniel J Ricketts 16 Oct 2003

Yes, yes, Daniel!

This is a perfect example of a limerick!  Of course, your stressed words are correct, but also the subject and humorous attitude of the poem match the parameters of what a limerick is about.  We know that some of the more riskee' forms would not be suitable in this public forum, but you've written this one with just enough of something distasteful that it's poifecto!    

Thanks so much, Dear Daniel,

Dolly  

[Guest__*]

Time to reflect dear Just.

Dear Daniel this rhyme is distasteful
Your usage of words is so wasteful
I’m sure you will find
That this isn’t refined
And it seems that you wrote it in hasteful

A.

[Cleo_Serapis]

Today is a day we are mourning,
our RED SOX have lost in a storming
ball game of bad luck
The curse - it has STUCK!
Oh well....we can't say there's a warning!

I know - kinda LAME ending...

[JustDaniel]

“I Don’t Give a Ducat!”

The Limerick Cops here may buck it.
I'll hand them a lemon, "Go suck it!
Already your face
is quite a disgrace.
You tell me I can't? I'll just duck it!"
© Daniel J Ricketts 29 Jan 2003

[Guest__*]

I hope you folks don't mind a newbie sticking his nose in here, though some of you know me from a different site under a different name.

I just couldn't resist the urge to get Daniel worked up.


A Lamerick


Atlantis, to you, though vredfreak there.
My poetry sucks, not even fair.
The meter’s way off.
Daniel’s gonna scoff,
To tell it truthfully, I don’t care.



Just having a little fun with ya, Daniel.

Atlantis

[Cleo_Serapis]

I hope you folks don't mind a newbie sticking his nose in here, though some of you know me from a different site under a different name.

I just couldn't resist the urge to get Daniel worked up.


A Lamerick


Atlantis, to you, though vredfreak there.
My poetry sucks, not even fair.
The meter’s way off.
Daniel’s gonna scoff,
To tell it truthfully, I don’t care.



Just having a little fun with ya, Daniel.

Atlantis

Hehehehahahahahahha!

Hi Dan!  :jester:

So glad you have joined us!

WELCOME TO THE MOSAIC!

Cheers!

We look forward to stirring your MUSE my friend!  :lovie:  :sun:

~Cleo  :pharoah:

[Guest__*]

I hope you folks don't mind a newbie sticking his nose in here, though some of you know me from a different site under a different name.

I just couldn't resist the urge to get Daniel worked up.


A Lamerick


Atlantis, to you, though vredfreak there.
My poetry sucks, not even fair.
The meter’s way off.
Daniel’s gonna scoff,
To tell it truthfully, I don’t care.



Just having a little fun with ya, Daniel.

Atlantis

Hehehehahahahahahha!

Hi Dan!  

So glad you have joined us!

WELCOME TO THE MOSAIC!

Cheers!

We look forward to stirring your MUSE my friend!    

~Cleo  

My Contribution

Away from my friends, what a bummer! ???
Miss Cleo was missed all the summer.
Can I please, please stay;
Atlantis please play?
I promise to make all us dumber.  


Hey Lori,

Thanks for the invite, though I'm very unfashionably late.  It's great to see you doing so well, with some of our other friends running around as well.

My "MUSE" is unamused at my musings.
"But to tell it truthfully, I don't care."

Best wishes and good luck with your site,

Dan

[Guest__*]

It's great that you've joined us Dan
You seem like a very nice man
To tell the truth, Daniel
's a bit of a spaniel
But we all do the best that we can.



Sorry Just.  :costume:
Anything for a rhyme.

A

[Guest__*]

It's great that you've joined us Dan
You seem like a very nice man
To tell the truth, Daniel
's a bit of a spaniel
But we all do the best that we can.



Sorry Just.  :costume:
Anything for a rhyme.

A

Inhibited goofiness weakens
the wheels (of the mind) at their squeakin'.
I jest for the fun,
but never have won,
cause Daniel's The Jester's main deacon.


Thanks for the warm welcome, A.  I'm glad I could join in.
For some reason, I never seem to win these little games with Daniel.  But it's still fun to play.

Dan

[Cleo_Serapis]

Hey Dan!  :pharoah:

Away from my friends, what a bummer!  
Miss Cleo was missed all the summer.  
Can I please, please stay;
Atlantis please play?  
I promise to make all us dumber.  

Awwwww - thankies!  :blush21:  :sun:

Of COURSE you can stay!
This is a great group of folks here who all want to learn and grow.

