Limericks yet
There are about 50 limericks in my notebooks, nearly all of them offhand and occasional. Here’s half a dozen to give you the idea.
WRITER’S BLOCK
When I’m sent to the block, Ralegh said,
will I really and truly be dead?
Is the axeman the end?
or when wanting a friend
can I sit here and talk to my head?
2002
Upon the Famous
ROUNDBALL MATCH
recently play’d at LONDON
What a Spectacle! Top of the Pole!
And CHELSEA so bold, on the whole!
with Thrills and Sensations
and swift Penetrations
and ARSENAL with SEAMAN in Goal!
2002
If you haven’t seen the SF classic The Day the Earth Stood Still then this may even less sense than usual.
KLAATU
‘Klaatu, you’re so hard and so taut!’
she cried, ‘You’re just perfect, old sport!
Though, why do you grind
every time from behind?’
‘Well, it’s actually me,’ murmured Gort.
2002
This was written for a Challenge (What words of consolation can you offer an aborted foetus?) and won me my only MID in Pffa -
FOETUS
Now, foetus, no need to act surly -
just give us a smile, sweet and pearly.
As we all must, my friend,
you have reached the far end
and won gold stars for getting there early.
2004
From NaPo 2006, where some deemed at least one cat poem compulsory -
CAT POEM
You want French? If you know where you’re at,
the puss, in that tongue, is a chatte;
but to finish this lay,
when the vice is anglais
then a flail o’ nine tail is a cat.
2006
THE RICH
The rich on us all love to trample
made bold by their bill-i-ons ample;
but hard as they try
there are things they can't buy
and one day I may find an example.
2006
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Nothing better than a clever
Nothing better than a clever limerick. Let's have the next fourty-four,
and then fifty more. Bravo!