Limerick, Poetic Form Exercise Options

[Alan]

if you're grey in the face or turn blue
that's a worrying sign, perhaps two
you've become a shark
or maybe a quark
in which case, whatever are we to do ?

Alan

[JustDaniel]

When you find you don't know what to do,
you could Google-search how to shampoo
the chipmunk or skunk
that's under your bunk
which you've been afraid just to shoo.

[Alan]

I have never been afraid to shoe
a horse, an okapi or a gnu
for they are much the least
compared to wildebeest
or giraffe, who says How-de-do

Alan

[Larry]

If you ask a giraffe “How’d he do?”,
I’d advise you to look at your shoe
to make sure you don’t wade
in an eight foot cascade
of green leaves which have now turned to goo.

[JustDaniel]

If you're wading in cascades of goo,
in the leaves there is probably poo
from giraffes and the gnu,
zebra, okapi too!
Stay behind that tall fence at the zoo!

[Alan]

stay behind that tall fence at the zoo
or you'll wander in gallons of poo
for animal chalet
does not provide toilet
and no, you have no reason to sue

Alan

[JustDaniel]

If your reasons to sue have run thin
never let it get under your skin;
if it does, it will itch
and you won't find a niche
for those stoked coals that smolder within.

[Larry]

As those smoldering coals which you’ve stoked
cook the meat you have prodded and poked
for your first barbeque
of the spring, make sure you
remove fat or you’re going to get smoked.

[JustDaniel]

If your diet has gone up in smoke
it won't help to hang out with that bloke
at the pork barbeque
eating baby-back stew
and then guzzling down gallons of Coke.

[Alan]

My wife guzzles up gallons of coke
Which she justifies with "It is oke
To indulge in this way"
And then goes on to say
"Cuz for you I did give up the smoke"

Alan

[JustDaniel]

Yesterday you said your wife was SMOKIN'!
I do hope that you were not jokin'
on that April-First day,
'cause you'll start a foray
with your best side; your eye she'll be pokin'!

[Alan]

Daniel, my eye was first poked by my wife
right at the start of our mutual life
a firm hammer-lock
gave me such a shock
that from me there's been hardly no strife

Alan

[JustDaniel]

If you've hardly a strife with your mate
then a mutual joy is your fate
so today I rejoice
that you each have a voice
that supports and will never berate.

[Alan]

A voice that supports and will never berate
Would indeed be a joy for my fate
Tho a voice slightly raised
Would be so highly praised,
But for that I might have a rather lengthy wait !

Alan

[JustDaniel]

If your weight now has gone to great lengths
to get larger, rejoice in the strength
of your stomach to take
in the taters and steak
and to morph into a blob that cannot rhyme with the first line!

[Larry]

If an un-rhyming blob morphs and shrinks
eating taters and steaks at great lengths
then I'd say a flat worm
has grown up to full term
and is larger than anyone thinks.

[JustDaniel]

If you think that a tape worm has grown
in your belly, your doctor has flown
in to soon operate;
you'll see how much freight
it's been carrying when it goes down!

[Larry]

When you're carrying down it just goes
everywhere, that includes up your nose
which may bring on a sneeze
that knocks you to your knees
but when stuffed in a pillow, you'll doze.

[Alan]

When stuffed in a pie- crust, you'll know
That it Dominoes pizza, so
Enjoy pepperoni
Which tastes "macaroni"
No matter what flavour's "to go" !

Alan

[Larry]

When you stuff a pie crust you should know
that you can't over-handle the dough
'cause no matter how moist
your filling, you'll just foist
off a dud and you'll be eating crow.