Pleae check out the challenges I KNOW you love in "Pandora's Box" forum!  :dance:  :pumpkin:

Thank you for the well wishes! Everyone keeps saying to 'Just be patient Cleo!'

I think we're on a roll and hope you'll find the Mosaic your new board to post and banter!

Stay tuned for a new look!

Hugs!
~Cleo  :pharoah2

[Guest__*]

Lori,

Of course I noticed the challenge forum.  It wouldn't be your site if there weren't brain-frying challenges all over the place. :)   I'll try to get something in for the "Autumn Leaf", but I just don't know if I'll get there in time.

And don't worry, I'm here to stay.  You're stuck with me.  You shouldn't have come up with such a wonderful place for me to play.

Dan

[Cybele]

Hello Dan,

Having just returned from a break I have picked up the thread with your joining MM.  May I add the warmest of welcomes to all those already expressed?

You are just the fellow to help me with a problem that has been bothering me Dan.

Arkansaw  is the name of your State
a subject not up for debate
but help me out here
I'm clueless, I fear
is it Kansas or Kansaw, mate?

(I know REALLY Dan, just love the anomaly! )

Happy to meet you.

Cheers

Grace

[Athena]

Ahhh Dan, Dan, what can I say?
Your visit has brought you to stay!
I'm so glad
you're here V-Lad;
we've jolly good fun in play.

WORDplay is what we do;
please accept my welcome to you
to join as we learn
old habits to burn;
new thinking for me and for you.

Well, not so great,  but it is late ...

Blessings,
Athena/Merri/Dolly 

[Guest__*]

My word, you've been welcomed most brimmingly
The light here just burns on undimmingly
It's great here, Dan
So jump in, old man,
I'm sure we will get along swimmingly.


A

Welcome back to Our Gracie.
eeh lass, we missed thee.

[Cybele]

Welcome back to Our Gracie.
eeh lass, we missed thee.

Aw Gee!  

Thank Akh. Missed you too

Love

Grace

[Guest__*]

Hello Dan,

Having just returned from a break I have picked up the thread with your joining MM.  May I add the warmest of welcomes to all those already expressed?

You are just the fellow to help me with a problem that has been bothering me Dan.

Arkansaw  is the name of your State
a subject not up for debate
but help me out here
I'm clueless, I fear
is it Kansas or Kansaw, mate?

(I know REALLY Dan, just love the anomaly! )

Happy to meet you.

Cheers

Grace

It's my pleasure to join in the pack,
though the rhyme in this piece sorta lacks.
One little request-
just spoken in jest-
It's OUR KANSAS, and we want it back.


Grace,

Thank you so much for your welcome.  It's nice to see such a friendly community, and I'm honored to be a part.

Dan

[Guest__*]

Ahhh Dan, Dan, what can I say?
Your visit has brought you to stay!
I'm so glad
you're here V-Lad;
we've jolly good fun in play.

WORDplay is what we do;
please accept my welcome to you
to join as we learn
old habits to burn;
new thinking for me and for you.

Well, not so great,  but it is late ...

Blessings,
Athena/Merri/Dolly 

Familiar are faces in Mosaic,
the folks are so quick, not prosaic.
I see Merridoll
has joined in the ball.
Let's play as if words . . . algebraic.


Hey Merri,

So good to see you again.  And I'm afraid I've moved past late into "way too damn early".  It's great to be welcomed to MM so wonderfully.

Dan

[Guest__*]

My word, you've been welcomed most brimmingly
The light here just burns on undimmingly
It's great here, Dan
So jump in, old man,
I'm sure we will get along swimmingly.


A

Welcome back to Our Gracie.
eeh lass, we missed thee.

Hey A,

I'm afraid I've been up for nearly 28 hours now, and just cannot come up with any witty replies (which irks me to no end).

I do appreciate all of you for your friendly welcome to your playground (I got dibs on the monkey-bars!).  It means a lot, and is very well received.

Thanks to all,

Dan

[Guest__*]

I'm afraid I've been up for nearly 28 hours now,

I remember when Atlantis sank
And it lay in the sea, cold and dank
I'm so glad you're up
I would ask you to sup
But the best of the beer is drank.


A

[Cleo_Serapis]

This is quite fun to read!  

Ok here goes another lame Cleo attempt at limerick:    

At MM you'll find quite a crew
we're witty and quite like to chew
on words of our stage
where muses engage
performing in style for you!

