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Next!!! Limericks & Anapestic Meter...

Nan

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Member Seraphic

since 1999-05-20

Posts 21191
Cape Cod Massachusetts USA

0 posted 1999-11-30 06:52 AM

There once was a girl from Nan's Tucket
Ate scallops and clams by the bucket
With summer her cheer
Y'all stay 'way from here
You know this is really MY Tucket....

Limericks are pretty easy and fun - Anapestic meter is the challenge...
Have we any takers???

jbouder
Member Elite

since 1999-09-18

Posts 2534
Whole Sort Of Genl Mish Mash

1 posted 1999-11-30 07:38 AM

Aye ... sign me up lass.

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Jim

"If I rest, I rust." -Martin Luther

Munda
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since 1999-10-08

Posts 3544
The Hague, The Netherlands

2 posted 1999-12-01 01:03 AM

Count me in Nan.

Munda

Justin Thyme
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since 1999-09-13

Posts 216
Oz

3 posted 1999-12-01 04:56 PM

Gotta get in on this one! Never took no poetry classes before. Could I purty please, Miss Teach?

hoot_owl_rn
Member Patricius

since 1999-07-05

Posts 10750
Glen Hope, PA USA

4 posted 1999-12-03 07:48 PM

Me, Me Please....haven't written a limrick since Jr high....won't say how long ago that was....LOL

Kenneth Ray Taylor
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since 1999-11-11

Posts 139
Duluth, Minnesota, USA

5 posted 1999-12-04 08:23 AM

At a local used book store I ran across a fat book entitled "Dirty Limericks." I paged through it and was amazed that people could come up with so many, many dirty limericks. Then I looked at the cover of the book again and realized that I had the title a bit wrong. It actually was "Dirty Limericks, Volume 2." One of my inlaws calls all my poems limericks. None of them actually are. So I'm a little afraid to justify his charge. It's bad enough that I've written haiku!

[Snobby Ken puts his self-important nose in the air.]

Kenneth Ray Taylor
Member

since 1999-11-11

Posts 139
Duluth, Minnesota, USA

6 posted 1999-12-06 08:20 AM

Here's an attempt at a limerick.  It misses the boat in that the first line doesn't rhyme with lines 2 and 5.  But it sounds like a limerick, if you read it right.

Limerick of Lying

The Christ Child lies in a manger.
The President lies under oath.
    Not much common ground
    between them is found
but a Starr to make manifest both.

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