Your Favorite Limmerick

[GenesisOne]

I've seen haikus, free verse poems, and pentamic ones, too.  However, when it comes to sheer potential for comic amusement, there's nothing (well, nothing I can think of, anyway) that tops the tried and true poetry form called... the limmerick.

Hey, if you got something good, put it up.  It doesn't even have to be Chrono related.

Every wildfire needs a good ignition source. If this one won't do it, maybe someone else's will.

A bather whose clothing was strewed,
By winds that left her quite nude,
Saw a man come along,
And unless we are wrong,
You expected this line to be lewd.

Like the bulls of Barcelona, let's open the gates and let hilarity ensue.

[V_Translanka]

There once was a man from Nantucket...

er, wait, should we keep these clean...? Hell, I bet we could come up with a list of favorite limericks that have that line in it...

[GenesisOne]

Yeah, let's at least try to keep them clean.

On the other hand, my first one wasn't all that G-rated in the first place.  Round two.

A macho young swimmer named Dwyer,
Really liked playing with fire.
One night in the dark
He swam with a shark,
Now his voice is two octaves higher.

That's better.  Or, if you were looking for something Chrono related, try this one.

There once was a kingdom called Zeal
Which had such magical appeal
Their Mammon Machine
Made Lavos turn mean
And now it resides in the sea(l)

Okay, so I couldn't rhyme the last part without cheating.  Points for trying.

[Truthordeal]

I wrote this one last summer, in a fit of boredom. I honestly don't think it is that great, but some of the people at FP about pissed themselves, so I figured I'd give it a shot.


A conversation between two people:

"Poetry for me is very sublime

That's why it hurts when you can't make a rhyme

You see, the phrase to 'begin'

Does not rhyme with liken"

"Dude, shut up and quit wasting my time"

And here's one a bit more fitting.

A disgusting young man named McGill
Made his neighbors exceedingly ill
When they learned of his habits
Involving white rabbits
And a bird with a flexible bill

[V_Translanka]

What exactly is the rule to making a limerick anyway? Seems like we should get that down so everyone knows...Is it just an AABBA poem...?

[Truthordeal]

Limerick: 5 lines, AABBA, humorous, anapaestic or amphibrachic meter.

English nerd, am I.

[Radical_Dreamer]

Now John at the bar is a friend of mine
And he gets me my drinks for free
And he's quick with a joke
Or to light up your smoke
But there's someplace that he'd rather be

[KebreI]

Now John at the bar is a friend of mine
And he gets me my drinks for free
And he's quick with a joke
Or to light up your smoke
But there's someplace that he'd rather be

Always been fond of that one.

[GenesisOne]

Syllable-wise, the standard limmerick is 9-9-5-5-9.
Variations include 8-8-6-6-8-8, 9-9-6-6-9-9, or even 8-9-6-6-8.  So many possibilities...  

But enough of that. Let's at least try to keep it down to PG-13.  Round three.

A princess named Marle once fled
to the fair to have fun, but instead,
she bumped into a boy
whom she thought was quite coy,
but really, he just bruised his head.

How do I always end up with Chrono related material in such posts?