Limerick, Poetic Form Exercise Options

[JustDaniel]

If you are a cash cow to kin,
how's your heifer think you are doin'?
Does she think you're too easy
or that gifts are sleazy?
Do they end where your will will begin?

[Merlin]

Since my will will begin when I end,
then my willy will no more distend.
No sewing wild rice,
no rocking the gneiss,
time has come when we both shall transcend.

[JustDaniel]

Time has come when my old trance will end
so perhaps I am due to append
to my story of life
filled with folly and strife
I'd not noticed with brain on the mend.

[Larry]

If your brain’s on the mend but you’re not
then I’d say you were going to pot
positive thinking’s moot
if you’re like this old coot
‘cause this body is all that you’ve got.

[JustDaniel]

If this body is all that I've got
then I may as well give up and rot
so composted I could
leave behind something good
like a peach tree or little kumquat.

[Merlin]

A peach tree, unlike little kumquats,
bears fruit that is sweeter than some Scots.
The fuzz is hirsute,
eh, it's not a grapefruit
so enjoy it; this season we've got lots!

[Larry]

First, my answer to Daniel which I didn't post in time:


If a little kumquat or peach tree
grew upon the small plot where you’ll be
laid to rest, would that fruit
ever make folks astute?
Guess we’ll all have to wait here and see.



And then, a continuation of Merlin's post:


Lots of seasons we’ve got to enjoy
with some toys we can always employ
to have fun with the guys
drinking beer, telling lies
and there’s always some game to destroy.

[JustDaniel]

Guess you'll all have to wait here and see
if the game is destroyed eating me;
then the critters and I
will continue to lie
here together and rot, feeding trees!

[Larry]

Here together to write freeing trees
from a fate worse than death is our geas.
Though recycled, decay
will take paper away
but the net will eternally please.

[JustDaniel]

I have met and internalized peas
and my legumes and rice, if your please,
even carrots and greens
and have watched fats and leans.
To lose weight must I join amputees?

[Merlin]

If you join Am Putee to lose weight,
you will first need a small dinner plate
and a bowl for a salad
so you won't be invalid;
enjoy the fine meal till you're sate!

[Larry]

Again, too late so I'll post the answer to Daniel's:

Two loose weights joined with putty’s a must
which you raise overhead with great trust
and then down to your loins;
it just takes a few coins
to make muscles of steel that won’t rust.

and then continue on with the continuation of Merlin's:

Sated on a fine meal you enjoyed
because once, out of work, you’re employed
and can now make some money
for you and your honey
so your lunch will make her real annoyed.

[JustDaniel]

... so again I'll combine response to both of your pieces:

You're annoyed that your lunch-roll was real
and could turn rusty muscles to steel?
It's okay to get healthy
and fine to be wealthy.
Does none of that have an appeal?

[Merlin]

A nun heard a peal of a bell
while she nibbled her lunch in the dell.
She downed her red wine
which tasted real fine
but her breath had that tattle-tell-smell.

[Larry]

Cattle tell with a smell of herd breath
that the trail they are on leads to death
so they stampede and run
before they’re on a bun
after losing their head like Macbeth.

[JustDaniel]

If McDonalds would take off your head
it is best that you stay out of bed
'cause you may not arise;
dropping guard is unwise
lest you end in the grinder instead.

[Merlin]

At the end stood a lone organ grinder
with a monkey that cranked on the winder.
They played honky tonk,
and some more tonky honk
for the folks who would listen – well, kinder.

[JustDaniel]

kindergartners quite clearly won't listen
to a lecture on plain long division
but given a chance
they will join in a dance
and will end it with huggin' an' kissin'

[Larry]

Again, too late or just slow.

Merlin's ending:

You are kinder to folks who are lis’nin’
than the ones who walk by, they are missin’
Stradivarius play
and they all want to pay
because on that street corner, eyes glisten.


And then Daniel's:

Endings with hugs and kisses is nice
but I've seen that old show once or twice
so I'd like a good fight
'ere they turn off the light
and the make-up sex might lead to rice.

[JustDaniel]

... and once again I combine the responses into one:

Gazing eyes on the street corner drizzle
at the make-up sex up there with grizzle
in the window above --
something other than love
but with action that's just short of sizzle.