Limerick, Poetic Form Exercise Options

[Larry]

You can fly in a really big blimp
over games that are TV exempt
but if you emulate
football moves, I can state
that you’ll probably leave with a limp.

[JustDaniel]

You will probably limp through the leaves
if you get out and roll up your sleeves
helping out on the farm;
you could do some real harm
to yourself... end up petting your peeves.

[Larry]

End up petting your peeves by yourself
while you’re reading strange books from your shelf?
Didn’t mom, in your youth,
tell you don’t? It’s the truth!
They’ll fall off and you’ll sing treble clef.

[JustDaniel]

If you sing treble clef when they fall,
they fall UP if they hit in the ball!
If they fall on your head
you may likely be dead
in which case you'll sing nothing at all.

[Larry]

If you’re singing nothing then the case
with your lyrics, each rhyme’s out of place
though you speak, with the beat,
words I wouldn’t repeat;
it’s not music, there isn’t a trace.

[JustDaniel]

If your music has nary a trace
of logic, you're in the right place
for emotions to soar;
toss your mind out the door;
kick your lyrics to deep outer space.

[Larry]

Kicked those lyrics to deep outer space
with the two Voyager’s speedy pace
but when aliens bring
tickets for littering
there’ll be fines for the whole human race.

[JustDaniel]

It is fine for the whole human race
to evolve to a far better place...
if they really could chew
what they've bit off to do;
it's more likely they'll end in disgrace.

[Larry]

In disgrace they will most likely end
for the politicians you may send
to that hill in D. C.;
they can’t ever agree
on much else but the money they’ll spend.

[JustDaniel]

In disgrace they will most likely end
for the pols that your voting may send
to that hill in D. C.;
they can’t ever agree
on much else but the money they’ll spend.

It's their end to spend all of our money
while gathering their milk and honey
to take home and horde,
collect room and board
then starve us while we dress in gunny.

[Larry]

Dressed in gunny they starve us a while
but we’ll manage to sit here and smile
as we show up to vote
then we’ll empty their boat
and the worst ones will be put on trial.

[JustDaniel]

When the worst ones at last come to court
we're amazed that they still have support
and the public enjoys
how each lawyer employs
precedents with the truth they distort.

[Larry]

They distort presidents with a truth
filled with innuendoes; it’s uncouth
that comedian jerks
and the media lurks
in lie’s shadow like unruly youth.

[JustDaniel]

Lie in shadows like unruly boys
to make fun of someone with their ploys
picking traits perhaps strange
that he'd rather not change,
and that's just what their egos annoys.

[Larry]

Is it just that their egos annoys
or is fortune what galls them and cloys?
Sour grapes it might be;
he’s not in their party
and besides, he has much better toys.

[JustDaniel]

Yes, his toys are much better, for sure,
and their jealousy just can't endure
having him so well off,
so they're all quick to scoff
him; it shows they're not very mature.

[Larry]

It shows that they’re not very mature
when they constantly feed us manure
which they scrape from their shoes;
they’ve got nothing to lose
because that biased press will endure.

[JustDaniel]

No, our press has no bias at all;
they just write about lies that are tall,
then repeat them each day
in a new kind of way
till the crap all come out with a drawl.

[Larry]

Till the crap that comes out with a drawl
when you say to your cows, “C’mon Y’all”.
Sitting on my John Deere
which I leave in first gear
and I don’t have to wade through their stall.

[JustDaniel]

If you wade so your John Deere won't stall,
you'd be better off riding, and haul
the old thing to the shop
since it's needed to crop
all your fields for the coming of fall.