Comments on: Celebrate Limerick Day (and Edward Lear) With A Limerick — Updated with 2nd Limerick

By: Dr. Goose

Dr. Goose — Wed, 12 May 2010 14:10:40 +0000

The limerick started with Lear,
Who could tell us, if he were still here,
That the soul of good wit
Is to carefully fit
In five lines all one needs to make clear.

By: Patty Stewart

Patty Stewart — Wed, 12 May 2010 13:47:52 +0000

There once was a poet from Milwaukee
Whose rhymes were decidedly talky
So she moved to Chicago
And found nothing rhymed there, either.

From “Days of Dante” http://www.key-light.org/dante1.html

By: Rose A. Valenta

Rose A. Valenta — Tue, 11 May 2010 23:46:44 +0000

The help desk is physically in Mumbai
A place once simply called “Bombay.”
The hell does it matter,
Former or latter,
Before its fixed, I’ll surly be gray.

By: Tim Fredriksson

Tim Fredriksson — Tue, 11 May 2010 19:23:13 +0000

You are all clever writers,
funny and creative fighters!

By: KBhattacharya

KBhattacharya — Tue, 11 May 2010 04:03:24 +0000

Limerick Day

A limerick is a poetry trick
That smoothly drops a brick
On the reader’s head
With things rather not said
And then whacks the buttocks with a stick!

We have Ogden Nash whose poetry
Was funny, that we can always see
But the cake
Was his to take
When he said “The puma had no sense of huma”! Gee!
I would like to add, that no limerick
Is complete unless it makes one (sic)
Upbeat that he or she
Would quietly
Become cranky and hit the poet’s belly with a stick!

Like this…

A sophisticated maid from Delhi
You must have heard this, really
One who would fold herself,
And roll into the kitchen shelf
But the credit goes to her garlic mouth and gassing horribly!

Celebrate Limerick Day- On 12 May 2010

By: Jesse Levy

Jesse Levy — Tue, 11 May 2010 03:43:43 +0000

Oh dear oh dear oh dear oh dear
It’s almost the birthday of Mr. Lear
I’m caught short-handed
For here I’m stranded
At my closet with nothing to wear.

By: KBhattacharya

KBhattacharya — Tue, 11 May 2010 03:43:23 +0000

I fear that Dear old Mr. Ed Lear
Was very certain that limericks tear
The muscles of the stomach
Badly tickled, they are racked
And then made to shake with laughter, it is clear!

By: madkane

madkane — Tue, 11 May 2010 02:21:35 +0000

Thanks, Joyce. And Lisa, I sure agree with you about OEDILF. Great organization! I should really starting being active there again … one of these days. :)

By: Carroll

Carroll — Tue, 11 May 2010 01:36:02 +0000

There was a young lim’rck named Limmy
He thought it was better than Icky
Which was quite a shame
For what’s in a name?
He really was awfully picky

By: Lisa Christian

Lisa Christian — Tue, 11 May 2010 01:23:20 +0000

Edward Lear, although first, I find lame.
His lines one and five? Often the same.
In his day it was fine
Now there’s better (some mine!)
O-E-D-I-L-F wins this game.