There's gods of the lore in our midst
and pharaohs provide ancient twists
on scrolls meant to last
we'll dig up the past
aMUSing your intellect gist!


   :drill:  

[Guest__*]

At MM you'll find quite a crew
we're witty and quite like to chew
on words of our stage
where muses engage
performing in style for you!

When all of these words have been read
And Limericks all put to bed
The man who said liquor
was quicker and slicker
Might well have been proud of this thread.

Can't remember his name, but he was a famous American poet!


A

[Guest__*]

Yes I can

It was Ogden Nash
:costume:

A

[Guest__*]

At MM you'll find quite a crew
we're witty and quite like to chew
on words of our stage
where muses engage
performing in style for you!

When all of these words have been read
And Limericks all put to bed
The man who said liquor
was quicker and slicker
Might well have been proud of this thread.

Can't remember his name, but he was a famous American poet!


A

But if liquor was quicker than words,
then this thread would have gone to the birds.
When getting so soused,
my work gets so doused
in a jumble of meaningless slurs.

I remember when Atlantis sank
And it lay in the sea, cold and dank
I'm so glad you're up
I would ask you to sup
But the best of the beer is drank.

Atlantis may fall to the power
of time, in this horrible hour.
Abstain from the tears.
Control all your fears.
Just wait till he's been to the shower.


It's amazing what a couple hours of sleep will do for you (and this pot of pure Kenyan coffee sitting here }.

Dan

[Guest__*]

Sometimes when you're awfully tired
and your thoughts are all mickled and mired
You may try hard to write
But you give up the fight
For you find that your muse has expired.


A.

[Guest__*]

Sometimes when you're awfully tired
and your thoughts are all mickled and mired
You may try hard to write
But you give up the fight
For you find that your muse has expired.


A.

My muse is unamused at your lack
of faith in her craftiness- her knack.
For she has no watch,
but sips at her scotch,
and thinks for my mind, till it comes back.



Yeah, I know.  My muse isn't very amused at this poor effort, either.  But she'll scold me later, then we can make up.

Dan

[Guest__*]

Dera Cleo

Inspired by these words in your recent post :


"another lame Cleo"

A Lim'rick by Cleo_Serapsis ?
No better than making her asp piss:
Another lame Cleo ?
While others claim "Leo" !
Truth is - we present Rev Spooner's Twist !

Love
Alan

[Guest__*]

A muse that has never been kissed?
A Spooner with that tangy twist?
I'll lurse up my pips
I'll hole with my rips
Wiles no one could ever resist


A

[Guest__*]

LOVE-LORN LIMERICK

Heard nubile young lassie from Glen Frear
"Rites pagan; Stonehenge! You come here!"
She offered virginity
For young man's fertility,
Alas, there's nowt but upstanding old menhir.

Alan McAlpine Douglas

[Guest__*]

This person of feminine gender
Was sweet and surprisingly tender
When asked if she would
She cried out "Oh Good!"
And she just couldn't wait to surrender.  


A

I think I'll have to copyright some of these.

:costume:

[JustDaniel]

So ya think that yer quicker with likker
'n' it betters yer tongue?  Well, it's thicker!
I'd bet Ogden would gnash
at some o' our stash
'n' then not stay around here ta bicker.

Hey, I just woke up!  What do you expect?
sLightly congested, Daniel

[heartsong7]

A muse at a poetry-fest
reluctantly sighed and confessed.
"I thought my fine form
would surpass the norm
if I just addressed you undressed

[JustDaniel]

A muse at a poetry-fest
reluctantly sighed and confessed.
"I thought my fine form
would surpass (the) any norm
if I (just) merely addressed you undressed."

I offer this little corrective.
(Please know that there ain't no invective.)
I is hidin'n' my blush,
'cause jest seein' your tush
is makin' me feel self-protective.

[JustDaniel]

Sonnimeric

Hmm… a sonnet: I am Bic Pen Tam,
my hat seems to whisper.  I cram
all my meter and rhyme
‘neath my bonnet in time
to a metronome.  Hope it ain’t spam.

© Daniel J Ricketts 2005

[Guest__*]

Dear All,

This was supposed to be a clerihew, but I could not chip enough off it to make it one, so a limerick it will be.

LIMERICK - INSCRUTABLE

No leader is better than Cleo
whose stony rear resembles that of Leo
in her Sphinx-like musings mosaic
not a tile is prosaic
’cept those of prose, and some others with B.O.

