Limerick, Poetic Form Exercise Options

[JustDaniel]

To myself, Wally, Merlin and Larry
add Alan, Syl, Snow; Walt can carry
himself well, while Maggie
and Denis ain't laggy.
Sometimes Fran, always John board Lor's ferry!

[Alan]

WHO DO WE APPRECIATE ?

Sometimes we poets need kicking up bum
to get out cinquains, lims, sonnets and some
other short forms which we know
should please readers who show-
er us with praise. By sucking their left thumb ....

Alan

[Larry]

If by sucking left thumbs you'd appraise
the fine merits of short form and phrase;
then we all, without fail,
would have one soggy nail
from which we could hang all our word plays.

[JustDaniel]

It's from word plays that I'd often hang
myself with my friends. Hunger pangs
once longed for that praise;
it's how I was raised
without it... and finally I sprang.

[Merlin]

Takes more than sucking yer thumb –
perhaps a big bottle o’ rhumb
to bring back the fold,
the young ‘n the old,
to join in this word playing scrumb!

[Alan]

GARRET HERE I COME

So finally I sprang, fully formed,
to muse for no interest; uninformed
was their bored response,
t'was at best nonchalance;
my fortunes for the worse were transformed

Alan

[JustDaniel]

His fortunes with whoring transformed
he rose from those evenings forlorn
to write just for fun
in dark or in sun
for chuckles and jibes with hair shorn.

[Merlin]

Herr Schorn, he was wise as an owl,
a hoot, but his Limericks were fowl.
When he sat in the sun
he would think up a pun
for his readers hoo-ed groan or else growl!

[JustDaniel]

He who'd groan or give hoots to a pun
is likely to work up his own
and throw it back out...
or sit there and pout
that his brain has been fried from the fun.

[Larry]

If from fun your poor brain has been fried
perhaps poltices should be applied
to your neck or your brow
for relief, then somehow
you should leave all the punning aside.

[Merlin]

A fella one day went out punning
and spied a young lass, truly stunning!
When he made an approach
she took off like a roach –
I believe that she never stopped running.

[Larry]

She stopped running but did not believe
my intent was to meet, not concieve;
so with nails, her attack
scratched my face then my back...
now we're married and both of us grieve

[JustDaniel]

Did she mar you or marry you, Larry?
Are her nails still so sharp? Does she harry
you hourly these days?
Yes, persistence pays,
but at this rate she may you soon bury!

[Merlin]

The berry that grows on a vine
gets squished into exquisite wine!
Two bottles per box,
who cares about clocks
on the bare skin with Sweet Adeline!

[Larry]

With sweet Adeline on her bear skin,
we drank wine and ate hot coq-au-vin
but you can't drink red wine
when you're lying supine
on her bear with her bare in the den.

[JustDaniel]

Larry, Merlin and Addie at Denny's
drinking wine, playing poker for pennies
when they ran out of clothes
and bearskins, repose
there au naturel in their tennies.

[Merlin]

Au naturel, out playing tennis
with Adeline, Ella and Dennis,
we worked up a sweat
when along came Annette
who admired my long ichthyornis.

[JustDaniel]

It's sad the old bird's but a fossil.
Annette seemed to think he was docile
but only found bone
when she was alone
in its closet, the contents colossal.

[Larry]

The colossal contents were enclosed
in Merlins sweaty shorts so he posed
but Annette walked on by
to the bench. You know why?
Exercise made her tired so she dozed.

[JustDaniel]

Extra size made her fall in repose;
undertaker just left on her clothes
'cause he had just one day
to put her away.
The county arranged what they chose.