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Funny Limerick Poems:
The Poet’s View
Funny limerick poems are both an art and a science. Mostly, they are born from the early reading habits of the limericist.
Challenge: Working Within the Paradigm
Meter
The meter of limerick
poem
Hearkens back to the Zen
of a koan
If it's good, then your
pittance
Will read like a
sentence—
Concise–with
dry wit overtone.
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Challenge: Limericks About
Limericks
Just Five Lines
Limerick poets agree
Five lines are not much.
Quality,
Going by the textbook,
Demands there's a "hook"
And a perfectly metered
strophe.
Thank You, Sister Mary
Leo (All Was Not for Naught)
While a child, Sister
Mary Leo
Taught piano to me. Even
though
I did not practice much
Still, her efforts were
such
That I hear meter
fortissimo.
Beware the Limerick
The limerick amusing and
charming
May also be sometimes
disarming.
And before it is through
It may poke fun at you
And the feeling can be
darn alarming.
Martha Long
Though a limerick may
seem to be light
And the verse and the
rhythm are tight,
And the format is clear
But the message, my
dear,
May be sharp as an arrow
in flight.
Martha Long
As they say, the child is mother to the woman, and some children read by flashlight under the covers.
Reading By Flashlight
The parent who one day
discovers
His(her) child reading under the covers
By dint of flashlight
You've done something right
Such children become language lovers.
When is a limerick not a limerick? When it's a limerick parotic!
Challenge: Examples Of LimerickPoems
Everybody Can Do Something
What an ungratefulwretch I would be
To look down on the giftgiven me
By my Muse or my God
It's the path that Itrod.
Still, I've got a skill,fortunately.
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