Limerick, Poetic Form Exercise Options

[JustDaniel]

When you're cutting on marble head stones
pay no mind to the texting from phones
lest you etch it for aye
and the grieving won't pay
for mistakes that they call skull and bones.

[Larry]

Culling skulls and bones, that's a mistake
that some smart anthropologist make
because things like to hide
in skulls of those who died
and you might get a handful of snake.

[JustDaniel]

If the snake in the skull bites your hand
it is easy to misunderstand
the abuse in his youth;
his defense sure will soothe
the jury with witness first-hand.

[Larry]

Injury with a witness at hand
lets your lawyer increase his demand
to the insurance folk
that a million's no joke
like their offer of two or three grand.

[JustDaniel]

If your grandfather offers you two,
ask, Would five be an insult to you?
He is likely to bend,
though he may then suspend
Christmas presents that he'd had in view.

[Larry]

Viewing presents from Christmas he had
tucked away when he was a small lad;
knowing then, long ago,
they were not apropos
and the memories made him feel sad.

[Alan]

an offer of two or three thousand
is enough for him to make a stand
on a moral matter
well, that is just chatter
"My, isn't that two or three ? Grand."

Alan

[JustDaniel]

If you have a grandfather or two
you may have a full picture in view
of life at its best
as his stories attest
to experience you can renew.

[Alan]

experience you can not renew
is vouchsaved to only a few
but those who do get it
will never forget it
thing like, perhaps, a great Irish Stew ?

Alan

[JustDaniel]

If you stew over Irish stew lunch
then you are a grump, I've a hunch.
You should make your own meal
so the cook will not feel
you're ungrateful and withhold your punch.

[Alan]

if you're ungrateful, don't withhold your punch
knock his lights out, or excavate his lunch
he had no right to say
what he did, at end of day
so nail him, with a satisfying scrunch

Alan

[Larry]

With a satisfied crunch, hit the nail.
No, not yours! Where you’re fixing the rail
that broke off late last night
and though you were contrite
she used it for a club. Hurt like hell.

[JustDaniel]

Hurts like hell to be used as a club
so you lie down to get a nice rub,
but the table is hard
and you have to discard
all the plates left from yesterday's grub.

[Larry]

Are grubs lying on yesterday's plates
or perhaps from much earlier dates
for the food is now graced
with some mold that's embraced
what the fly's children regurgitates.

[JustDaniel]

When the fly regurgitates on your young
you should make very sure that their tongue
doesn't touch the wee ball
they find in the hall
'cause it ain't a lot different from dung.

[Larry]

If your dung's a lot different, the cause
could be illness which gives you a pause
when you sit on the pot
and it hurts you a lot
'till you feel you'll need band aids and gauze.

[JustDaniel]

When you think you need Band-Aids and gauze
it's important to check out the cause;
does the blood come from you
or your friend with the flu
who threw up after long ooh's and aah's.

[Larry]

After long ooh's and aah's he threw up
the Chablis he drank cup after cup
then he asked for some more
saying, "I do adore
a wine tasting so don't interrupt!"

[JustDaniel]

Wine tasting? Forgive my disruption;
I'm saving you from its corruption.
You're here to get drunk;
you smell like a skunk,
and now you are near an eruption.

[Larry]

If you're near an eruption, you know
that there's really no place you can go
where safety can be found
you are going to get browned
or be ash from ectoblastic flow.