Limerick, Poetic Form Exercise Options

[Alan]

Four-and-twenty blackbirds (not crows !)
Performed for the public - all shows
Listed under COOKERY
Then back to the rookery
Why ? Well, cuz - simply no one knows !

Alan

[JustDaniel]

What pie did he bake? Ask your nose
if at least it's familiar; who knows?
If the filling is apple
you will then have to grapple
with stealing a piece; one slice shows!

[Larry]

One slice shows when you're stealing a piece
and the punishment will not increase
if you take the whole pie.
When your mother asks why,
tell her "If it was bad, you would cease."

[JustDaniel]

If you cease when the pie crust is bad
won't your holiday family be sad
that they'll no longer taste
what they love, 'cause your haste
made it crumble? Who cares, Mom?! Egad!

[Larry]

Mommy gagged who made crumbles. She cares
about pie being dropped on her chairs
which were covered in silk.
Her desserts, served with milk,
come with warnings and multiple stares.

[JustDaniel]

If you're staring at multiple barns
then you're likely to listen to yarns
about farmers and such
who have planted 'midst much
of the problems about which they're warned.

[Larry]

They all warn about problems we face
and demise of the whole human race.
I was taught long ago
that nobody will know
of that time. We all live by His grace.

[JustDaniel]

We are living by grace, biding time
'til He comes in whatever the clime;
so we patiently wait
and we'll not underrate
the days we have left, though we're primed.

[Larry]

The prime days we have left are now through
but the thoughts of past years we eschew
for each memory stays
'till the end of our days
and we hope all our dreams have come true.

[JustDaniel]

Though her dreams haven't come true 'til now,
I'm not sure I can till with a plow.
If our son cannot plant
then the crops will be scant;
making hay may be all 'twill allow.

[Alan]

Using hay is officially banned
foundations built on nothing but sand
If you can't build on stone
You have nothing to own
Ask 3rd piggy - he had it all planned

Alan

[JustDaniel]

If your plan says you must ask a piggy
you should know that it won't be a biggie.
Even if you plant trees,
they will not attract bees.
I'd bet all of the limbs will be twiggy.

[Alan]

If all of your dreams are of Twiggy
For you taste I won't give a figgy
I'm all 'Hertzigova' -
They jiggle all ova
And there's no doubt they are some biggy !

Alan

[JustDaniel]

If you only buy biggie ova
then make us large omelets with clover
or some other greens
with white sprouts of beans,
and we'll earn enough for the cover.

[Larry]

If your earnings don't cover enough
of expenses, you'll think times are tough;
I'd remind you to stay
within means you can pay
and besides, you don't need all that stuff.

[JustDaniel]

I don't need all that stuff that's been breeding
inside of my knee and stampeding,
so they're cutting it out
'til there is no doubt
staph is gone and my height is receding.


(Early Thursday morning they'll be removing my right knee implant -- this time the whole thing -- and I'll have a cement spacer with antibiotics inside it for six weeks; then they'll open my knee again and replace the whole joint. This will be the third replacement in that knee. Staph infection is insidious!)

[Alan]

Staph infection is insidious
As well as being inside of us
So try vitamin C
And hey - fiddle dee dee
Bug's life becomes quite invidious

Alan

Dear Daniel,

I am horrified ! So sorry to hear of your knee troubles. This time they MUST do it right. Or do I mean left ?

Love
Alan

[Larry]

An insidious bug becomes quiet
but returns in the dead of the night
so the doc's operate
once again. No debate
where to put that bad knee just for spite.

[Alan]

A knee jerk is for more than just spite
An attempt to fix things - make them right
If doc doesn't do it
Then put knee right through it
Hit the site and he'll be quite a sight !

Alan

[Larry]

He’ll be quiet! His insight of the cite
will most likely leave him too contrite
with the apologies
for installing bad knees
‘cause he’ll be in too much pain to fight.