Limerick, Poetic Form Exercise Options

[JustDaniel]

My cholesterol never is high!
But the starch and the sugar, well... sigh...
I keep eating too much
so my weight-gain is such
that I fear I must stop or I'll die!

[Larry]

“That I fear I must stop or I’ll die”
was the thought in the mind of this guy
fighting in Viet Nam
so without any qualm
chose to give different life-styles a try.

[JustDaniel]

If one gives different lifestyles a try
he may end living in a pigsty
eating pods for his lunch
since the whole selfish bunch
he'd been hanging with all said goodbye.

[Larry]

He’d been hanging when all said goodbye
for the noose that he used was two-ply
and the crooks, when they dropped,
broke the rope; never stopped
running off before his second try.

[JustDaniel]

Running off before his second try
there was no paint where he'd left to dry
in the room where he'd sleep;
he had tried being cheap...
but he did catch a big honkin' fly!

[Larry]

He did catch a big honking fly’s butt
and his tongue took it down to his gut.
The bull frog’s flower bed
was now clean and he said,
“Time is fun when you’re having flies!” Splut!

[JustDaniel]

It's no fun when your draggin' fly sticks;
your aroma will not welcome chicks
and your cut-offs now sag
'til you wipe with some rag
found out back by your stack of used bricks.

[Larry]

By your stack of used bricks found out back
were the shreds of an old paper sack
which once held some cement;
you don’t know where it went
and you can’t build the new wall you lack.

[JustDaniel]

If you can't build the new wall you need,
buy some fence posts and wire and some seed;
soon your yard will be green
and your friends will have seen
beauty out where your dog once had peed.

[Larry]

Where your dog had once peed, beauty’s out
for brown spots will appear. There’s no doubt
that the same goes for poo
which can leave brown spots too
so just spray some green paint there about.

[JustDaniel]

If you're spraying green paint on your lawn,
very soon what will you walk upon
but dry acid lime dust
that is baked to a crust?
You'll have killed all your grass thereupon.

[Larry]

Thereupon all your grass you’ll have killed
is green paint from the spots you have filled
so get rake, hoe and spade
and the clean ground you’ve made
is a new flower bed that you’ve tilled.

[JustDaniel]

In the newly-tilled bed you have made
plant tomatoes and peppers you've splayed
all around you in prep
for your efforts to schlep
every plant to the ground they'll invade.

[Larry]

They’ll invade every plant in the ground!
If you try to grow mint, please surround
every type, for their roots
will send out little shoots.
Farmers can’t govern mint, they’ll abound.

[JustDaniel]

If a farmer can't govern his mint
it's inevitable that a glint
will appear in the eye
of his wife, who'll espy
all the gold that could bear her thumbprint.

[Larry]

All her gold should be bare a thumb-print
‘cause her fingers were where it all went
and she’ll always begrudge
a small stain or a smudge
that detracts from its gleaming extent.

[JustDaniel]

It detracts from her gleaming ex-tent
'cause he paints inside houses for rent
using it as a tarp;
soon he fell down a scarp
when she pushed him... and what a descent!

[Larry]

He was decent whenever she’d push
him to yard work and trim every bush
while she sat by the pool.
He would use every tool
but wished one got her off of her tush.

[JustDaniel]

She got off of her tush, cleaned the pool,
made a lunch that would cause you to drool;
while I work in the yard
it's increasingly hard
as I watch hungrily like a fool.

[Larry]

Like a fool, as I hungrily watch,
exposés take suspense up a notch;
they’ve found no Yeti yet
and I’m willing to bet
no Sasquatch but their hand’s near your crotch.