Alan McAlpine Douglas

[JustDaniel]

There's none like the leprechaun Alan
when he has retracted his talon.
He'll write on the wing
about anything;
his feathers get great miles-per-gallon.

(at least in American English!)

Lightly, Daniel  

[JustDaniel]

Now surely our Alan has words
to further exchange on these boards!
Will he leave this alone?
...or still better hone
his word-skills for those cheering hoards?

[jgdittier]

<font color='#000000'>Now surely our Alan has words
to further exchange on these boards!
Will he leave this alone?
...or still further hone
his word-skills for those cheering hoards?</font>

A Free Verse Lim'rick

It's the lim'rick, where poetry's slim,
it's a form far from norm for a whim.
I could write in free verse
then recite as that's worse.
I'll perform, make a storm, Oh how grim!

[JustDaniel]

I'm not sure what you're sayin' in this,
but the fact that you're sayin' it's bliss,
'cause this tile 'as just sat 'ere
while we's gettin' fatter...
free of exercise; we's bin remiss.

[JustDaniel]

Good grief! There's been no one to say
a thing in the Limerick way...
at least in this thread.
Will it remain dead?
Shall we bury it... or shall we play?

[Thoth]

Or shall we all go out and bury
a poem considered contrary
the form is not dead
but badly inbred
by poets who're hopeless and hairy

[Cleo_Serapis]

The lim'rick is one funny feeder
oft full of retorts: it's a breeder...
Fear not - it's not dead --
It's all in your head!
We just need a prodding, dear reader!

[JustDaniel]

I know well that Limerick's not dead...
I was merely concerned for this thread!
So if you all are playing
we'll keep on displaying
the strange stuff that's stored in our head.

[Thoth]

Now Dan implies WE use a head!!!
(it's posted above in this thread),
He surely must know it
the muse of a poet
resides in the past not ahead.

[JustDaniel]

Ahead, abehind -- who can tell!?
So long as the beat's goin' well
we'll dance right along
while singin' a song
an' pickin' up folks that's done fell!

[Merlin]

Nice to have ya aboard, Larry.
I see Daniel is busy farming on Facebook.


Sometimes when a fella can’t think,
It’s because of that gold barley drink.
What a fine, smooth elixir
But a sneaky old fixir
That lets you get right outa sync.

While checking the menu in Braille,
I missed out on a minor detail
But a second perusal
Was met with refusal.
Tho I choked, it was all “no avail.”

[Thoth]

We onna pubcrawl Larry! My round -

That last one was a bommer Merlin!


Old Merlin 'tho stooping and frail
hobbled back to the old bar at Yale
when checking the prices
found foreign devices
inflating the costs of his ale.

Wally

[Merlin]

Barmaid, another round pls.


You’ve only got sixpence and some;
Your expression has turned rather glum.
The tab is much higher
And the wench you admire
Has run off with some other bum.

Too much of the ale can spell trouble
As knees tend to flip-flop and wouble.
Ten pints ought to do –
Recycle a few,
Then get yourself home on the double!

[Thoth]

So sad my friend, so sad!

Singing -
"Why was she born so beautiful
why was she born at all . . . "

oi! slide em babies

When I was a doctor at Yale
young Larry while studying Braille;
requested an ointment
to soothe disappointment
inflicted while groping for ale.

It was cleverly done I must say
for a splash of fine red cabernet,
one certain protrusion
if pressed in profusion
made bottles depart from the tray.

[Merlin]

Ah yes,

A topnotch invention Braille izz
From the French – or was it the Swizz?
A raised alphabet
Works from here to Tibet
And an ale is a nale is a fizz!

I focused my left eye to bits
On the menu wrote down on her chest
And then ordered another
For the road and its brother
Before singing No-ale type of hits.


Singing >> No-ale, no-ale, No-ale, no-ale…
(for Steve)

[Larry]

Wally and Merlin,

Here is another round for you both. Wally, I never studied Braille(referencing your last entry). It was merely a ruse to use when feeling a bit thirsty.

Since I’m too bloody smashed to see more
And Braille fingers aren’t up to the chore
I’ll just grab the menu
To expose it; then you
Can lick up what she spills on the floor.

The poor maid who served drinks in the bar
Had the measles in places bizarre
She applied calamine
Both in front and behin’
But the vision impaired read too far.


Merlin, it's French - Louis Braille - 1829; but then, you already knew that.

