Limerick, Poetic Form Exercise Options

[JustDaniel]

When white foam on your beach stays around
it is useless to try to surround
it to move it away
so that you can play,
'cause bubbles will stick to the ground.

[Larry]

Will a stick cause the ground to bubble?
If it does, better run on the double
‘cause it might be crude oil
or some waterlogged soil
from a sewer back-up. You’re in trouble.

[JustDaniel]

If your suitor backs out, you're in trouble
and he'll certainly blow out your bubble.
You can find a good guy,
and a new house he'll buy...
but walk slowly; it all could be rubble.

[Larry]

If the rubble where you slowly walk
had a mouth and was able to talk
about its history
there’d be no mystery
why each hole should be filled with some caulk.

[JustDaniel]

If you just fill the holes up with caulk
it will not help the cracks in your walk
nor the rotting wood doors
or the old, sagging floors;
before long all your neighbors will talk.

[Larry]

If your neighbors all talk, before long
you may think that they sing the same song
but with gossip they'll change
all the news; rearrange
everything that is said. They're all wrong!

[JustDaniel]

Folks are wrong about everything said
when they gossip ere going to bed;
when they wake up, their tune
could be changed before noon.
Don't let their fool words twist your head.

[Larry]

Let the fool twist your head with a word
even if what he's saying’s absurd
and get what you deserve
if you don’t have the nerve;
you’ll just be one more sheep in his herd.

[JustDaniel]

If you dare be a sheep that is heard
you will find that your goal is absurd;
all they'll hear is your "Baa"
and they'll "Humbug" the law:
if you keep your head, still you'll be sheared.

[Larry]

If you sheared your head you can still keep
all the hair that was cut in a heap
so when you're feeling moot
you can weave a hair suit
but some people may think you're a creep.

[JustDaniel]

If you're creepy, some people will think
that you've likely had too much to drink.
If you say you have not,
you affirm what they've thought;
no more putt on all-fours on the links.

[Larry]

There's a putz on the links with all fours
who takes mulligans which he adores
so on holes with par threes
he'll just swing for the trees
'cause he already wrote down his scores.

[JustDaniel]

If you readily write out your scores
to compose songs that your fans adore
you could make a good buck
unless you're a schmuck
and run off with your friend's paramour.

[Larry]

With a pair or more friends, you run off
wearing clothes that are easy to doff
and go out to a beach
where the doctor can’t reach
anything and then tell you to cough.

[JustDaniel]

When you cough without anything on
you'll be careful who you spit upon
or you'll ne'er get in bed
with her, and will instead
be alone through the night and beyond.

[Larry]

If alone through the night and you yawn
does that mean you weren't able to con
any girls you had green
and a well tuned machine
but they knew you had just mowed the lawn.

[JustDaniel]

You can tell when I've just mowed the lawn;
there is dirt that is well-spread upon
every inch of my body --
you might say I'm soddy! --
'til I shower and a bathing suit don.

[Larry]

If you don bathing suits in the shower
you must plan being there for an hour
or much more so don't think
that some things will not shrink
and look like a bud before the flower.

[JustDaniel]

If your shower bud blooms like a flower
let us hope you'll not stay for an hour
lest he's petaling goods
that he's grown in the woods
to seduce you... and then overpower.

[Larry]

If seduced, overpowered and thin
I'd suggest that you need to begin
going down to the gym
so you can defeat him
when he tries anything that's a sin.