Limerick, Poetic Form Exercise Options

[Merlin]

Houle carried more freight otherwise
but today with those sunshiny skies
he feels like a Kurd
but that is absurd
cuz the only one near has cannibalize.

[JustDaniel]

Those cannibal-eyed folks are fearsome;
I'm glad that I never lived near some
o' those hungry people.
They watch from a steeple
to see where their next meal will come from.

[Merlin]

Their next meal musta come from MM,
cuz they’re missing, a whole bunch of ‘em!
A sad situation,
they deserve stimulation
like a poke in the bottom – ahem!

[Larry]

When a hum from a poke in the bottom
stirred up hornets before I could spot 'em,
I thought this MM nest
of poets might do best
if a stick was used on 'em to jot 'em

[JustDaniel]

Maybe Lori will come in an' jot 'em
a letter or note... an' we'll spot 'em
an' grab 'em, each one
while pointin' a gun
then sayin' "Please write" once we've fought 'em?

[Merlin]

We need Capt. Cook or Ma Gellan
to sail round the globe and go tellen
that the Limericks are crazy
so join! Don’t be lazy
or you’ll look like a fought watermelon!

[JustDaniel]

I look like a fat watermelon
already, but there is no tellin'
if folks come an' write
I'll have a new sight
ta sho 'em, if it could get gellin'!

[Larry]

If you show 'em that gellin' can happen
when all they have to do is just tap in.
Prose or some poetry
will be nicer if we
lend a hand. Praise will have our lips flappin'.

[JustDaniel]

We'll be fillin' their ears with our praisin'
and certainly we'll be appraisin'
the things that they write;
we will not be trite,
'cause we're in for serious grazin'!

[Larry]

If at serious cause you are gazin’
and you too think it would be amazin’
if some thirty or forty
came to our small party
and jumped in the sand box we plays in.

[JustDaniel]

The Sandman's been playin' here lately,
but I'm hopin' that some will innately
wake up an' join in
so we can begin
a gathering crowd to write greatly!

[Merlin]

To gather a crowd and get going,
since out in the west, it stopped snowing,
send out the good word
so it shall be heard –
MM is alive! We’re all crowing!


[are ye listening, mgmt?]

[JustDaniel]

A Challenge to Visit Crit Forums:

If we keep on crowing, they'll listen
if on the morn's grass there's a glist'nin'
of comments and crits
'til others have fits
fer seein' our word-mills a-gristin'!

[Larry]

It's What We Do

Our word meals are for seeing to crits
and suggestions that everyone gits
when their form or their rhyme
doesn't fit in this clime;
we'll help polish or write their obits.

[Merlin]

It's What I Dun

There’s a whole lotta things that need polish,
like tacked messages – gotta abolish!
How old must they get?
Distractions, and yet,
there’s no-one around who’ll demolish!

[JustDaniel]

When there's no one around we feel foolish
to post more than one piece; it's ghoulish
to float through the air
alone in despair
with no soul to speak with. We're mulish.

[Merlin]

No soul comes to speak, that is tragic
and gone is what wunz was – the magic.
If no-one appears,
I’ll shed fourteen tears,
and that my dear folks, is pelagic!

[JustDaniel]

With pelagic on-hangers adrift
in a bay or a whirlpool or swift
currents all tossed about
with ideas, but doubt:
will our visitors stay once they've sniffed?

[Merlin]

Will our visitors stay once they're stiffed?
Some will, and some will be miffed.
But who will invite ‘em;
should Baskerville bite ‘em
in case they’re to heavy to lift?

[JustDaniel]

If you are too heavy to move
I'll get Larry or Alan; we'll prove
that we're not here alone;
together we'll hone
our skills with some help from above.