Larry

[Larry]

The acerbic salubrious lime
May deserve a salute in its clime
But its use in the cheek
Paired with tongue is unique
And enhances surperflous rhyme

[JustDaniel]

Salubrious fruit don't sound good --
seems like slobb'rin' all over yer food!
I don' like Mucus Welby
an he may as well be
a horse doc, if I'm understood!

[Larry]

Some detest or shun wholesome repast
Though the menu's exceedingly vast
They'll eat burgers and fries
'Till they triple in size
I'm amazed when they call that food, "Fast".

[JustDaniel]

Yer fast food should only be water
an' juice maybe, 'cause the folks oughta
eat nothin' at all,
but so's they don' fall,
have liquid -- that's my imprimatur.

[Larry]

Juice and water are nice, I concur;
But the rule book is vague, as it were
For if poured over Jack
I'd be taken a'back
O' the woodshed and given "What fer".

[JustDaniel]

In back o' the shed's where a bum
learned what fer if 'e really was dumb
but a guy an' a gal
ain't like bein' a pal --
gotta study anatomy some.

[Larry]

I remember that Ann and I spent,
On a brief educational stint,
Time behind the tool shed
With some hay for a bed.
That's the place where Ann at a me went!

[JustDaniel]

Ann atomically speaking blew up
the size of her breast hugging cup
and filled it with tissue
to tease you to issue
your shed-invitation to shtup.

[Larry]

Yes, the issue of tissue arose
But there wasn’t enough for a nose
Her Olympus Mons squared
Was no way size impaired
Tissue cushioned the place her cups squooze


and


I’d heard rumors of embellished girth
The mere mention of which causes mirth
There was plenty to spare
Of mammalian pair
Plethora in excess but no dearth

[JustDaniel]

Talk of Martian volcanoes and such
is disturbing if she has a clutch
since men are from Mars...
so your image just jars
me -- you with a blossoming butch!

[Larry]

Metaphoric inflations construe
That the Martian volcano won’t do
For analogous spheres
Of a shape which endears
Gray’s hypothesis I don’t eschew

[Cleo_Serapis]

!!

[JustDaniel]

I once met a phoric inflation
that brought me abreast of oblation
I needed to make
if ever I'd take
advantage of such adaptation.

[Larry]

Many Eucharists I have seen blessed
But what’s given in Flation’s the best
One was brought by a Phoric?
Could that be in New Yoric?
Two would be much more fun, I‘ll attest

[JustDaniel]

A romantic encounter's brief quiet
comes just after the one has to cry it
aloud several times
while her partner's id climbs
the walls to get out -- then they sigh it.

[JustDaniel]

A batter with no air to breathe
makes pancakes on which you could teethe
your baby -- or toss
like Frisbees across
the kitchen... but Mama would seethe.

[Larry]

Hi Daniel,

In answer to your prior post, I have two. I'll work on the other one later.

Though his Id isn’t hidden at all
When it’s striving to climb up that wall
Echoes of her delight
Make him think that he might
Be the cause and the reason for thrall


and


Susurrating sighs show satisfaction,
Inspire Id’s intimate interaction
Gasping girls graciously
Have harmoniously
Satiated… start sizing subtraction

[Larry]

I had heard of that young man who tried
To eat pancakes made by his new bride
But his utensils bent
To their greatest extent
Front and back, all his efforts denied

and continuing on...

So he got his wood chisel and maul
But could make no impression at all
His new wife understood
When he asked if she would
Make some more for his new garden wall

[JustDaniel]

Since the walls at the newlyweds' bed
(both the bedroom's and garden's, you said)
have discovered new use
likely soon Dr Seuss
won't long sit around lonely, unread.

[Larry]

Dr. Seuss on the loose just won’t do!
Could it be about pancakes in lieu
Of good mortar and stones?
Tell him my wife condones
The use of her homemade biscuits too.

[JustDaniel]

Since I'm batchin* for three weeks, I tried
out the biscuits, Kentuck' Country Fired
... and I shoulda got more
'cause theirs'll outscore
opponents; it can't be denied!


*Yesterday took my wife to the plane
for her Mexico trip -- it's insane!
She's now stuck in Dallas
in airport's ice palace,
and boy, is she feeling the pain.

At eleven today she should leave
for Guadalajara, relieved --
though she'll still go by car
over mountains quite far,
but new grandson will be a reprieve.


