Limerick, Poetic Form Exercise Options

[Larry]

Merely grounded, you’re sorry and say
that you’ll change how you’re acting today
but the truth of it is
it’s your fault and not his
so your privileges have gone away.

[JustDaniel]

So your privileges have gone away?
For a while, time at home's here to stay.
With those lemons, don't bolt;
it won't be difficult
if you make lemonade; it will pay.

[Larry]

It will pay if you make lemonade
from the lemons you’re given in trade
of the things which you think
you deserve; make it pink
and you’ll sell it before it is made.

[JustDaniel]

When you sell it before it is made
it's like counting on chickens you've spayed
to be laying great eggs;
you'll be living on dregs
and be spending retirement dismayed.

[Larry]

If you’re spending retirement dismayed
when your cash management’s off a shade
and each day’s a close shave
because you didn’t save;
do some cutting. You’ll need a sharp blade.

[JustDaniel]

If you use a sharp blade when you're cutting
it's not likely that you will be putting
on a country club green;
you'll be going between
the soup line and the fish that you're gutting.

[Larry]

Gutting fish when you’re in a soup line
is a strange act before you can dine.
Are you adding raw meat
to that soup ere you eat
which will sicken and make you supine?

[JustDaniel]

Here's an oops! I mistakenly created a loglimerhyme... so I figgered I may as well post it.


If you're planning to sue, why the pine?
There are other trees there in the line
that is blocking your view.
You're an old fuddy-duddy; so chill!
How will you pay the large lawyer bill?
Look around; the sky's blue.

Limerick:

If you're planning to sue, why the pine?
There are other trees there in the line
that is blocking your view.
Best that you tell your crew
not to chop them all down; cut the whine!

[Larry]

Stop the wine or they’ll chop them all down
and have timber enough for a town.
Give the lumberjacks beer
to quench thirsts or I fear
the green forests will be bare and brown.

[JustDaniel]

If they're standing there all brown and bare
where the forest once stood, and folks stare
at their old, scrawny legs
little more now than pegs,
let them go up in flames with a flare.

[Larry]

Let them go up in flames with a flare
for their gross inefficiency there
and when fires are put out
there can be little doubt
we will vote in some folks who may care.

[JustDaniel]

When we've voted in people who care
they begin to see all the crap there
is to get a thing done;
oft you've lost when you've won,
'cause in politics, ain't much that's fair.

[Larry]

Who caused politics not to be fair
when the whole situation up there
was set up where some serve
all the people? The nerve
of those few who now need an Au pair!

[JustDaniel]

One of few who are called an old pair?
Are you frumpy and now have no hair
while your wife's doing fine,
who no one will malign?
Fifty years? people ask, then just stare.

[Larry]

“Fifty years?” people ask then just stare
with suspicion that someone would care
for each other that long
but when love is the song
it is sung until nobody’s there.

[JustDaniel]

If you're singing, and nobody's there
better check close to see if you're bare
standing wet in your tub...
or are you in the club
karaoke night... emptied each chair!

[Larry]

Karaoke night empties each chair
as the crowd gathered there wants to share
a complete lack of voice
so the club had no choice
but to lock the doors, keeping them there.

[JustDaniel]

If they're locking the doors to keep in
everyone who's involved in your sin
could it be you're in hell?
Or perhaps you're not well
but in bed and hallucinatin'.

[Larry]

If hallucinating in your bed
could it be that it’s all in your head
from that fresh mushroom stew
that you ate. I think you
should buy them from the grocer instead.

[JustDaniel]

So you're grocery-shopping from bed
with those sugar-plumb visions in head?
What's the internet charge
when they ship to the barge
where you live? Isn't flooding a dread?