All right you St. Patrick's Day loving people. Write me a limerick! I will be giving something fun away for the best one. I may even have you vote! We'll see. Anyone can play. I found this great
website on limericks that you can go to, but here's a great taste of what you'll see.
| Limericks by Edward Lear from A Book of Nonsense |
Form of Poetry? Limerick Poems? Limericks the genre?
The form of poetry referred to as Limerick poems have received incredibly bad press and dismissed as not having a rightful place amongst what is seen as 'cultivated poetry'. The reason for this is three-fold: The content of many limericks is often of a bawdy and humorous nature. A Limerick as a poetry form is by nature simple and short - limericks only have five lines. And finally the somewhat dubious history of limericks have contributed to the critics attitudes.
 | | Limerick
There was an Old Man with a beard,
Who said, 'It is just as I feared!
Two Owls and a Hen,
Four Larks and a Wren,
Have all built their nests in my beard!' | Limerick
There was an Old Man in a tree,
Who was horribly bored by a Bee;
When they said, 'Does it buzz?'
He replied, 'Yes, it does!'
'It's a regular brute of a Bee!' | | | Limerick
There was an Old Man of Kilkenny,
Who never had more than a penny;
He spent all that money,
In onions and honey,
That wayward Old Man of Kilkenny. | Limerick
There was an Old Man with a flute,
A sarpint ran into his boot;
But he played day and night,
Till the sarpint took flight,
And avoided that man with a flute. |
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Let the fun begin!
Happy Stampin'!
Linda:)