Dominick Angel Montoya was born to our middle daughter DoriAn and husband Jose on Jan. 18 -- their first after two miscarriages.

[Larry]

First of all Daniel, congratulations on your new grandson. Bet you feel great about that. Not so great on the "Batchin" part though, huh?


I once lived in Big D long ago
And remember the times it would snow
Frozen roads here and there
Gave good drivers a scare
When the bad ones just slid to and fro.




Bachelorhood is a game I won’t play.
For three weeks? No not even a day!
I’d have had to depart
With my little sweetheart
Down to Mexico with her, Ole!

[JustDaniel]

It snowed here this morning -- a dusting
so weather seems finally adjusting
to normalcy, but
I'm not gonna strut;
I'm not to predictions entrusting!


re goin' down Mexico way
I would have, but I had to stay.
My time was all used;
recovery refused
to shorten itself many days.

[Larry]

A mere dusting is what I have seen
From the Arctic’s snow making machine.
But I’ve heard, word of mouth
That down in the deep South
Fall to Spring, ain’t no white in between.


---------------------------


That’s enough about snow for I see
Small white blossoms on my Mayhaw tree
Spring has sprung, Winter’s dead.
In my front flower bed
Daffodils share their beauty with me.

[JustDaniel]

During night-before-last, our main froze
somewhere up the street. I suppose
that I should be glad
I was warm inside, clad
for bed and found restful repose.

[Larry]

We don't have water mains where I stay
For we do it the old fashioned way
From our well which we drilled
Comes pure water. I'm thrilled
With zero water bills every day.


"Kentwood Springs" will make millions each year
Selling water to folks far and near
But their aquifer's source
Flows beneath us, of course
So I bathe in their profits right here.

[JustDaniel]

I pay little mind to the profit
of others, and often I scoff it
'cause soon comes the day
'twill all burn away
according to many a prophet.

[Larry]

Though the mouths of the prophets exude
Direst warnings that time will conclude
Wall Street and the big banks
Will go on ‘till it tanks
For un-prophet-ability’s rude

[JustDaniel]

So pinch bucks and pennies for stock
and fill up the wind-cracks with calk
to save all you can
but since time began
it winds up when it's 12 o'clock.

[Larry]

There once was an old miser who’d grieve
O’er the halfpenny tips he would leave
On a table for thanks,
Kept the rest in his banks.
“No ex-pence” was his recitative.

[Alan]

NON-RUSSIAN COLLECTIVE

The collective for grabbers of money
whether rain falls, it's snowing, or sunny
- one and all, cankers -
is "Wunch of Bankers"
except, they are not in the least funny

Alan McAlpine Douglas

[Larry]

Well, Hello Alan,

Welcome aboard the Limerick Limited. Loved your 4th line Spoonerism.

I must say Bankers are without class
While the politicians are quite crass
They're all in for the dough
But I'd like them to know
I don't have none, so just kiss my ...!

[JustDaniel]

I'm trying to follow your rhyme
and meter... but ran out of time.
Perhaps it's a farce...
or am I an arse
for tripping... or are you a mime?

[Larry]

Most of mine are in anapest form
One two three, One two three is my norm
But in lines three and four
Dactylics I adore
Didn't mean to stir up such a storm

[JustDaniel]

The storm was a farce, my good friend;
was pretending "me no comprehend..."
I filled in the blank...
but your chain I'd still yank.
There's nothing you need to defend!

[Alan]

PSALTERTED COD ?

Larry, pay no mind to our Daniel
who'll joke, ever eager, like spaniel
can't help it - he's a Yank
p'rhaps thoroughly to spank ?
so take him with salt, a mere granule !

Alan

[JustDaniel]

Is our Larry a cannibal, Al?
Would you spank me and salt me, old pal?
Would you boil me or bake me
then to Larry take me
for a meal internacional?

[Larry]

Can o’ Bull? I’d much rather have Coors
With that granule of salt; I’ll use yours.
Though obtuse with his joke
On baked Daniel, I’d choke
I’ll just toast limericking connoisseurs.

[Alan]

Can 'e ball ? Can't 'e ball ? Well who cares ?
There's a time, and a tide, in affairs
which are, quite sure, a joke
life's thin pig in fat poke
so man seeks redemption in prayers !

Love
Alan

[Larry]

Priers pry, prayers pray, preyers prey
As the time and the tide roll away
But to poke a thin pig
With a finger or twig
Ain’t no joke. That’s all I have to say.