One Headache of an Acrostic Limerick
As I’ve mentioned before, I enjoy the challenge of writing acrostic limericks. But I found the latest acrostic limerick prompt from Acrostic Only to be tougher than usual. Here’s what I came up with:
One Headache of an Acrostic Limerick
By Madeleine Begun Kane
Pleasant dreams are quite hard to secure
On nights when you have to endure
Unspeakable noise:
Next door neighbors with boys,
Deaf’ning dogs, and the parents on tour.
Tags: Acrostic Poems, Animals Poetry, Badly Behaved Children, Child Humor, Dogs Verse, Headaches Humor, Insomnia Verse, Noise Humor, Noisy Neighbors, Pets Verse, Sleep Poetry
hope the parents come home soon eh? hope they quiet down for you…so the POUNDing goes away
that cannot be fun call the cops woman! I am old and cranky I say call the coppers!
Thanks for your concern Brian and Amanda, but this limerick is fiction. :)
Love it! It inspired me to write one. Quite the challenge.
Hehe. Very cute. :)
That can be aggravating, I’m sure.
Madeleine, sounds like you’re an apartment dweller. Last week, the teens climbed the fence for an impromptu, beer-binge swim in the community pool. Now that’s a bit much… but Lex slept right through it! LOL, loved this because I can relate! Amy
normal is
Thanks everyone for your nice words about my limerick and for your sympathy. However, I live in a house near reasonably quiet neighbors and am not suffering from the noise I describe here. The tale I tell in this limerick is made up and wholly fictitious to fit the POUND acrostic limerick prompt.
But I do thank all of you for your sympathetic words. :)
POUND, yes! Your limericks are a rare find among the many. The Acrostic like today is a bonus. Btw, your haiku posted in the ‘comments’ in SHW is a gem. Difficulties in postings sometimes happen to me also.
Hank
I can relate absolutely…
hibernation revisited
Mad, I love the way your limericks flow. A couple of your contributors are very fluid also but yours seem so effortless and easy.
and by ‘easy’, I mean easy to read, with no question as to which words to stress. I know they’re not always easy to write.
Great wordplay, even with the barking dogs and untamed boys!
I’ve been there! Feel better soon.
Aggranoying for you, but at least you made a good poem from it!
what a fun word play.
it is fundamental and unique.
I wonder if we are neighbors? neighbors gone, dogs outside every night. barking begins at around 11:00 p.m. and doesn’t stop till morning. Are dogs nocturnal?
anyways…love it!
hope you get some peace.
Pat professed that he loved an Israeli
“Oi propose to that girl almost daily!”
Under sway of the brew
Nagged her, “What must Oi do?!”
” Darling, snip the tip off your shillelagh.”
Thanks Roscoe for your limerick. And thanks everyone for your kind comments.
Everyone can relate to this situation immediately :) Been through that too!! :D
You did it so well thought. Loved this.
Funny stuff. This Friday Funny thing is made to order for you!
Brilliantly written. Loved it.
Now that’s funny, but difficult at the same time
superb piece of writing..
thanks for sharing.
:)