Limerick, Poetic Form Exercise Options

[Merlin]

The chose that the county arranged
is always the same, never changed.
Plain simple, not fancy,
no frills, not a chancy
unless you’re a poet – deranged!

[Larry]

The arrangement they chose didn't fill
all the costs. Budgets for that big bill
would not cover de fence
placed within their demense
on which now stood a pyramid hill.


In de range of a poet, useless.
I was seconds behind. What a mess.
Now my post's outa' place
and I've egg on my face
having answered too late, I confess.

[JustDaniel]

I wondered on Pyramid Hill,
who gave deranged poet that pill
that caused him to pall
and fin'lly to fall
down dead ere his cider distilled.

[JustDaniel]

I confess that I'd answered them both
while Larry wrote his second dose
so I'm back again
to our Lim'rick den
and hope that you don't think me loath.

[Merlin]

I hope I don't think cuz it hurts;
when I study, my grey matter spurts!
I’ll say that was cloth,
9:27 fer both.
Now let’s review the Kurtz mini skirts.

[JustDaniel]

I ain't gonna review any mini...
an' most o' them gals is to skinny.
When I'm at the beach
my pad's within reach
fer writin' ~ cain't see, an' ear's tinny!

[Alan]

RHYMEZONE FRAUD EXPOSED

I do hope that you don't think me loath
to respond, gadzooks, by my oath
with lim'ricks that rhyme
I do it all the time
though I'm no Johann Wolfgang von Goethe*

*At least, according to Rhymezone, this IS a rhyme. Who am I to argue ?

Alan

[JustDaniel]

I've never seen Rhymezone before;
it's like a convenience store!
You plug in a word
and out comes a turd*
to lessen bad nerves or despair.

*[which word isn't there!]

[Alan]

Dear Daniel,

I LOVE Rhymezone, it is so full of matches that I use it frequently. It also guides me on to major dictionaries, should I want.

That dreadful rhyme is actually the first time in years it has tricked me !

Love
Alan

[Alan]

To lessen bad nerves or despair
I pretend that all words are there
so if I fall short
and have to abort
well - luckily I already have hardly any hair

Alan

[JustDaniel]

Ol' slightly-haired, jovial Alan
is certainly not here a felon
for his longer last line -
clerihewish in kind -
a gentle, cute kind of rebellion.

[Merlin]

On Rhymezone I found “ichthyornis”,
which worked as a partner to “Dennis”.
Click “words ending in ___" ,
and there, with a grin
are the lot, from menace to Venice!



A very useful site. There's the drop-down menu for various options, and at the bottom of a list you can go to words ending in the last 3 letters of your word, or near rhymes, etc. I use it often.
I'm outa sequins, so jump in wherever!

[JustDaniel]

A gentle, cute kind of rebellion
works well for a Rhymzone-ish hellion
who looks up the words
and won't be deterred
by menacing I'm-gonna-tellions.

[Alan]

By menacing "I'm gonna tell on youse"
he reveals his origin - he's a Scouse
Everton or Liverpool ?
Either way, Reform School
his past just caught up with his nows

Alan

[JustDaniel]

Where youse goin', Adrian?

If his past has caught up with today
you'll find Rocky there too; it's his way
of South Philly talk --
not just on his block
but down Delaware to the Bay.

[Merlin]

What Della wore down to the Bay
was improper, I really must say!
Ken tucked in his shirt,
Arken saw him exert
his ichthyornis that day!

[JustDaniel]

Ichthyorniologically strange
is the proof that you're growing deranged.
Put the bones in the closet
and try not to cause it
to open 'til you've been free-ranged.

[Merlin]

While itching to be on free range,
a chicken-bird thought life was strange
inside a small closet
where every deposit
perfumed like Hong Kong’s stock exchange

[JustDaniel]

Exchanging his large perfumed socks,
poor King Kong was encountered by jocks
who made fun of their smell;
they didn't fare well
when he flung them by their curly locks.

[Merlin]

Curly locks the flung door every evening
to make sure that the chickens aren’t leavening
cuz a runaway chick
would flick Curly’s bic
resulting in grave disbelievening!