Limerick, Poetic Form Exercise Options

[Maureen]

aaaargh - what were you thinking?


It was Prancer who started to boogie
As the deer pulled the sleigh to Zeebrugge
All the sleigh bells were ringing
and santa was singing
to the bugle boys cool boogie woogie

[Maureen]

He could boogie along with the best
and he always wore a bright red vest
he had braces of yellow
a colourful fellow
but they thought him gay- way out west

[Larry]

Though they thought he was gay way out west
with his colorful teeth and his vest,
it was mere color blindness;
and so in his kindness
he said he was straight. They’d just guessed.

[JustDaniel]

If they guess you are straight when you're crook'd,
at the twisted joints you won't be booked,
so you'd better bend over
unless you're a lover
of poverty o'er how you looked.

[Larry]

Poverty overlooked is how you
can get rich but you’ll find it is true
karma may take a while
and it will cramp your style
with some ill-fitting rags and one shoe.

[JustDaniel]

In those ill-fitting rags you could shoe
a horse or a mule; you could glue
them on or use duct tape,
or 'haps you could reshape
their hooves with a file and use Goop

[Larry]

If you file a horse hoof and use goop
there’s a chance you’ll get thrown for a loop
when your hands both adhere
to its legs front or rear,
‘cause you’re going to get drug in some poop.

[JustDaniel]

If you're drug on the ground through horse apples
be sure that you freshen with Snapple
after wiping the smears
from your hair and your ears
before afternoon hymns in the chapel.

[Larry]

Hims in chapel while Hers go to shop
to assuage a desire which won’t stop.
For his tenor, the song;
for her tenner, a thong
and a bra. Neither wishes to flop!

[JustDaniel]

If you fear that you'll just be a flopper,
then take care how you sit on the hopper,
'cause it could go 'floop'
if it's that kind of poop
that's produced by a double cheese Whopper.

[Larry]

A cheese Whopper produces a double
bypass surgery fixed with a bubble
at the end of a stint
where cholesterol went.
If you eat them again your in trouble.

[JustDaniel]

If your eats have no end, you may find
that some graveyard's where you'd be enshrined...
there for dining too long...
but you would be among
a ton of fat cats reassigned.

[Larry]

If the fat cats resigned there’s a ton
of cold cash; we could share in the fun,
but that’s not going to happen
the fat cats will crap in
what’s left of their loot when it’s done.

[JustDaniel]

If what's left of the loot turned to crap
you can dump it out back; fill the gap
'neath the fence where the dog
digs to go catch that frog
he hears croaking when you take a nap.

[Larry]

When you’re taking a nap you don’t croak
but your subconscious mind will invoke
the idea that real flight
is your God-given right.
What of landings before you’ve awoke?

[JustDaniel]

While asleep, if you land on the moon,
it is best that you not wake too soon
or you'll never get back;
best to stay in the sack
'til you're home... even if it's past noon.

[Larry]

If it’s past noon and you are still home
then get up, wash your face, use a comb.
Go out and exercise
or the next big surprise
will find you sleeping in under loam.

[JustDaniel]

If you find you're asleep under loam
let us hope that it's simply been blown
there by very strong wind
or that you've not just sinned
'gainst your wife with the last seed you've sown.

[Larry]

If you’ve sown your last seed ‘gainst your wife
then I’d say that your problems are rife.
Though your aim was to please
all it took was a sneeze
to subvert what could have been a life.

[JustDaniel]

If subversion's your manner of life
you will stir up a mountain of strife;
it is better to share
with your peers with no air
of back-biting, nor wielding a knife.