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Re: Limericks
« Reply #28 on: February 02, 2011, 12:00 PM »
here I sit, alone
came here to write a poem
now I am broken hearted
even my dog and I parted
guess I just take my heart and go home

        :poet


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Re: Limericks
« Reply #29 on: February 02, 2011, 12:49 PM »
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Re: Limericks
« Reply #30 on: February 04, 2011, 10:40 AM »
This winter will never leave
The roads are beginning to heave
The ice it won't go
There's always snow
World-warming I just don't believe




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Re: Limericks
« Reply #31 on: February 04, 2011, 11:44 AM »
Snow in the States, Tropical Storm in dropbear land
if anybody can make sense out of it, I can't
In Holland - no winter weather here -
more Autumn when Spring should be getting near
Maybe its Nature's showing us where we stand
 
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Re: Limericks
« Reply #32 on: February 04, 2011, 12:28 PM »
I would be remiss as poetry director if I didn't jump in here and remind folks that there is a specific pattern to a limerick. The meter of a limerick is just as important, if not more so, as the words.
The rhyme pattern is a a b b a. Most have that correct, but the meter is off. Lines 1, 2 and 5 must contain 3 beats and lines 3 and 4 have only two beats.

For example.
This winter will never leave a / 3 beats
The roads are beginning to heave a / 3 beats
The ice it won't go    b / 2 beats
There's always snow  b  /  2 beats
World-warming I just don't believe

The sing-songy quality is the fun of limericks.


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Re: Limericks
« Reply #33 on: February 04, 2011, 05:28 PM »
Personally spoken I admit my last Limerick was a poor one   :poet

and may I add to the Poetry Director lines that a Limerick also should have a Geographic reference(normally a city name) in the first line and most of times have a fun subject with a "twist" in the last line.

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Re: Limericks
« Reply #34 on: February 05, 2011, 10:57 AM »
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« Reply #35 on: March 08, 2011, 01:35 AM »
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Re: Limericks
« Reply #36 on: March 08, 2011, 07:27 AM »
 *hehe* how we have all missed you
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Re: Limericks
« Reply #37 on: March 08, 2011, 09:12 AM »
 :tongue :comfort :kool *hehe* *rofl*

That really is a good one Mystic1 !!

Good to see you around again...hope you're doing well(under the circumstances...)
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Re: Limericks
« Reply #38 on: March 23, 2011, 05:07 PM »
Mystic,

That is a good one.  Been revised a few times to allow for geographic orientation.

On the chest of a barmaid in Sale,
Were inscribed all the prices of ale
And on her behind
For the sake of the blind
Was the same information in Braille

I don't know where "Sale" is.
Then there's, "On the chest of a barmaid from Yale....
One version by someone who couldn't tell fish from cities...."On the chest of a barmaid from whales...ales."

Been making the rounds since 2002, which just goes to show a good joke never grows old.

Regards,
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Re: Limericks
« Reply #39 on: March 24, 2011, 11:43 PM »
HaHa a really funny one G and Bill.
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Re: Limericks
« Reply #40 on: May 24, 2011, 06:46 PM »
A caterpillar on a beam,
blowing off some steam:
"I feel kinda strange,
about all this change
I even could fly in my dream!"
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Re: Limericks
« Reply #41 on: May 26, 2011, 11:15 PM »

clever one Dutch...very original, I like it  :coffee
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