sick of haiku? Try a limerick

[Antarctican]

Your limericks are so off the cuff
It seems that you have the right stuff
To make a bon mot
You rule this thread, Jo
But you fail to post often enough

 

[jocose]

A wedding guest was cross
To hear the sailor’s dross
A tale of thirst
A gunshot burst
And the death of an albatross

 

[LaFoto]

I cannot believe my eyes!
It is Jocose, the wise.
He hasn't been round us
for ages, but found us.
And posts now without a disguise!

 

[jocose]

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Huck he made his slip
Down the Mississip
On a raft with Jim
And the Dauphin
They had an amazing trip

 

[Hertz van Rental]

If Limmericks you would write
You need to keep things tight.
For in five lines
These funny rhymes
Should tell their tale. Alright?

 

[Garbz]

There once was a man named Innes
who had a very big....

And that's about all I could come up with so far.

 

[Hertz van Rental]

I'm still trying to find something that rhymes with 'Nantucket'.

 

[Antarctican]

(bucket, stuck it, pluck it, shuck it, puck hit

)


I can probably come up with a few more, if you want to PM me....

 

[Antarctican]

The Taming of the Shrew

Petruccio married a 'Shrew'
Whose taming he promised to do
'Kate' soon changed her tune,
Claimed the sun was the moon
Methinks 'twas a union to rue.

 

[LaFoto]

Cool one, Anty.

I tried to put "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes" into limerick form but got stranded somewhow. This is where I sure feel my knowledge of the English language is still quite limited! I need a third rhyming word on "detective" :roll: !

 

[Antarctican]

^^^ (Defective, protective, elective, effective, subjective, objective, invective ....)

 

[LaFoto]

Ah! Cool. Can I use one of them then? Let me think.

 

[LaFoto]

Lame, but ...

"The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes"

The well-known and world-famous detective
solved each and every riddle - infective
it was to Watson, his friend,
who somehow never could put his hand
on those crimes, though, and be as effective.

Tough!

 

[jocose]

Romeo and Juliet


Divided by a name
A story of inordinate shame
with poison and knives
that wasted lives
Their deaths were all in vain

 

[blackdoglab]

There once was a photo forum,
which had its own decorum,
when members were bored,
the points they scored,
came from banning the folks in their quorum