IN CASE YOU’D WANT TO KNOW….!
WHAT’S A LIMERICK?*
(Using five examples)
Limericks are fine
To say what to say in good time…
In lines of five
Subjects come alive,
For poetry that’s a good sign.
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Limericks, made to be quick
With intrigue, soon become thick…
As designed
Appropriately timed
Before the Reader feels tricked!
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THE PENTATETTE* uses “twat”
To describe those organs we’ve got…
Between the legs
That often beg
For some action, that’s what!
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Sonnets run fourteen lines,
Excessive in the best of times…
An acquired taste
Not given to haste,
Limericks are not so refined.
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Limericks sometimes are bawdy,
Without going into the tawdry…
Open inspection
Of certain complexion,
SOME limericks tend toward the naughty!
–Jonathan Caswell
* A more complete definiton…and lots more examples…available at http://www.limericks.org.
By the Mighty Mumford 