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Mosaic Musings...interactive poetry reviews _ ARCHIVES -> Short Form Poetry -> Shogun's Psalms _ Some limericks

Posted by: Thoth Sep 1 09, 03:59

I was just trying to jog the muse with a shorty. They're kinda catchy and suddenly there were more.

Lori,
I apologize for posting before the required two days but things are really quite right now and new posts are scarce.
Hope these provide some stimulation or smiles at least!

1
A poet who's rhyme-word for “rose”
caused hiccups for her to compose.
At last in frustration
she bowed to temptation,
eventually opting for prose.
2
When Little Red Ridinghood ran
away with a wolf of a man.
Turned out he was gay
and had nothing to say,
so she went off to visit her Gran.
3
A fisherman's wife threw away
his smelly old jersey one day
a move rather bold
when he died from the cold;
she re-married the very next day.
4
A doctor once misdiagnosed
his patient with warts on her nose.
She cursed him in rage,
now in his old age
he finds himself quite decomposed.
5
There once was a bear who loved hunny,
he valued it greater than money.
Not trusting the bank,
suspecting a prank,
he stuffed it all into his tummy.
6
There once was a fly in the ointment
who got stuck without prior appointment.
With no-one to pluck
him free from the muck,
it ended in grave disappointment.
7
In the year two thousand and five
when a plane once failed to arrive
they said it was late
so we'd all have to wait
but in fact there were none to survive.

Posted by: ohsteve Sep 3 09, 21:00

Wally, a couple of these were quite great... I got a chuckle... thanks for posting.

Steve

Posted by: Peggy Carpenter Harwood Sep 4 09, 14:04

Hi Wally,

Great limericks!!! Some very funny ones!!!
I see what you mean about meter now!!!

Peggy

Posted by: Cleo_Serapis Sep 4 09, 14:23

These are great Wally.

I liked the Riding hood one and the "hunny". Not sure on that last one though - seems sad not funny.

Enjoyed!
~Cleo

Posted by: ace Sep 9 09, 16:59

WallY;

These show your mastery of the genre. I particularly lik 1, 2, and 5. A good chuckle from all but the last. I agree somewhat with Cleo on the last one. Although probably no poetic rule should be hard and fast, it does seem like limericks should have some element of humor.

ace

Posted by: JustDaniel Sep 13 09, 09:19

Wally, you prove, as I've tried to demonstrate myself more than once, that limerick can be used to say almost anything, serious, funny, heavy, light, nonsense, informational. I've even used them to write a critique or comment on someone else's poem... though we can't do too much of that, ya know. It can get out of hand, especially with limericks.

deLightingly, Daniel

P.S. Note that you have a couple of run-ons in the group. Very unlike your carefulness!