Limerick, Poetic Form Exercise Options

[JustDaniel]

Diploblastic is one way to flow
in the sea with defenses you know
will leave baddies with sting
while you take to the wing
and escape with your jelly fish glow.

[Larry]

Jellyfish often glow to escape
as the light camouflages their shape
but fish looking for food
say it enhances mood
and assists swallowing as mouths gape.

[JustDaniel]

I can't swallow that fish's mouth speaks
to a writer who knows what he seeks.
I would think that he heard
what he wanted; his word
is quite suspect, and that is so bleak.

[Larry]

What is bleak, I suspect, is that quite
a few animals think we're not right
and we don't understand
their request or demand
and that's why, on occasion, they bite.

[JustDaniel]

If you bite an occasional apple
you will find that it's not hard to grapple
your fiancee's wish
to have tacos and fish
after marrying you in the chapel.

[Larry]

In the chapel, you marry her after
she tells you she's with child 'cause you gaffed 'er;
that won't work now-a-day
because of DNA
and if you don't believe me, you're daft-er.

[JustDaniel]

If Lori reads this limerick after
I post it upon this site rafter
I'll know that she reads
all the junk that our needs
make us write to become even dafter.

[Larry]

To become dafter, we may just write
some sagacious but most often trite
things which pop in our brain
and we seldom refrain
from our sharing them; this is our plight.

[JustDaniel]

It's our plight that we keep sharing rot
and great works that are eas'ly forgot,
so we grind out the glop
hoping something will crop
up that ranks with the great John R. Stott.

[Larry]

John was great so he shot up in rank
but his way with the girls really stank
'till some ladies, abnormal,
told him that their formal
came off with a zipper and yank.

[JustDaniel]

When your zipper pulled off with a yank
it was hard to believe it a prank,
'cause you stood in the lobby
with knees that were knobby
without a withdrawal at the bank.

[Larry]

You withdraw from the bank when without
any funds while you're walking about
but don't ask for a loan,
they won't throw you a bone
unless you are a person with clout.

[JustDaniel]

So you think you're a person with clout?
Go to bat, and you'll see it's about
more that swinging a bat.
See the ball, where it's at
when it moves... and you look like a lout.

[Larry]

If you look like a lout when you move
then you better get into the groove
and take lessons in dance
so your partner won't glance
at some other guys 'till you improve.

[JustDaniel]

If you're looking for guys to improve
as your dance partners, you ought to move
out of 'male' on the chart,
or perhaps you could start
to move from the closet to hoove.

[Larry]

If there's hooves in your closet, then move
to a place where the cattlemen prove
on the range, there's more space
and fresh air will erase
any thought that you lived in the Louvre.

[JustDaniel]

Closet louvers make you paranoid?
Didn't realize you were annoyed
by the cattle that you
thought would fill it with poo
which would ooze out till you were destroyed!

[Larry]

If destroyed and tilled, you will ooze
into soil which the farmer can use
but total sacrifice
will not help you live twice
so you'll sing reincarnation blues.

[JustDaniel]

When you sing in carnations and blues,
won't the stems irritate? ... and those shoes!
Elvis suede's out of date
and the songs on your plate
are as old as the Mohave dew!

[Larry]

In the Mohave, dew won't get old
and may freeze on some nights that are cold
but when hit by sunbeams
they turn all would-be streams
into vapor for saunas I'm told.