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Now my attempt at a bad pun... There once was a man from Kentucky Who married a woman quite plucky When asked how she managed To lose so much poundage She said it was nip and a tuck-y or with an alternate last line: There once was a man from Kentucky Who married a woman quite plucky When asked how s...

pheeweed wrote:
There once was a mean little kitty
Whose hunger was not very pretty
For food she would beg
By biting my leg
Did I feed her? Not one itty bitty

A little background on this limerick: After 2 days of watching my husband stare at the bookshelves, I decided he wasn't trying to pick out a book. It seems Stephen King's new novel is over 1,000 pages and he was worrying about where we were going to put it, and that we would have to totally rearrang...

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Oh, snap. I was writing by "ear" and just now counted my syllables. I see I have one too many in the last line of both limericks! (edit to say - "Oh, snap." isn't in my usual vocabulary, but I'm watching "My Name Is Earl" - Joy says it all of the time, and it must have ...

Here are a couple originals (finally) for my homework. Writing limericks is a great poetry (and brain) exercise! There was an old man from McDonough Who once nodded off in the sauna When he finally awoke What he saw made him choke He was sure he had turned part iguana (to make the meter work in the ...

While I work on my own homework, here's one I hear at the beach: (warning: rated PG) A marvelous bird is the pelican His mouth can hold more than his belly can He can hold in his beak Enough food for a week And I don't know how in the h--- he can I haven't counted the syllables, but it sounds like a...

Yay EVERYONE!

beff wrote:because... sometimes it snows in Arizona..

Kim might call that a "Black Swan Event".

BIG 's here reading this winner's list. Congrats everyone. Special shout out to my "church girls" Mari and Leah!!! WOOO HOOOO!!!!!!

Good one, Shelley! I was going to write one about him, but there's not much to rhyme with "Heene" except a naughty-ish word. You got around that very well! Besides, I wouldn't have known who "Heene" was. I instantly recognized "Balloon Boy's dad" tho. :) I having SUCH ...

A question (not poetry related) - I've discovered I use the word "just" a LOT. Would the last line of "Tidy Bowl Man" be better without it? Or substitute "merely"? (I've started doing that sometimes.)

I like the short poems. :D This is a new one for me. But then, most all of the poetry forms will likely be new ones for me. :lol: Here are my first ever attempts at Clerihew: Charles Dickens – His name a writer’s heart quickens Reading his work, though, is another thing entirely His prose tends to g...

Happy dances all around!!



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lol the metaphor wasn't as clear as my other one. Tough to do with such a low word count. It was supposed to be written from the POV of a Japanese man who has lost his daughter in the atomic blasts that ended world war two. Oh, how beautiful! I puzzled over it for a while last night. This answer wa...