The Limerick lives by its meter
The anapaest really is sweeter
With pluperfect timing
And intricate rhyming
You write about somebody's peter
Or maybe a bottom's appealing
To poets who rhyme with great feeling
They could be quite fickle
And slap and then tickle
To listen to somebody squealing
Some limericks aren't all that dirty
They may be just charming and flirty
But all of the best ones
Are leg ones or breast ones
Or tales of a bad girl called Gertie
It's strange that so formal a verse
That's tidy without being terse
Could fall on the wrong-side
The luridly strong side
Of juvenile humour, and worse!
Please tell me honestly what you think, good or bad.
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this made me chuckle. I don't hear a limerick for years...then 4 come along at once lol.
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sometimes when I'm feeling quite green
the things that I see seem obscene
I thought I would blow it
till I proclaimed me poet
now I say whatever I please!
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Haha.. I loved reading this. It teased a smile from me!
Very well done! An excellent Limerick I must say.
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hahaha!
Your waistcoat is making me blind
But I won't complain coz you're kind
You've joined in Dan's group
So we'll give a whoop
And hope that you like what you find...Boom Boom..Lu
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I understand just what you say
and was reading just the other day
about girls like Gertie
who come on all flirty
who end up in the family way...
I know it was obvious lol...well done Geff...Dan
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When browsing through works on A.P.
"The Limerick" is a must see.
so rise from your slumber
and type in the number
Five-Eight-Five-Six-Seven-Two-Three!
( http://allpoetry.com/poem/5856723 )
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laughing
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But one can have serious Limericks - Aquinas incorporated one into a prayer to be said after Holy Communion.
Sit vitiorum meorum evacuatio,
concupiscentiae et libidinis exterminatio,
caritatis et patientiae,
humilitatis et obedientiae,
omniumque virtutum augmentatio"
And - on a somethat lighter though stll serious note - back in 1987 I "wrote up" the (Ithink) 105th International Astrophysics Conference in a sequence of 26 limericks (one for each letter of the alphabet) which was duly published in the proceedings of the conference. -
Our Jeff who is King of all Rhyme
Writes verses that time after time
Are wholesome and hearty
Not airy or farty
No slant rhyme, 'cos that is a crime!
Nice one!
Sue
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Queen Sue of the happy that's sad
Writes verse that I'd say wasn't bad
And when she is trying
She'll have you all crying
That woman will drive us all mad!
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This made me smile. It's a perfectly metered Limerick and the content is sooo bad! Bravo!
Love,
Amera♥
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Ah now this is better.
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glad to see you commenting again
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Just a little, Sis.
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Hi mate - Lovely - Lovely!
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You always put a smile on my face!
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LMAO well ...
your silly little verse
brought a chuckle to my nurse
but of course
Im rather horse
and this piece made it worse
but really its okay
I like it this way
rather then crying the blues
over a man with butterfly tattoos
I simply want to say
I love you my dear
as I shed another tear
laughing until there is no more
string of words to explore
Well done Jeff, love it and you,
Tory
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